Remove /generate-app: app shell is now milestone 01 of the plan

The initial app is no longer generated by a separate command. /plan-milestones
now always makes milestone 01 'App Shell Generation' (target platform asked in
the single question round): theme from design tokens, one screen per blueprint
entry, routes, reusable components — no feature logic — plus Playwright setup
and the e2e/app-shell.spec.ts smoke spec. It is executed like any other
milestone via /execute-milestones (which loads platform-ui-generation for it)
or /add-feature. Milestone 02 becomes the MVP core. All workflow diagrams,
skills, docs READMEs, CLAUDE.md, and README updated; docs/design README also
gains the screen-inventory.md entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/define-design ← you are here
/generate-app web | flutter | winui3
/plan-milestones (milestone 01 = app shell, generated from this design)
/plan-milestones
/add-feature
/execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md (or /add-feature per feature)
```
## Pre-Run Check
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Next steps:
- Review docs/design/ (especially ui-blueprint.json)
- Refine the design with /update-design <change> (or re-run /define-design) until approved — do this BEFORE generating code
- Run /generate-app web | flutter | winui3 to generate the initial app
- Run /plan-milestones — milestone 01 (App Shell Generation) scaffolds the app from this design
- Use /update-design when a feature changes the UI
- Use /add-feature to add features (it respects the design spec)
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/define-design
/generate-app web | flutter | winui3
/plan-milestones
/execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md ← you are here (one phase file per run)
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1. Load the **milestone-execution skill** (`Skill('milestone-execution')`) for the per-milestone steering structure, task-division rules, and the gate criteria between milestones.
2. The **steering skill** and **development-guidelines skill** apply during implementation, exactly as in `/add-feature`.
3. **If the milestone is the App Shell milestone (milestone 01)**, additionally load the **platform-ui-generation skill** (`Skill('platform-ui-generation')`) for the design→code mapping rules of the target platform recorded in the milestone. Its E2E verification is the `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` smoke spec (shell renders, every blueprint route navigates).
### Step 2: Milestone Loop

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---
description: Generate the initial application for a target platform (web | flutter | winui3) from the design spec
---
# Generate App (Platform App Generation Phase)
This command generates the **initial application** for the selected target platform, using the design files in `docs/design/` as the source of truth. It creates the app shell, theme, routes, screens, and reusable components — **not** feature logic. Features are added later with `/add-feature`.
**Target platform**: `$ARGUMENTS` — must be one of `web`, `flutter`, `winui3`.
## How to Run
```bash
claude
> /generate-app web
> /generate-app flutter
> /generate-app winui3
```
## Position in the Workflow
```
/setup-project
/define-design
/generate-app web | flutter | winui3 ← you are here
/plan-milestones
/add-feature
```
## Pre-Run Check
1. Validate the target:
- If `$ARGUMENTS` is not one of `web`, `flutter`, `winui3`, stop and ask the user to provide a valid target.
2. Confirm the design files exist. If any of these are missing, stop and tell the user to run `/define-design` first:
- `docs/design/design-brief.md`
- `docs/design/design-tokens.json`
- `docs/design/ui-blueprint.json`
- `docs/design/platform-mapping.md`
3. **Important**: Do **not** generate any platform-specific implementation before this command is executed. This command is the only place initial app scaffolding is created.
4. This command generates from the design **as-is**. Refine the design first (re-run `/define-design` or use `/update-design <change>`) if anything needs to change — it is far easier to refine before code is generated than after.
## Procedure
### Step 0: Read the Inputs
Read all of the following:
- `docs/product-requirements.md`
- `docs/functional-design.md`
- `docs/architecture.md`
- `docs/repository-structure.md`
- `docs/development-guidelines.md`
- `docs/design/design-brief.md`
- `docs/design/design-tokens.json`
- `docs/design/ui-blueprint.json`
- `docs/design/platform-mapping.md`
### Step 1: Load the Platform Generation Skill
Load the **platform-ui-generation skill** (`Skill('platform-ui-generation')`) for the mapping rules from design files to the selected platform's code.
### Step 2: Generate the App Shell
Generate the initial application for the selected target. In all cases:
- Respect the design tokens and the UI blueprint exactly.
- Create reusable UI components (do not inline everything into screens).
- Create the initial screen structure (one screen per entry in `ui-blueprint.json`).
