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Same tokens. Different DNA. Why a Texas notebook must not become a parlor.

Most agent "redesigns" are mood boards. Navy glass. A fake dashboard. The dates and proper nouns already in the file never make it onto the page.

/reimagine-it is the opposite contract: extract this source's nouns, dates, and colors, then ship a real artifact (webpage, infographic poster, SVG, Three.js, simulation). Two sources with the same command tokens must not share layout chrome.

The fail case

If a redesign skill is allowed to keep a gold layout and swap nouns, clients get the same poster with different labels. Visible fail: a Jules Ice Cream source that still looks like the Texas notebook. The skill has to fail that, on purpose.

Two golds, one method

  • Texas notebook → Lone Star / Alamo / Rio Grande. The SVG weenie is the actual flag, not a gold-star logo.
  • Jules Ice Cream → parlor / cone / freezer / flavor board. Not a Texas map with scoops glued on.

If a live run of Jules could be mistaken for Texas gold, the run failed.

Infographic here means a paper poster of an argument (common-scale encodings, ISOTYPE counts, lossless table). Not a dashboard. Not a résumé donut chart.

AntV Infographic is useful as a structure router (list / sequence / compare / values). We do not import @antv/infographic or paste their templates.

Try it

Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add Kayforkind/reimagine-it
/plugin install reimagine-it@reimagine-it
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Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI:

npx skills add Kayforkind/reimagine-it
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Then /reimagine-it, /reimagine-it infographic, /reimagine-it svg, /reimagine-it 3js, or /reimagine-it simulation.

Offline HTML. No CDN. No Figma.

What would falsify it

  • A Jules output a client could screenshot next to Texas gold and call the same poster.
  • A "redesign" that invents nouns the source file does not contain.

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K Merchant

Show HN is up if you want the gallery without a GitHub login: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413551

The live Texas vs Jules gold is still the fail case this post is about: kayforkind.github.io/reimagine-it/