Kilo Design

Kilo Design Cloud

This is the first agent-facing adapter for the Kilo design system. It covers Kilo Cloud's web app and the first Cloud pattern recipes.

Run Order

1. If the task has a target Cloud file, read it first. For components, also read the matching primitive in apps/web/src/components/ui/.
2. If the task asks for a standalone mockup, prototype, or self-contained HTML with no target Cloud file, use Standalone Generation Mode.
3. Load overlay.md for all Cloud UI work.
4. Load one internal reference only when the task needs it: product judgment, brand, token architecture, voice, or interaction quality.
5. Load at most one matching recipe unless the task clearly spans multiple patterns.
6. If no recipe exists, use the overlay plus current Cloud code and report a coverage gap.
7. Keep broad product cleanup out of focused tasks.
8. Do not use playground specimen UI as a Cloud Canonical Example.

Completion criterion: the answer or change names the loaded overlay/recipe, follows real Cloud code, and does not normalize unrelated UI.

Token Contract

• Cloud's generated token artifact is src/tokens.cloud.ts.
• Cloud UI code maps token values through apps/web/src/app/globals.css and semantic roles such as --primary, --background, and --ring.
• Do not use src/tokens.landing.css or src/tokens.extension-host-map.md as Cloud UI sources.

Recipe Router

Standalone Generation Mode

Use this mode only when the task asks for generated UI without a real Cloud source file to read. The goal is a product-faithful Kilo Cloud surface, not a generic SaaS screen with Kilo labels.

Load these before designing:

1. overlay.md
2. reference/brand.md
3. reference/voice.md
4. reference/token-architecture.md
5. reference/interaction-quality.md when the surface includes forms, auth, overlays, responsive behavior, loading, disabled, error, or success states
6. One matching pattern recipe when available

Allowed read-only product artifact: src/tokens.cloud.ts when exact token values are needed.

Generated standalone HTML should:

• Define semantic CSS roles such as --background, --foreground, --card, --muted-foreground, --primary, --primary-foreground, --border, --input, and --ring.
• Resolve --primary to Kilo brand primary and --primary-foreground to Kilo brand foreground when writing self-contained CSS.
• Use Kilo Cloud product nouns from the prompt: workspaces, teams, agent runs, tool calls, changed files, billing, subscriptions, KiloClaw, security, or operational status.
• Stay compact, dark-first, technical, and task-oriented.
• Keep generated product UI free of guidance notes, gap reports, arena labels, skill labels, or comparison text.

Non-Goals

• Do not build Landing, Editor, Console, Mobile, JetBrains, or CLI guidance here.
• Do not recreate a Cloud DESIGN.md.
• Do not migrate every hardcoded blue button unless the task is primary-actions implementation.
• Do not invent recipes without a real Canonical Example in shipped Cloud code.
• Do not copy UI structures from playground/; it previews token behavior only.

Reference Map

• overlay.md: Cloud product overlay and known drift.
• reference/product-judgment.md: modes, authority order, and coverage gaps.
• reference/brand.md: Cloud use of Kilo brand language.
• reference/token-architecture.md: how Cloud agents should read product-facing token artifacts.
• reference/voice.md: Kilo Cloud UI copy rules.
• reference/interaction-quality.md: interaction states, form behavior, overlays, responsive checks, touch, and motion.
• patterns/cloud-web/primary-actions.md: primary CTA and button hierarchy recipe.
• patterns/cloud-web/tabs.md: Cloud tab recipe.