stardust

stardust

Redesign an existing website to make it better.

Stardust is a Claude Code plugin that drives a guided redesign of an existing website. It is a higher-level skill built on top of impeccable: impeccable owns how to design well; stardust owns the specific job of taking a site that exists and turning it into a site that is better.

Stardust is opinionated about what "better" means but the user has the final say. The default definition of better is rooted in impeccable's critique and audit, the absence of AI-slop patterns, and a user-selected expressive direction. Every redesign decision is reasoned in the open before code runs.

Pipeline

extract  →  direct  →  prototype  →  migrate

1. extract — crawl the existing site (capped, multi-page) and seed a description of its current state in impeccable's own format (stardust/current/PRODUCT.md + DESIGN.md).
2. direct — capture the user's intent ("make it better", "make it more expressive for a young audience") as an open phrase, reason about what it means in stardust's dimensional vocabulary, ask up to two clarifying questions, and write a target PRODUCT.md + DESIGN.md at the project root plus a stardust/direction.md with the full reasoning trace.
3. prototype — render before/after static-HTML prototypes per page and iterate via $impeccable craft and $impeccable live.
4. migrate — apply the approved target DESIGN.md to every page in the inventory. Per-page state means migration is incremental and resumable.

Surface

$stardust                  # state report + freeform intent reasoning
$stardust extract [url]    # ingest existing site
$stardust direct           # resolve intent → target PRODUCT.md / DESIGN.md
$stardust prototype [page] # before/after prototype, delegates to impeccable
$stardust migrate [page]   # render redesigned static HTML (incremental)

$stardust with no argument runs a read-only state report and shows the recommended next step. $stardust with a freeform phrase runs the intent reasoning procedure (reference/intent-reasoning.md) and proposes a plan before executing anything.

Hard dependency

Stardust requires impeccable to be installed. There are no fallbacks. On every invocation stardust verifies the impeccable skill is reachable and aborts otherwise with a clear install hint.

What stardust does NOT ship

• No design language of its own. All design opinions are impeccable's. Stardust adds redesign-specific opinions (the divergence toolkit, the palette library, the before/after model, the migration target).
• No production CMS output. The migration target is platform-agnostic static HTML. Conversion to AEM EDS, another CMS, or a framework is a separate downstream effort and out of scope for this plugin.
• No closed intent vocabulary. The user phrase is open. The agent reasons about it in public.

Status

v0.2.0 — complete refactor. v1 (the four-stage greenfield design tool) is preserved at adobe/skills/plugins/stardust and is unrelated to this version's surface.

License

Apache-2.0