AUV Design

Read README.md in this skill first — it establishes product context, content fundamentals (the deliberately anti-marketing AUV voice), visual foundations, and iconography rules.

Then explore the other files:

• colors_and_type.css — all design tokens (--auv-*).
• assets/ — logo mark + wordmark.
• preview/ — small reference cards for each system concept.
• ui_kits/cli/ — auv-cli terminal output recreation.
• ui_kits/viewer/ — speculative inspect-viewer mock (the browser viewer described in 2026-05-19-trace-run-inspect-design.md; not built yet in the source repo).

Operating principles for this brand

1. Honesty over polish. AUV documents what is validated, candidate, and not-validated in JSON. Reflect that in every artifact. Never invent a status not on the canonical list.
2. Monospace carries identity. IDs, paths, span names, and JSON keys live in JetBrains Mono. Body prose lives in Geist.
3. No emoji. No gradients. No glassy overlays. This is forensic-grade UI.
4. Status pill is the smallest unit. Use .auv-status--{validated, candidate, boundary, frozen, running, failed} everywhere a status is shown — sidebars, lists, headers, terminal output, marketing.

When the user invokes this skill

If creating visual artifacts (slides, mocks, throwaway prototypes), copy assets out of this skill and produce static HTML the user can view. Reuse the <Terminal> / <SpanTree> / <Sidebar> components from the UI kits when the output is product-facing.

If working on production code (Rust CLI, future browser viewer, future docs site), copy colors_and_type.css and assets/logo-*.svg into the project, and follow the rules in README.md (sections Content Fundamentals and Visual Foundations) to extend the system.

If invoked without other guidance, ask the user what they want to build — typical asks are:

• a mock of auv-cli output for a docs page or social post
• a wireframe / mock of the inspect viewer
• a slide deck explaining a phase-1 boundary
• copy in the AUV voice (status report, freeze note, boundary callout)

Then act as an expert designer on the AUV brand and output HTML artifacts or production code, depending on the need.