use-style

name	use-style
description	Apply named visual style guides to landing pages, app shells, and UI. Use for $use-style, /useskill, list styles, or styles like ios-app, grid, vercel, black-grid, stripe, linear, raycast, gumroad, dusk, or luma.

Load and apply a named style before designing or implementing any UI.

Invocation

• Explicit: $use-style ios-app, $use-style vercel, $use-style black-grid, /useskill list, or "use the grid style"
• Implicit: user references NowStack Mobile, Ink & Spark, an iOS app shell, Expo / React Native / NativeWind app UI, /aiblueprint, /agents, /aibuilder, "grid theme", Vercel, Geist, a minimalist dark tool UI, Stripe / fintech / checkout / dashboard UI, Linear / issue tracker / app-shell sidebar UI, NYT / newspaper / editorial / broadsheet / magazine layouts, Anthropic / Claude / warm cream AI-lab pages, Gumroad / neo-brutalist / loud commerce / bold yellow-pink pages, Raycast / glossy dark / glow gradients / floating glass nav / premium product marketing, Dusk / Attio / dark CRM dashboard floating on a twilight backdrop / blue data viz / colorful category pills, Luma / lu.ma / event timeline / calendar / RSVP / discover / a dark consumer events-and-calendar app with photo-led cards, a top teal aurora, and a white pill button, or TestSprite / TestSpirite / calm light dev-tool dashboard / warm paper canvas with one forest-green accent / grouped sidebar + promo rail / isometric line-art empty states

Parse the style name from $ARGUMENTS or the message. Treat ios, ios app, ios-app, iphone app, nowstack-mobile, nowstack mobile, and ink & spark as ios-app. Treat use-vercel, vercel style, and current vercel as vercel. Treat vercel-simple, old vercel, black grid, and black-grid as black-grid. Treat testsprite, test-sprite, and test sprite as testspirite. Treat luma, lu.ma, and luma.com as luma. Treat list, styles, available styles, and missing style names with no implicit match as a request to list available styles and ask the user to choose before designing. Default to ios-app when the user references NowStack Mobile, Ink & Spark, an iOS app shell, Expo, React Native, NativeWind, or OS-native tabs. Default to grid for Codelynx product landings. Default to vercel when the user references Vercel, the Vercel dashboard, Geist, Vercel's changelog, or black infrastructure marketing with large editorial whitespace. Default to black-grid for austere monochrome developer tools, calculators, indexes, or line-driven data products. Default to linear when the user references Linear, an issue tracker, or a dense sidebar + list + detail app shell. Default to new-york-times when the user references a newspaper, broadsheet, magazine, or serif editorial layout. Default to anthropic when the user references Anthropic, Claude, or a warm cream + serif AI-lab aesthetic. Default to gumroad when the user references Gumroad, neo-brutalism, hard offset shadows, or a loud yellow/pink bordered look. Default to raycast when the user references Raycast, a glossy dark page with glow gradients, a floating glass nav, or premium dark product marketing. Default to dusk when the user references Attio, a dark CRM/data dashboard floating on a twilight/aurora backdrop, vivid-blue charts, or colorful category pills. Default to testspirite when the user references TestSprite, a calm light dev-tool dashboard, a warm paper canvas with a single forest-green accent, a grouped sidebar with a free-trial/upgrade promo rail, or isometric line-art empty states. Default to luma when the user references Luma, lu.ma, an event timeline/feed, a calendar or RSVP/invite app, a discover page, or a dark consumer events UI with photo-led cards, a top teal aurora, and a white pill button.

If the parsed style is list, or if no style can be inferred, do not load a style file. Reply with the available styles table below, add one short line asking which style to use, and stop until the user chooses.

Workflow

1. Read styles/<name>.md from this skill directory.
2. Check for project overrides and prefer them over the portable spec:
   • .agents/styles/<name>.md
   • .agents/styles/<name>-theme.md
   • .agents/styles/<name>-theme-migration.md (migration playbooks only)
3. Treat the loaded style as hard constraints for layout, typography, color, borders, motion, and component choice.
4. Reuse existing primitives. In Codelynx repos, import GridTheme* components from grid-theme-primitives.tsx instead of reinventing patterns.

Available styles

Style	File	Vibe
ios-app	styles/ios-app.md	NowStack Mobile Ink & Spark. iOS/Expo app UI with monochrome ink/paper, one yellow #FFE040 spark, NativeWind tokens, OS-native tabs, flat hairline cards.
grid	styles/grid.md	Blueprint landing. Square geometry, 1px borders, mono data, condensed display type.
vercel	styles/vercel.md	Current Vercel product language. Black canvas, Geist Sans, hairline dashboard structure, dense deployment lists, vast editorial marketing space, restrained semantic color.
black-grid	styles/black-grid.md	Austere monochrome developer tools. Black canvas, Geist + mono, sharp line-defined indexes and calculators, no decoration.
stripe	styles/stripe.md	Stripe fintech UI. Pale #f6f9fc canvas, white cards on soft shadows, blurple #635BFF accent, green CTA, rounded geometry.
linear	styles/linear.md	Linear app shell. Near-black #08090a canvas, dense aligned sidebar + list + detail panes, indigo #5e6ad2 accent, Inter Display headings, quiet line-defined chrome.
new-york-times	styles/new-york-times.md	Print-newspaper editorial. Paper-white, serif headlines (Cheltenham/Georgia), Franklin sans kickers, blackletter masthead, hairline rules, multi-column grid, red/blue accents only.
anthropic	styles/anthropic.md	Warm AI-lab. Cream #f0efe9 paper, bold grotesque sans display + reading serif, clay-coral #cc785c accent, big soft-rounded dark panels, pill buttons. Light marketing + dark Claude app surfaces.
gumroad	styles/gumroad.md	Loud neo-brutalist commerce. Yellow #ffc900 + pink #ff90e8, thick black borders, hard offset shadows , flat fills, bold geometric sans, pill buttons. Light marketplace + dark dashboard surfaces.

Add new styles as styles/<name>.md and register them here.

Output rules

• Match the style vibe precisely. Do not blend with generic SaaS aesthetics.
• Honor the anti-patterns section in the style file.
• When a project spec lists concrete tokens or components, use those over prose approximations.
• For landing pages, scaffold the page shell from the style first, then fill sections.

Related skills

• frontend-design / frontend-skill: general UI craft. Defer to use-style when a named style is requested.
• use-feature: reusable feature and UX implementation patterns that are not visual styles.
• impeccable: polish pass after the style is applied.