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@tryinget/pi-designmd-foundry

Pi extension and skill package for using DesignMD Foundry as a local-first design contract tool surface.

This package does not reimplement DesignMD Foundry. It wraps the DesignMD Foundry CLI so Pi agents can reliably lint DESIGN.md, export design artifacts, generate handoff prompts, import DTCG/Penpot token JSON, parse palette text, and inspect integration readiness.

No harnessed LLM provider is bundled here. Pi remains the agent harness; Foundry remains the design contract authority.

When DESIGNMD_SESSION_ENDPOINT is set, tools also report start/pass/fail activity and generated artifacts into a running DesignMD Foundry Watch Mode session. Reporting is optional and fail-open: tools still work when no Foundry UI/server is running.

• Workspace path: packages/pi-designmd-foundry
• Release component key: pi-designmd-foundry
• Release config mode: component

Tools

• designmd_lint — lint a DESIGN.md file.
• designmd_export — export css, oat, tailwind, dtcg, tokens, agent-prompt, xstate, rive, or json.
• designmd_agent_prompt — convenience wrapper for agent-prompt export.
• designmd_oat_visual_snapshot — generate token-preserving Oat visual snapshot HTML for manual review.
• designmd_openpencil_prompt — build an OpenPencil handoff prompt.
• designmd_openpencil_info — inspect a .fig / .pen file through the verified OpenPencil info adapter.
• designmd_openpencil_lint — lint a .fig / .pen file through the verified OpenPencil lint adapter.
• designmd_openpencil_export — export a .fig / .pen file to svg, png, jpg, webp, or fig; jsx is intentionally excluded.
• designmd_import_penpot — convert DTCG/Penpot token JSON into DESIGN.md text.
• designmd_palette_from_text — parse or apply Pigmnts-style hex palette text.
• designmd_penpot_mcp_inspect — read-only inspect of the active Penpot file through the official Penpot MCP server.
• designmd_penpot_mcp_bridge — plan or explicitly apply one bounded designmd.canvas-bridge.v1 board create/update mutation through the official Penpot MCP server; update selectors only rebuild selected/latest DesignMD bridge boards.
• designmd_penpot_mcp_export — read-only SVG export of an existing DesignMD bridge board through the official Penpot MCP server.
• designmd_session_plan — build or materialize a local designmd.session-plan.v1 Watch Mode planning packet without claiming canonical AK/society authority.
• designmd_session_variants — build or materialize local designmd.session-variants.v1 proposal lanes without claiming accepted durable variants or canonical direction.
• designmd_session_handoff — build or materialize a local designmd.session-handoff.v1 prompt for one executable variant lane without claiming canonical authority.
• designmd_session_guided_run — build or materialize the full local designmd.guided-design-run.v1 loop (plan, memory, variants, handoff, report-back instructions) without executing Pi or claiming canonical authority.
• designmd_session_browser_agent_handoff — build or materialize a local designmd.browser-agent-handoff.v1 prompt for optional browser-side review such as Sitegeist without granting mutation or promotion authority.
• designmd_session_closeout — build or materialize a local designmd.session-closeout.v1 Watch Mode evidence packet without claiming canonical AK/society promotion.
• designmd_session_promotion_candidate — build or materialize a local designmd.promotion-candidate.v1 owner-review packet without promoting, publishing, merging, or mutating AK/society authority.
• designmd_visual_dossier_pi_critique — emit a designmd.pi-visual-dossier-critique-handoff.v1 packet or markdown handoff prompt over validated visual-source dossier state; critique/handoff only, with no dossier acceptance, DESIGN.md mutation, DSPx fitness claim, or AK/society authority.
• designmd_readiness — run DesignMD Foundry's integration readiness probe.

Prompt/export modes are deliberately constrained to the Foundry CLI contract: iterate, remix, expand, or audit.

Skill

Use the skill when doing UI/design work:

/skill:designmd-foundry

The skill instructs agents to lint and export design context before implementation, preserve tokens unless a DESIGN.md change is intentional, and keep external integrations honest about readiness.

