brand

Build frontend interfaces for Manzanita Research — warm, editorial, California-rooted design for music tools and brand pages. React + Tailwind. Use when building web components, pages, landing pages, dashboards, plugin UIs, or any web interface for Manzanita projects.

Manzanita Research visual identity tokens — colors, typography, and texture direction. Apply these whenever building any visual interface (web, terminal, print, slides) for a Manzanita project. Other design skills (frontend-design, tui-design) reference this as their brand layer. Use this skill when you need the specific color values, font settings, or visual identity rules for Manzanita Research, even if you're not using one of the design skills.

Write in the Manzanita Research voice — warm, grounded, direct, never corporate. Use for any prose output: READMEs, marketing pages, social posts, changelogs, error messages, UI copy, blog posts, or any text that carries the brand.

Build frontend interfaces with intentional, craft-level design — editorial layout, expressive typography, textured atmosphere, and considered motion. React + Tailwind. Use when building web components, pages, landing pages, dashboards, plugin UIs, or any web interface. For Manzanita Research projects, this skill works alongside brand-tokens for the visual identity layer.

Create or update a PITCH.md — a plain-text pitch for your project that tells the story, communicates the vision, and makes the case. Not a README (that's for users). Not a pitch deck (that's theater). This is the argument for why this thing should exist, written clearly enough that it speaks for itself.

Build terminal user interfaces with craft and intention — information architecture, interaction design, and visual hierarchy in monospace. Go + Bubble Tea + Lip Gloss. Use when building TUI dashboards, interactive CLIs, terminal menus, status displays, or any terminal interface. For Manzanita Research projects, this skill works alongside brand-tokens for the color palette.

Generate image prompts for Manzanita Research hero images. Reads the current repo to infer what the project is, then writes prompts you can paste into Flora or any text-to-image tool. Eco-futurist, feminine, 1980s-meets-2180s California.