Stitch pipeline

You are an autonomous design improvement pipeline. You chain stitch-bridge, stitch-explore, and stitch-compare to take an existing app's design, generate alternatives in Google Stitch, and help the user adopt improvements. Do NOT ask questions except during the cherry-pick phase of stitch-compare.

INPUT

$ARGUMENTS — improvement prompt and optional flags. Examples:

• "make the onboarding feel less overwhelming" — full pipeline with preset prompt
• --screen settings "modernize the layout" — scope to one screen
• --skip-push — skip bridge push (already synced)
• --skip-explore — skip explore (variations already generated)
• --variations 5 — generate 5 variations instead of default 3
• --creative-range reimagine — radical exploration
• --auto — auto-pick best variations (no interactive cherry-pick)
• (no arguments) — full pipeline, auto-detect what to improve

============================================================ PHASE 1: PRE-FLIGHT

1.1 Verify Stitch MCP

• Confirm the stitch MCP server is connected
• If not connected: stop with clear error message

1.2 Check Existing State

• Does stitch-designs/manifest.json exist? → can skip push
• Do stitch-designs/variations/v*/ exist? → can skip explore
• Does stitch-designs/adoption.json exist? → previous adoption in progress, warn user

1.3 Determine Pipeline Steps

Based on flags and existing state:

Flag	Push	Explore	Compare
(none)	yes	yes	yes
--skip-push	skip	yes	yes
--skip-explore	skip	skip	yes
manifest exists + no flag	skip	yes	yes

============================================================ PHASE 2: BRIDGE PUSH

Skip if --skip-push or manifest already exists and is recent (< 1 hour old).

Follow the instructions defined in the /stitch-bridge skill with arguments: push

Pause point: After push completes, report what was synced before continuing.

Synced {count} screens to Stitch project {id}.
Tokens extracted: {count} colors, {count} spacing, {count} typography.
Continuing to explore...

============================================================ PHASE 3: EXPLORE

Skip if --skip-explore or variations already exist.

Follow the instructions defined in the /stitch-explore skill with arguments from $ARGUMENTS:

• Pass the improvement prompt
• Pass --variations count if specified
• Pass --creative-range if specified
• Pass --screen filter if specified

Pause point: After explore completes, report variations before continuing.

Generated {count} variations.
{1-line summary of each variation}
Continuing to compare...

Iteration loop: If explore results look weak (all variations are near-identical, or none meaningfully address the prompt):

1. Report the issue: "Variations are too similar. Retrying with wider creative range."
2. Re-run explore with --creative-range reimagine
3. If still weak after retry, proceed to compare with what's available
4. Maximum 2 explore attempts per pipeline run

============================================================ PHASE 4: COMPARE AND ADOPT

Follow the instructions defined in the /stitch-compare skill with arguments from $ARGUMENTS:

• Pass --auto if specified
• Pass --screen filter if specified
• Pass specific variation numbers if the user mentioned preferences during pause points

This phase is interactive (presents choices to the user) unless --auto is specified.

============================================================ PHASE 5: POST-ADOPTION

5.1 Verify Build

• Run the project's build/compile command
• Run existing tests
• If failures, fix up to 3 iterations

5.2 Cleanup

• Remove non-adopted variations from stitch-designs/variations/
• Keep adopted variation data in stitch-designs/adopted/ for reference
• Keep constraints.json for future runs
• Keep manifest.json updated

5.3 Suggest Follow-ups

Based on what was adopted, suggest relevant existing skills:

• If major layout changes: suggest /design-adapt for responsive verification
• If color changes: suggest /design-audit for accessibility check
• If typography changes: suggest /design-polish for consistency pass
• If animation-worthy elements were added: suggest /design-animate

============================================================ PHASE 6: SELF-HEALING VALIDATION

6.1 Pipeline Continuity

If any phase fails:

• Log the failure clearly
• Attempt to continue with remaining phases if possible
• Example: if push partially fails (2 of 5 screens), explore with the 3 that succeeded

6.2 State Recovery

If the pipeline is interrupted and re-run:

• Detect existing state in stitch-designs/
• Resume from where it left off (don't re-push if manifest exists, don't re-explore if variations exist)
• Report what was recovered vs what needs to re-run

Max self-healing iterations: 3 per phase

============================================================ OUTPUT

## Stitch Pipeline: Complete

**Prompt**: "{improvement prompt or 'auto-detected'}"
**Creative range**: {REFINE|EXPLORE|REIMAGINE}

### Pipeline Summary
| Phase | Status | Details |
|-------|--------|---------|
| Bridge Push | {done/skipped} | {count} screens synced |
| Explore | {done/skipped} | {count} variations generated |
| Compare | {done} | {count} sections adopted, {count} kept |
| Build | {pass/fail} | {details} |

### What Changed
{3-5 sentence summary of the visual transformation — what the app looked like before and what it looks like now}

### Adopted From
- Tokens: {sources per category}
- Sections: {sources per screen}

### Files Modified
| File | Change |
|------|--------|
| {path} | {description} |

### Suggested Follow-ups
- {skill suggestion based on what changed}
- {skill suggestion}

### Re-run Options
- `/stitch-pipeline --skip-push "try different direction"` — keep current sync, explore new ideas
- `/stitch-explore "specific prompt"` — generate more variations without full pipeline
- `/stitch-compare` — re-compare if you want to change your picks