Runtime dependencies

This package expects pi host runtime APIs and declares them as peerDependencies:

• @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
• @earendil-works/pi-ai

When using UI APIs (ctx.ui), guard interactive-only behavior with ctx.hasUI so pi -p non-interactive runs stay stable.

Package checks

Run from package directory:

npm install
npm run check

Run from monorepo root through the canonical package gate:

bash ./scripts/package-quality-gate.sh ci packages/pi-designmd-foundry

The generated package-local scripts/quality-gate.sh is a thin wrapper that searches upward for the canonical monorepo root gate. If you validate the package outside the monorepo tree, set PACKAGE_QUALITY_GATE_SCRIPT to the canonical pi-extensions root gate path.

AK task/work-item operations

This package is a monorepo member, not a git root. Use the monorepo-root AK wrapper for task/work-item operations:

# from the monorepo root
./scripts/ak.sh --doctor
./scripts/ak.sh task ready

# from this package directory
../../scripts/ak.sh --doctor
../../scripts/ak.sh task show <id> -F json

Documentation placement

Use:

• docs/project/ for dated RFCs, runbooks, and evidence/progress notes
• docs/adr/ for adopted architecture decisions

Avoid creating new package-local docs/dev/ trees.

Watch Mode reporting

To watch Pi tool progress in the DesignMD Foundry UI, start Foundry and point this package at its session API:

export DESIGNMD_SESSION_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:8788/api/session
# optional existing session override:
export DESIGNMD_SESSION_ID=ses_...
# optional actor label and API token:
export DESIGNMD_SESSION_ACTOR=pi-designmd
export DESIGNMD_SESSION_TOKEN=$DESIGNMD_API_TOKEN

Without DESIGNMD_SESSION_ID, the adapter reuses the current running session or starts a new one. Output-producing tools attach artifacts such as Oat snapshot HTML, agent prompts, CSS/JSON exports, SVG/path metadata for OpenPencil exports, Penpot MCP bridge plans, bridge-apply proof SVGs, read-only existing-board export SVGs, local session plan packets, local session variant lane packets, local session handoff prompts, local session closeout packets, local promotion candidate packets, and visual-dossier Pi critique/handoff packets.

DesignMD Foundry root

By default the extension looks for DesignMD Foundry at:

~/ai-society/softwareco/owned/designmd-foundry

Override with either a tool parameter or environment variable:

export DESIGNMD_FOUNDRY_HOME=/path/to/designmd-foundry

Live package activation

Install the package into Pi from the package directory containing this package's package.json:

pi install /home/tryinget/ai-society/softwareco/owned/pi-extensions/packages/pi-designmd-foundry

Then in Pi:

1. run /reload
2. verify with a real command or tool call from this package

Release metadata

This scaffold writes component metadata in package.json under x-pi-template:

• workspacePath
• releaseComponent
• releaseConfigMode

Use these values when wiring monorepo-level release-please component maps.

Docs discovery

npm run docs:list
npm run docs:list:workspace
npm run docs:list:json

Stack lane companions

This package follows the shared pi-ts lane. Add companions only when they materially improve clarity or reuse:

• fast-check for parser/rendering/selection invariants
• @cucumber/cucumber for executable Gherkin/operator workflows
• nunjucks for reusable text/config/prompt/file templates
• engineering-pi-ts.ts-quality.md when the package explicitly adopts deterministic screening with ts-quality

If this package adopts ts-quality, prefer repo-local rollout truth in docs/project/ts-quality-current-vs-target.md and keep the detailed adoption doctrine upstream in ~/ai-society/softwareco/owned/ts-quality/docs/adoption/.

Copier lifecycle policy

• Keep .copier-answers.yml committed.
• Do not edit .copier-answers.yml manually.
• Run update/recopy from a clean destination repo (commit or stash pending changes first).
• Use copier update --trust when .copier-answers.yml includes _commit and update is supported.
• In non-interactive shells/CI, append --defaults to update/recopy.
• Use copier recopy --trust when update is unavailable (for example local non-VCS source) or cannot reconcile cleanly.
• After recopy, re-apply local deltas intentionally and run npm run check.