- Create the initial route/navigation structure.
- Use semantic, accessible markup/semantics where the platform supports it.
- **Do not implement features that are not described in the current project documents.** Only the app shell, theme, routes, screens, and shared components.
### Step 3: Platform-Specific Requirements
Apply the requirements for the selected target:
#### `/generate-app web`
- Generate a Web app using the technology defined in `docs/architecture.md`.
- If no framework is specified, ask the user or choose a simple default suitable for the repository.
- Convert `design-tokens.json` into CSS variables, a Tailwind config, or an equivalent styling system.
- Convert `ui-blueprint.json` into pages, layouts, and components.
- Use semantic HTML where possible.
- Respect responsive layout requirements (use breakpoints from the tokens).
#### `/generate-app flutter`
- Generate a Flutter app.
- Convert `design-tokens.json` into:
- `ThemeData`
- `ColorScheme`
- spacing constants
- radius constants
- text styles
- Convert `ui-blueprint.json` into:
- routes
- screens
- reusable widgets
- Keep clean separation between: `screens`, `widgets`, `theme`, `models`, `services`.
#### `/generate-app winui3`
- Generate a WinUI 3 application structure.
- Convert `design-tokens.json` into:
- `ResourceDictionary`
- theme resources
- styles
- Convert `ui-blueprint.json` into:
- XAML pages
- `UserControl`s
- navigation structure
- Use C# and XAML.
- Keep UI logic separated from business logic where possible.
### Step 4: Update Repository Structure Document
If new directories/files were created, update `docs/repository-structure.md` so it reflects the generated layout.
### Step 5: Verify (including Playwright E2E)
- If the target is `web`:
- Run `npm test`, `npm run lint`, `npm run typecheck` (where present) and fix any errors caused by the generated code.
- Set up Playwright following the **e2e-testing skill** (`Skill('e2e-testing')`) if it is not set up yet, and create the app-shell smoke spec `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` (shell renders, every blueprint route navigates, primary navigation works).
- Run `npm run test:e2e` and fix any failures caused by the generated code.
- For `flutter` / `winui3`, run the platform's available static checks and UI/integration tests if the toolchain is present (`integration_test` for Flutter, the platform's UI automation for WinUI 3); otherwise note what should be checked manually.
## Completion Criteria
- The initial app shell exists for the selected target.
- Design tokens are converted into the platform's styling system.
- The UI blueprint is converted into screens, routes, and reusable components.
- No feature logic beyond what the project documents describe has been implemented.
- `docs/repository-structure.md` has been updated if the layout changed.
Completion message:
```
"App generation is complete for target: [target]
Generated:
✅ App shell + entry point
✅ Theme / styling system (from design-tokens.json)
✅ Routes / navigation (from ui-blueprint.json)
✅ Screens (one per blueprint screen)
✅ Reusable components
✅ Playwright E2E smoke spec (e2e/app-shell.spec.ts, web target)
Next steps:
- Run the app and verify the shell renders
- Run /plan-milestones to break the product into milestones with a feature list each
- Use /add-feature to implement features (they will respect the design spec)
- Use /update-design when a feature changes the UI
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```

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/define-design
/generate-app web | flutter | winui3
/plan-milestones ← you are here
/execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md (one phase file at a time)
/execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md (one phase file at a time; milestone 01 generates the app shell)
```
## Pre-Run Check
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- `docs/product-requirements.md`
- `docs/functional-design.md`
- `docs/architecture.md`
2. Check whether the design files (`docs/design/ui-blueprint.json` etc.) exist. If they do not, warn the user that milestones will be planned without a design spec and suggest running `/define-design` first. Continue only if the user accepts.
2. Check whether the design files (`docs/design/ui-blueprint.json` etc.) exist. If they do not, warn the user that milestones will be planned without a design spec — and that milestone 01 (App Shell Generation) is scaffolded from that spec — and suggest running `/define-design` first. Continue only if the user accepts.
3. Create the milestones directory if it does not exist:
```bash
mkdir -p docs/milestones
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If `$ARGUMENTS` does not already answer these, ask the user about the following. If the user does not provide detailed preferences, **propose a sensible default** derived from the PRD priorities and confirm it before proceeding.
