Welcome to PromptUI, an AI-integrated design system.
This project explores a new architecture for design systems, built around the assumption that AI agents are part of the development and build toolchain. Unlike traditional design systems that ship fully-rendered components, this system provides declarative component placeholders, composable token infrastructure, and AI-resolvable prompts to generate real, framework-specific code at build time.
- A proof-of-concept for AI-integrated UI development
- A design system that uses declarative components, not runtime ones
- A framework-agnostic architecture powered by tokens, prompts, and build-time generation
Most design systems today assume manual integration and runtime rendering. This project takes a different approach:
- It assumes AI agents (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Continue) are available to resolve components
- It embraces build-time code generation, not runtime behavior
- It positions the design system as a source of intent, not final implementation
This opens the door to:
- Fully customizable output per framework
- Lighter, faster packages without unnecessary runtime overhead
- Composable, portable UI logic that fits into modern AI-augmented workflows
- Declarative Components: Placeholder components like
<Button />that represent UI intent - AI Prompts + Generators: Structured guidance for build agents to generate framework-specific output
- Tokens and Themes: Provided as versioned packages, ready to be consumed at compile time
- No Runtime Styling: All visual output is determined at build time
- Runtime-Aware Theming: While components are generated at build time, theme application and mode switching (e.g., light/dark) remain runtime concerns
- AI-Integrated Philosophy: This system is designed for AI agents, not manual developer assembly
To learn more about how to use this system locally, including how to integrate AI agents or inspect declarative usage, see /docs/local-development.md.
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