tilde.style

The central constraint

You bring the design intention. The AI executes it.

Before any generative design session, write your intention in one sentence. The toolkit enforces this. If you can't articulate what you wanted before the output arrived, the loop has already replaced your judgment.

This is the trespass.ing principle applied to design: author-preservation is agency.

Commands

In any Claude Code session with the skill installed:

Command	Description
`/tilde-style init`	Design intention interview → `style.md` + `DESIGN.md`
`/tilde-style gardening`	Load the Gardening style (Teich-Morgen palette, pond vocabulary)
`/tilde-style ground`	Write your intention before generating. Preserves authorship.
`/tilde-style tend`	Review current state against the active metaphor. Flag drift.
`/tilde-style detect`	Scan for anti-patterns. Deterministic.
`/tilde-style language`	Define a new design language: metaphor → tokens → vocabulary
`/tilde-style document`	Write or update `DESIGN.md` from current state
`/tilde-style season`	Add a temporal palette variant via the `data-mode` pattern

Styles

tilde.style ships one style. You create your own with /tilde-style language.

Gardening

Extracted from chatbot-garden — a vocational training knowledge assistant. The metaphor emerged from the codebase: the knowledge base is a pond, content floats as Lernhappen, the ingest workflow is a picnic, the tool server is a shed, the append-only event log is a Rundholz.

Teich-Morgen palette Pond vocabulary Tending interaction model

Contribute a style

Fork the repo on tangled.org
Run /tilde-style language in a Claude Code session
Save your manifest to styles/{your-style}/style.md
Open a PR — include the metaphor origin and a color swatch

Styles must be grounded in a real-world metaphor, not a design aesthetic.

Install

git clone git@tangled.org:tilde.style/tilde-style ~/.claude/skills/tilde-style

Then in any Claude Code session:

/tilde-style init

Requires Claude Code. The skill works from any project directory.