gstack front-end skill panorama: AI workflow from design to launch

Introduction

In previous notes, we talked about What is gstack, How to run through the workflow, and Skill’s engineering structure. But there is one question that has not been discussed - among the 60+ Skills brought after gstack installation, which ones are related to front-end/UI design? In what order? **

This note does two things: first, classify the ~27 skills related to the front end by function, and then use an interesting small project - the countdown anniversary page - to walk through the complete workflow from beginning to end, with screenshots at each stage, so that you can see the actual effect.

Front-end Skill Kit Panorama

gstack's front-end skills can be divided into 6 functional layers, from foundation to roof, with each layer solving problems at different stages.

Design Infrastructure

A one-time setting at the project level to determine the design language, and all subsequent Skills will refer to these benchmarks.

If the project already has DESIGN.md, this level can be skipped.

Design Exploration

When you are unsure about the direction, quickly compare multiple options.

Design implementation

Turn the plan into truly runnable code and handle typesetting, layout, and responsiveness.

Design enhancements

On the basis of functional completion, inject dynamic effects, personality and emotional details.

These four enhancement skills are in a progressive relationship: animate is the basic dynamic effect, delight is emotional, bolder is amplification, and overdrive is explosion. Stack them step by step according to project needs, it is not necessary to use them all.

Design optimization

Convergence and refinement – removing excess, aligning deviations, and polishing rough edges.

Design Review and Verification

Systematic inspection before going online, finding problems, scoring, and fixing them.

Practical demonstration: Use the countdown anniversary page to go through the entire process

Just looking at the classification table is too abstract. We use a small project to string together the above skills - making a countdown/anniversary single page: choose a meaningful date and create a countdown display with digital animation and background effects.

This project is small but complete, just enough to cover most of the 6 levels of skills. The complete process is:

基建 → 探索 → 构建 → 增强 → 调优 → 审查 → 发布

You don’t have to run all 7 steps every time. After you become proficient, the commonly used links are only /frontend-design → /animate → /polish → /ship four steps. In order to show the complete ability, every step is taken here.

Stage 1: Infrastructure - Determine the design language

Skill：/design-consultation + /teach-impeccable

It only needs to be done once at the beginning of the project. Outputs DESIGN.md, which lets the AI ​​remember your design preferences. If the project already has DESIGN.md, skip it directly.

> /design-consultation
"我要做一个倒计时纪念日页面，风格偏好是深色背景、
数字大而醒目、整体氛围温暖但克制"

Stage 2: Exploration - Comparison of multiple options

Skill：/design-shotgun

When unsure of the direction, let AI generate 3-5 visual solutions and open the comparison panel to choose.

> /design-shotgun
"做一个倒计时/纪念日单页，展示距离某个日期的天/时/分/秒，
要有数字翻牌动画，背景有微妙的粒子或渐变效果，
整体氛围要温暖但不俗气。给我 3 个方向。"

Choose a direction from 3 options. If you know exactly what you want, skip this step and go directly to Stage 3.

Stage 3: Build - produce production-level code

Skill：/frontend-design + /adapt

core link. code while ensuring responsiveness is in place from the start.

> /frontend-design
"基于方案 2 实现倒计时页面。要求：
- 实时倒计时（天/时/分/秒）
- 响应式布局（桌面 + 手机）
- 日期可配置"

Stage 4: Enhance – Inject motion and personality

Skill: /animate → /delight (on demand /overdrive)

These three are in a progressive relationship: animate is the basic dynamic effect, delight is the emotional detail, and overdrive is the explosive effect. Add layers as needed.

> /animate
"给倒计时数字加翻牌动画效果，页面加载时有入场动画"

> /delight
"给页面加一些有趣的小细节，比如到达整点时的微庆祝效果"

> /overdrive  （可选，想要 wow effect 的话）
"给背景加粒子效果或流体动画，60fps"

Note the animation constraints referenced to DESIGN.md - if the design system only allows a 150ms hover transition, /overdrive will not apply. This is a good judgment exercise.

Stage 5: Tuning - Convergence and Polishing

Skill: /typeset + /polish (on demand /distill, /normalize)

Spacing alignment, font hierarchy, visual rhythm. If you find you've added too much, use /distill for subtraction.

> /typeset
"检查数字字体的大小、粗细层级是否合理"

> /polish
"最终打磨，检查对齐、间距、暗色模式支持"

Stage 6: Review – Systematic Check

Skill：/design-review + /audit

Visual QA + technical review. /design-review will automatically take screenshots to compare and fix issues, /audit will check accessibility and performance.

> /design-review
"视觉 QA，截图对比桌面和手机端"

> /audit
"检查可访问性和性能"

Stage 7: Release

Skill：/ship

Standard gstack release process - testing, diff review, creating PR.

> /ship

Expected results: A visually exquisite countdown page, using 8-10 front-end skills in the process. What's more important is to establish the intuition of "what skill to use at what stage".

Daily cheat sheet

The above is the complete process. If you encounter specific problems in daily development, just check this table:

Summary

This note does two things:

1. Panorama - gstack’s 27 front-end skills are classified into 6 layers (infrastructure→exploration→implementation→enhancement→optimization→review)
2. Practical Demonstration - Use a countdown anniversary page to walk through the complete workflow, showing what Skills are used at each stage and why

Key takeaway: The most powerful usage of these Skills is not to call them individually, but to combine them in a pipeline - exploring directions, building implementations, enhancing polishing, and reviewing releases, with clear Skill selection at each stage.

But don’t be tied down by the process – once you’re proficient, /frontend-design → /animate → /polish → /ship four steps is enough most of the time.

Related Reading:

• gstack Concepts — What is gstack and what problems does it solve?
• gstack Practical Chapter — Complete workflow from installation to runthrough
• gstack Skill Architecture Teardown — What can Skill developers learn?
• Claude Skills Concept — Understand the underlying mechanism of Skills