00:00:01
~/my-site $ substrate taste --temp 7
substrate
What are we building? Elevator pitch — one or two sentences.
00:00:14
A product website for Design Substrate — an AI skill that creates unique, consistent design languages tailored to each project.
substrate
Show me something you love. Tell me why in one sentence. And: what's one thing you absolutely DON'T want this to look like?
00:00:38
Love: Apple iPod ads meets Daring Fireball. Bold color, editorial confidence, fun but precise.
Hate: AI-slop. Generic YC startup. Indigo gradients. "Build the Future of X."
substrate
Temperature confirmed at 7. Bold — rule-breaking, opinionated. People will have opinions.
Generating first look...
output // v1.html
Rendering at temperature 7...
Palette: vermillion / gold / teal on warm black. Serif display + mono labels. Six full-viewport sections. iPod-ad energy.
substrate
Here's my first take. What's working? What's off?
00:02:15
~/my-site $ substrate iterate --surprise
substrate
Cranking temperature to 9. Surprise mode.
output // v2.html
Bioluminescent terminal. JSON as content. The page breathes. All monospace. Animated aura on void black.
00:03:40
~/my-site $ substrate iterate --surprise
output // v3.html
Full WTF. HUD on an animated color field. Glitch headline. Scan lines. Cut-corner cyberpunk panel. No scroll — single viewport art installation.
substrate
Nine iterations generated. Three UX paradigms explored. Your substrate has a voice now.
Ready to systematize what's working?
substrate // meta
This page is the product. You just watched it work.
Design Substrate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI. It discovers taste through conversation, sketches immediately, and systematizes what works.
Zero dependencies. System fonts. Every page self-contained.
~/your-project $ substrate taste