/ds-manager
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/ds-manager — Design System & Token Manager
One-shot entry point for design system and token management work. Analyses the request and routes to the appropriate skill, or offers a guided choice when the intent is ambiguous.
What this command handles
Detect the user's intent from the invocation context (arguments, current directory, files present) and route accordingly:
| Intent signal | Routes to |
|---|---|
audit, check, review tokens |
design-token-audit |
generate, create tokens, new token set |
design-token-generator |
pipeline, style dictionary, build tokens, transform |
token-transform-pipeline |
new brand, brand theme, white label |
brand-theme-scaffolder |
document component, component docs, write docs |
component-doc-writer |
guidelines, contribution, deprecation, ADR, governance |
design-system-usage-guidelines |
review PR, token PR, check diff |
ds-token-reviewer agent |
Guided workflow: New design system from scratch
If the user says "set up a design system" or "start a design system" with no existing tokens:
- Prompt for brand brief (primary colour, font, grid size, platform).
- Run
design-token-generatorto create the three-tier token set. - Run
token-transform-pipelineto configure the Style Dictionary build. - Offer to generate component docs for the first 3 components.
Guided workflow: New brand on existing system
If tokens exist and the user says "add a brand" or "new theme":
- Confirm base tokens path.
- Prompt for brand slug, primary hex, secondary (optional), font family (optional), radius style, platform.
- Run
brand-theme-scaffolderwith collected args. - Print diff report and theme-switcher snippet.
Direct invocation examples
/ds-manager audit tokens/
/ds-manager generate brand-brief.md --platform sitecore
/ds-manager pipeline tokens/ --outputs css,tailwind --platform optimizely
/ds-manager brand tokens/ --brand nova --primary #0F4C81 --radius rounded
/ds-manager docs Button --source src/components/Button.tsx
/ds-manager guidelines "Form components" --type all
/ds-manager review-pr
When invoked with no arguments
Show a brief menu:
Design System & Token Manager
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What would you like to do?
1. Audit existing tokens
2. Generate a new token set
3. Configure a Style Dictionary pipeline
4. Scaffold a new brand theme
5. Write component documentation
6. Generate usage guidelines / governance docs
7. Review token changes in current PR
Reply with a number or describe what you need.
Technical details
- Source
- design-system-manager
- Author
- Dakota Smith
- Invocation
/ds-manager- Maturity
- experimental
- Security review
- No security review
- Owners
-
- design
- engineering
- File
plugins/design-system-manager/commands/ds-manager.md
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