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Add a new color theme to pixtuoid (a full ~90-role palette across 9 groups, rendered into the office). Use when the user says 'add a <name> theme', 'new color scheme', or 'port <palette> to pixtuoid'. Orchestrates the Rust registration PLUS the two steps agents miss — the site manifest bridge test and the committed-media regen.

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add-theme (v1)

A theme is a pub static Theme with ~90 color roles across 9 groups (surface, office, lighting, furniture, effects, ui, tool_glow, ApplianceColors for corridor appliances, and SourceColors for per-CLI dashboard badge hues). Every field must be supplied — corridor appliances render wrong until each theme provides its own set.

When to use

  • "Add a <name> theme" / "new color scheme" / "port <palette>".

The checklist

Full current steps: .github/prompts/add-theme.prompt.md

  1. Create crates/pixtuoid-scene/src/theme/<name>.rs — fill EVERY field; never fall back to the normal palette.
  2. Register: mod in theme/mod.rs, append &<NAME> to ALL_THEMES, theme_by_name() resolves the kebab-case name.
  3. Each palette key must map to a UNIQUE RGB — the renderer recolors by RGB equality (recolor_frame); duplicate keys collide silently.

The two steps agents miss (both have teeth)

  • site/src/themes.json row (id = the kebab-case name) — theme_gallery_manifest_matches_all_themes (theme/mod.rs) asserts the manifest ids == ALL_THEMES names, so the theme fails just test until the row exists. The site never runs the binary, so this bridge test is the only guard that the switcher stays in sync.
  • just gen-media — themes.json drives the committed theme stills; a new theme drifts them, so regenerate and commit them or the smoke gen-check reds the PR (the same error the bridge test's message points at).

(Full step list + field details: add-theme.prompt.md + the tui CLAUDE.md theme notes — this skill headlines the two teeth steps agents miss.)

Finish

  • just test — appliance_palette_is_legible_for_every_theme + the snapshot tests must pass; update insta snapshots if the theme list changed.
  • Visually verify — render the snapshot example and eyeball the office (see the beautify-decoration skill); a palette that passes the legibility guard can still read badly.
  • just preflight, then the two-lens-review skill (a theme is public-facing — add the editorial/film-critic lens for the rendered stills).