- **Target platform** — `web`, `flutter`, or `winui3` (propose the default from `docs/architecture.md` and `docs/design/platform-mapping.md`); milestone 01 generates the app shell for this platform
- **Number of phases** (default: 23) and **milestones per phase** (default: 13)
- **MVP definition** — what is the smallest product worth releasing? (phase 1 must deliver it)
- **Priorities** — features that must come first or last
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### Step 4: Group Features into Milestones, and Milestones into Phases
- Number milestones globally and consecutively across all phases (`01`, `02`, …).
- **Milestone 1 is the MVP core**: the smallest set of features that forms a coherent, end-to-end usable product.
- **Milestone 01 is always "App Shell Generation"** (there is no separate generate-app command — the shell is built as the first milestone). Following the **platform-ui-generation skill**, it scaffolds the app for the target platform from `docs/design/`: theme from `design-tokens.json`, routes/screens (one per blueprint screen) and reusable components from `ui-blueprint.json`, **no feature logic**, plus Playwright setup with the `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` smoke spec. Its features are pre-defined in the milestone-planning skill.
- **Milestone 02 is the MVP core**: the smallest set of features that forms a coherent, end-to-end usable product on top of the shell.
- Later milestones build on earlier ones, ordered by priority and dependency (a feature never lands before something it depends on).
- **Phase 1 delivers the MVP**: it contains milestone 1 (plus any milestone needed to make the MVP releasable). Later phases group the remaining milestones by theme and priority — each phase should be a meaningful release on its own.
- **Phase 1 delivers the MVP**: it contains milestones 01 (app shell) and 02 (plus any milestone needed to make the MVP releasable). Later phases group the remaining milestones by theme and priority — each phase should be a meaningful release on its own.
- Every feature belongs to **exactly one** milestone, and every milestone to **exactly one** phase. Explicitly park out-of-scope items in a final "Later / Icebox" section of the roadmap.
### Step 5: Create the Roadmap Overview
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Re-read all generated files and confirm:
- Milestone 01 is the App Shell milestone (target platform recorded, features per the milestone-planning skill).
- Every P0/P1 requirement in the PRD is covered by a milestone (or explicitly parked in the icebox).
- Every feature appears in exactly one milestone, and every milestone in exactly one phase file.
- Milestone numbering is global and consecutive across the phase files.
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Milestone documents created:
✅ docs/milestones/roadmap.md (overview + status)
✅ docs/milestones/phase1-milestones.md (MVP phase: milestones 01NN)
✅ docs/milestones/phase1-milestones.md (MVP phase: milestone 01 = app shell, milestones 02NN)
✅ docs/milestones/phase2-milestones.md (milestones NNNN)
Next steps:
- Review docs/milestones/ and adjust priorities if needed
- Run /execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md to implement phase 1 (a separate steering directory is created per milestone)
- Or go feature by feature: run /add-feature [first feature of milestone 1]
- Or go feature by feature: run /add-feature [first feature of milestone 01 — the app shell]
- Either way, each feature is marked complete in its phase file as it finishes
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---
description: Refine the design before /generate-app, or update it when a feature changes the UI (blueprint first, then tokens, brief, and SVGs)
description: Refine the design before the app shell is generated (milestone 01), or update it when a feature changes the UI (blueprint first, then tokens, brief, and SVGs)
---
# Update Design
This command updates the design specification. It is used in two situations: (1) to refine the UI/UX **before** running `/generate-app` (e.g. adjusting screens, tokens, or layout after reviewing the initial design), and (2) to update the design when a feature changes the UI. It updates the structured design files **only** — it does **not** implement application code unless explicitly requested.
This command updates the design specification. It is used in two situations: (1) to refine the UI/UX **before** the app shell is generated by milestone 01 (e.g. adjusting screens, tokens, or layout after reviewing the initial design), and (2) to update the design when a feature changes the UI. It updates the structured design files **only** — it does **not** implement application code unless explicitly requested.
**Change description**: `$ARGUMENTS` (e.g. `/update-design add a profile screen with avatar and edit form`)

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## Writing the App-Shell Smoke Spec
Created by `/generate-app` (web target). `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` must verify:
Created by the App Shell milestone (milestone 01, web target). `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` must verify:
- The app starts and the entry screen renders.
- Every route in `ui-blueprint.json` is reachable and renders its screen title.
