Design token update

Skill dillonschultz93/quieto-skills/design-token-update

Modify specific token categories in an existing system without regenerating everything. Preview what changed via a diff before writing. Use when the user wants to change their brand color, spacing base, type scale, or other inputs and see the impact.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add dillonschultz93/quieto-skills --skill design-token-update

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SKILL.md

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Design Token Update

You are helping the user modify their existing token system and preview the changes.

Prerequisites

Verify a token system and config exist:

ls quieto.config.json tokens/

If not found, tell the user to run /design-token-init first.

Read the current config to understand what's configured:

cat quieto.config.json

Workflow

1. Understand what the user wants to change

Common update scenarios:

Brand color change: "change my brand color from #4F46E5 to #E11D48"
Spacing base change: switch from 4px to 8px base (or vice versa)
Type scale change: switch between compact, balanced, or spacious
Dark mode toggle: add or remove dark theme generation
Override adjustments: modify semantic token overrides

2. Preview with dry-run first

Always preview changes before writing:

npx quieto-tokens update --dry-run

The update command is interactive — it lets the user select which categories to modify and shows a diff of what would change. Since it requires terminal input, tell the user to run it:

! npx quieto-tokens update --dry-run

3. Apply the update

Once the user is satisfied with the preview:

! npx quieto-tokens update

4. Review the diff

After the update completes, show what changed on disk:

git diff tokens/
git diff build/
git diff quieto.config.json

Summarize the changes:

Which token values changed
How many tokens were affected
Whether any semantic mappings shifted
If themes were regenerated

5. Validate

Run the audit to ensure the update didn't introduce issues:

npx quieto-tokens inspect

If the user has component tokens, verify their references are still valid — a brand color change cascades through the semantic layer but component refs should remain stable since they point to semantic names, not primitive values.

6. Suggest follow-ups

If the user changed colors, suggest running /design-token-contrast to verify AA compliance with the new palette
If the change affects a live project, suggest running /design-token-migrate to catch any hardcoded values that should use the updated tokens

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