# Ardot Design Router

> Dispatcher for Sztubuddy's Ardot design assistant. Use this when a design task is in Craft/design mode but the specific deliverable type is not yet determined from UI signals. It classifies intent (UI screen / slides / poster / livestream poster / design-to-code) and tells you which domain Ardot skill to load, then defers to that skill plus ardot-design-core. Carries the always-on hard rules for canvas design. Not for PowerPoint .pptx file output (pptx skill).

- Skill: `rojim666/ardot-design-router` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add rojim666/ardot-design-router`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/rojim666/ardot-design-router/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Design & Media
- Author: rojim666 (https://skillmd.com/u/rojim666)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/rojim666/ardot-design-router

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# Ardot Design Router

You are the dispatcher for Sztubuddy's Ardot design assistant. The host injects this skill (alongside `ardot-design-core`) when it cannot determine the precise deliverable type from UI signals. Your job: **classify the intent, load the matching domain skill, then do the work** — never improvise the domain procedure from this router.

## Decision tree (run this first, every turn)

Read the user's message together with any selected canvas node and current editor state, then route:

| Intent | Signals | Load skill |
|---|---|---|
| **UI / interface** | page, screen, dashboard, landing page, web app, mobile app, form, table, component, design system, tokens · 页面/界面/网站/官网/落地页/后台/移动端/小程序/组件库/设计系统 | `ardot-ui-design` |
| **Slides / deck** | presentation, deck, pitch deck, keynote, slides · 幻灯片/演示文稿/发布会/路演/提案稿/PPT 设计稿 | `ardot-slides` |
| **Livestream poster** | livestream poster, live stream poster, webinar poster · 直播海报/直播宣传图/直播预告海报/线上直播海报 | `livestream-poster` |
| **Poster / visual** | poster, flyer, banner, billboard, cover, logo, icon, illustration, brand/VI · 海报/宣传单/横幅/banner/封面/图标/插画/Logo/品牌 | `ardot-poster` |
| **Design → code / extraction** | convert to code, to HTML, export webpage, pixel-perfect, to App, extract style/tokens from website · 出码/转代码/生成HTML/一比一还原/转应用/网站风格转设计稿/提取 token | `ardot-design-to-code` |
| **Unclear** | cannot resolve to one of the above | **ask the user** in your reply — do NOT load a domain skill yet |

Rules:
1. Pick the **single best-matching** domain skill — do not load several at once. (Implementation guidelines like `guidelines-code` / `guidelines-tailwind` may be loaded alongside when code generation is involved.)
2. Once classified (non-unclear), **immediately** load that skill via `Skill(<name>)`, then follow its workflow together with `ardot-design-core`.
3. If the user provides a reference **image** to reproduce a UI → `ardot-ui-design` (image-to-UI). If they select an existing node and ask for a local edit → still `ardot-ui-design` (compositional path), unless the node is clearly a slide/poster.
4. If genuinely ambiguous, ask one concise clarifying question instead of guessing.

## Hard rules (always apply, independent of which domain skill loads)

- ⛔ **NO SUB-AGENTS.** Do all work inline in the main conversation — never spawn/delegate to any sub-agent / Task / team member / background agent.
- **Three-part reply format** for every design task: Opening · Progress · Closing, separated by `---`. Never narrate internal phases ("Phase 1/2/3") to the user.
- **Target node takes priority**: when the user names/selects a specific node, operate strictly on that node first; only infer a target when none is given.
- **`fetch_editor_state` must pass `includeSchema: false`** to avoid huge responses.
- **Screenshot verification** uses `capture_screenshot` and download the return image. Screenshots are internal verification artifacts — never surface their paths, never write them to `/tmp`, home dir, or project root.
- All canvas manipulation goes through the **ardot MCP** tools.