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## Verification Checklist
Used by `/add-feature` Step 7, `/execute-milestones` Step 2.6, and `/generate-app` Step 5:
Used by `/add-feature` Step 7 and `/execute-milestones` Step 2.6 (including the App Shell milestone):
- [ ] Playwright is set up (`test:e2e` script exists) — set it up via this skill if missing.
- [ ] Every implemented feature has `e2e/[feature].spec.ts` covering its acceptance criteria.

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## Core Principles
1. **MVP first**: Phase 1 delivers the MVP; milestone 1 is its core — the smallest coherent, end-to-end usable product. Not a layer (e.g. "all the models"), but a vertical slice a user could actually use.
2. **Vertical slices**: Each feature cuts through UI → logic → data. Avoid horizontal milestones like "backend milestone" / "frontend milestone".
3. **One feature = one `/add-feature` run**: If a feature needs more than one steering directory to implement, split it. If it is a one-line change, merge it into a neighbor.
4. **One phase file = one `/execute-milestones` run**: A phase groups 13 milestones that together form a meaningful release.
5. **Dependency order**: A feature never lands in an earlier milestone than something it depends on, and a milestone never lands in an earlier phase than its dependencies.
6. **Exactly-once assignment**: Every feature belongs to exactly one milestone; every milestone to exactly one phase file. Deliberately deferred items go to the roadmap's "Later / Icebox" — nothing silently disappears.
7. **Living documents**: Phase files track status. `/add-feature` and `/execute-milestones` check off features (`[ ]``[x]`) as they complete, and milestone/phase statuses are updated in both the phase file and `roadmap.md`.
1. **App shell first**: Milestone 01 is always **App Shell Generation** — there is no separate generate-app command; the initial app is built as the first milestone (see "Milestone 01" below).
2. **MVP first**: Phase 1 delivers the MVP; milestone 02 is its core — the smallest coherent, end-to-end usable product on top of the shell. Not a layer (e.g. "all the models"), but a vertical slice a user could actually use.
3. **Vertical slices**: Each feature cuts through UI → logic → data. Avoid horizontal milestones like "backend milestone" / "frontend milestone".
4. **One feature = one `/add-feature` run**: If a feature needs more than one steering directory to implement, split it. If it is a one-line change, merge it into a neighbor.
5. **One phase file = one `/execute-milestones` run**: A phase groups 13 milestones that together form a meaningful release.
6. **Dependency order**: A feature never lands in an earlier milestone than something it depends on, and a milestone never lands in an earlier phase than its dependencies.
7. **Exactly-once assignment**: Every feature belongs to exactly one milestone; every milestone to exactly one phase file. Deliberately deferred items go to the roadmap's "Later / Icebox" — nothing silently disappears.
8. **Living documents**: Phase files track status. `/add-feature` and `/execute-milestones` check off features (`[ ]``[x]`) as they complete, and milestone/phase statuses are updated in both the phase file and `roadmap.md`.
## Inputs
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Use the structure in `template.md` for each phase file and for the roadmap.
## Milestone 01: App Shell Generation (always the first milestone)
The initial app is not created by a separate command — it is **milestone 01**, the first milestone of phase 1, executed like any other milestone (via `/execute-milestones phase1-milestones.md` or feature by feature with `/add-feature`). Implementation follows the **platform-ui-generation skill** for the design→code mapping.
Record the **target platform** (`web` | `flutter` | `winui3`) in the milestone's Scope. Its features are:
- [ ] Generate the app shell and theme from the design tokens — entry point, layout shell, and the platform's styling system converted from `design-tokens.json`
- [ ] Generate routes, screens, and reusable components from the UI blueprint — one screen per `ui-blueprint.json` entry, navigation wired, shared components extracted, **no feature logic**
- [ ] Set up Playwright and the app-shell smoke spec — `playwright.config.ts`, `test:e2e` script, and `e2e/app-shell.spec.ts` verifying the shell renders and every blueprint route navigates (see the e2e-testing skill; platform equivalents for flutter/winui3)
Definition of done (in addition to the standard one): the app runs, every blueprint screen is reachable, tokens are the only styling source (no hard-coded values), and no feature logic exists beyond what the documents describe.
