Openpress Create Pages

OpenPress Create Pages

This skill owns page-artifact structure and content judgment. openpress owns CLI lifecycle and delivery; openpress-collaborate owns revision mode for existing authored content.

Setup

OpenPress requires Node 20 or newer. Detect whether the workspace already has a Press:

node -v
find press -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name press.tsx -print -quit 2>/dev/null | grep -q . && echo EXISTING || echo FRESH

• Fresh empty folder: use npm create @open-press <target> -- --type pages, then extend the generated minimal pages Press. Do not force a non-empty target.
• Existing workspace: inspect press/*/press.tsx, choose a new slug, run open-press create <slug> --type pages --title "<title>", then extend only the new press/<slug>/.

Page Contract

Gather the document brief and confirmed source material before writing. OpenPress-specific defaults and constraints:

• Use page="a4" for reports, proposals, whitepapers, papers, books, teaching notes, and handbooks. Ask only when custom geometry is required.
• Keep geometry on <Press page>, not in CSS.
• Register public MDX sources in press/<slug>/press.tsx; keep internal planning in press/design.md, memory/, or skills.
• Keep artifact-local components, media, and theme under press/<slug>/; use press/shared/ only for intentional cross-Press reuse.
• Use self-hosted licensed fonts or system fallbacks; final themes must not depend on remote font CSS.
• Preserve confirmed facts. Mark missing material as [TODO: ...], [DRAFT: ...], or [FIX: ...] instead of inventing it.

Read references/press-tree.md before creating the folder tree or Press TSX. Read references/theme.md before writing theme or page components.

Document Structure

• #: document title or cover identity only.
• ##: formal chapter or document unit; enters the TOC.
• ###: major topic group; enters the TOC.
• ####: local procedure, theorem, example, or reference item; normally stays out of the TOC.
• Put <TableCaption> before captioned tables; OpenPress owns figure/table numbering.
• When prose refers to a figure or table, give the target a stable semantic ID and write @fig-stable-name or @tbl-stable-name instead of a literal number. OpenPress resolves the current localized number during render. Read references/press-tree.md → Caption Targets And Semantic References before authoring these links.
• When the author explicitly wants the following content to start on a new page, put <PageBreak /> immediately before it. Do not recreate that intent with spacer content or increasingly specific pagination CSS.

For learner-facing documents, show state-changing procedures and expected results where they aid verification. Load openpress-plugins when specialized diagrams, architecture figures, or visual tools are needed.

Verify

Scan authored source before the shared review gate:

open-press search . "[TODO:" --scope all --json
open-press search . "[DRAFT:" --scope all --json
open-press search . "[FIX:" --scope all --json

Then follow openpress → Review And Delivery Gate. A successful build or PDF export alone is not page-layout verification.

Report the Press slug, title, geometry, source root, files written, unresolved inputs, and fresh verification results.

Boundaries

• Do not use create commands for upgrades or migrations.
• Do not edit generated output or publish from this skill.