**Dependency**: milestone 01 requires the design spec (`docs/design/`). Every later milestone depends on milestone 01.
## How to Slice Features
A well-sized feature:
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## How to Group Milestones and Phases
1. Tag every feature with its PRD priority and its dependencies.
2. Milestone 1 (MVP core): the minimal dependency-closed set of P0 features that forms a usable product walk-through (a user can start, do the core job, and finish).
3. Following milestones: group remaining features by theme and priority, keeping each milestone a meaningful step on its own ("after milestone N, the user can additionally …"). Prefer 38 features per milestone.
4. **Phase 1** contains milestone 1 plus any milestone required to make the MVP releasable. **Following phases** group the remaining milestones into meaningful releases — prefer 23 phases with 13 milestones each.
5. A phase should be independently valuable: after `/execute-milestones phase[N]-milestones.md` finishes, the product is in a releasable state.
2. Milestone 01 (App Shell): always first — see "Milestone 01" above.
3. Milestone 02 (MVP core): the minimal dependency-closed set of P0 features that forms a usable product walk-through (a user can start, do the core job, and finish).
4. Following milestones: group remaining features by theme and priority, keeping each milestone a meaningful step on its own ("after milestone N, the user can additionally …"). Prefer 38 features per milestone.
5. **Phase 1** contains milestones 01 and 02 plus any milestone required to make the MVP releasable. **Following phases** group the remaining milestones into meaningful releases — prefer 23 phases with 13 milestones each.
6. A phase should be independently valuable: after `/execute-milestones phase[N]-milestones.md` finishes, the product is in a releasable state.
## Status Tracking Rules
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Before finishing:
- [ ] Milestone 01 is the App Shell milestone, with its target platform recorded and the three shell features listed.
- [ ] Every P0/P1 PRD requirement maps to a feature in some milestone (or is explicitly in the icebox).
- [ ] Every feature appears in exactly one milestone; every milestone in exactly one phase file.
- [ ] Milestone numbering is global and consecutive across phase files.

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Use this structure for each `docs/milestones/phase[N]-milestones.md`. A phase file contains one or more milestones; milestone numbers are global across all phase files.
**Milestone 01 is always "App Shell Generation"** (first milestone of phase 1): its In Scope records the target platform (`web` | `flutter` | `winui3`), its features are the three shell features defined in SKILL.md (theme from tokens, screens/routes from the blueprint, Playwright + app-shell smoke spec), and its Definition of Done additionally requires that every blueprint screen is reachable and no feature logic was implemented.
```markdown
# Phase [N]: [Name]

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---
name: platform-ui-generation
description: Guide for converting the design files (design-tokens.json + ui-blueprint.json) into application code for Web, Flutter, or WinUI 3. Use when running /generate-app or implementing UI against the design spec.
description: Guide for converting the design files (design-tokens.json + ui-blueprint.json) into application code for Web, Flutter, or WinUI 3. Use when executing the App Shell milestone (milestone 01) or implementing UI against the design spec.
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash
---
# Platform UI Generation Skill
This skill explains how to convert the design files under `docs/design/` into application code. It is used by `/generate-app` and by `/add-feature` when implementing UI.
This skill explains how to convert the design files under `docs/design/` into application code. It is used by the **App Shell milestone** (milestone 01 — planned by `/plan-milestones`, executed by `/execute-milestones` or `/add-feature`) and by `/add-feature` when implementing UI.
## Core Principles
1. **Source of truth**: `docs/design/ui-blueprint.json` defines structure; `docs/design/design-tokens.json` defines values.
2. **No hard-coded values**: every color, size, spacing, radius, and duration in generated code must come from a token.
3. **Reusable components first**: extract reusable components; do not inline the entire tree into screens.
4. **No feature logic during scaffolding**: `/generate-app` creates the shell, theme, routes, screens, and shared components only. Features come from `/add-feature`.
4. **No feature logic during scaffolding**: the App Shell milestone creates the shell, theme, routes, screens, and shared components only. Features come from the later milestones.
5. **Respect the platform mapping**: `docs/design/platform-mapping.md` documents how each artifact maps to each platform.
## Inputs
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- Reference tokens for all visual values — no hard-coded literals.
- Stay presentational: no feature/business logic.
## Scaffolding Scope (what `/generate-app` creates)
## Scaffolding Scope (what the App Shell milestone creates)
- App entry point and shell
- Theme/styling system from tokens