Rpa_Skills/rpa-dashboard-no-ai/templates/frontend.md

Existing frontend: detect, report, keep or restyle

Shared by rpa-dashboard-no-ai and rpa-dashboard-ai. The files named here sit next to this one, in rpa-dashboard-no-ai/templates/. From the AI skill, reach them through ../rpa-dashboard-no-ai/templates/.

1. Detect

Run this before asking anything:

python <rpa-dashboard-no-ai>/templates/detect_frontend.py <project root>

It finds:

• React, Vue, Angular and Svelte apps (a package.json that lists one);
• a PyQt QWebEngineView host and the pages it shows;
• plain HTML pages and their stylesheets.

It skips node_modules, virtualenvs, dot folders (including .claude), build output, coverage and docs. For each frontend it prints:

• one line: location, stack (with web or desktop), main colours and font;
• then every token block: the file, the selector (dark blocks are marked) and the tokens.

Tokens come from:

• CSS custom properties, including Tailwind v4 @theme;
• <style> tags in pages, components and PyQt hosts;
• the colours in a Tailwind v3 config.

It doesn't read theme objects in JS/TS (MUI, styled-components). If it prints colours none found, look for one of those, or for colours hard-coded in rules, before you report.

2. Report, then ask keep or restyle

• No frontend: say "No existing frontend found." Don't ask keep or restyle.
• Frontend found: say the script's first line: "Frontend found at <path>, stack <stack>, colours <main tokens>." If it found more than one, report each and ask which one the dashboard joins.
• Then ask one question: keep its look, or restyle it? Don't name presets in this question. Colours are asked next, and only for restyle.
• Never ask desktop or web. The stack comes from the report: web means the web path, desktop means the PyQt path.
• No token blocks (every colour is hard-coded): say so. A restyle can't be token-only then, so recommend keep, or ask before you pull the colours into a new token block.

3. Where the page goes

Stack	Put the page
plain HTML	Next to the existing pages, for example web/dashboard.html.
React, Vue, Angular, Svelte	In the app's public/ folder (public/dashboard.html), so it is served as-is. Port it into the app's components only if the user asks: best effort, with the page as reference.
PyQt web view	Next to the host's page. Use the desktop path (bridge.py).

Don't edit existing pages to link to it. Tell the user the path to link from their nav.

4. Keep

The new page uses the project's look. No existing file changes. Skip the colour question.

• Fill the page's body{} block from the project's light tokens, and body.dark{} from its dark tokens. Copy the values, not var(--…) references: the page turns dark mode on with body.dark, which the project's own dark selector doesn't match. Above each block, note where the values came from, for example /* kept from web/css/theme.css */.

• Map each page token to the project token with the same role:

  Page token	Project token for
  --accent, --accent-2	the primary/brand colour, and its lighter or hover shade
  --accent-dark	the darkest brand shade (the log box background)
  --accent-soft, --accent-soft-2	the brand tint (secondary buttons) and its border
  --bg-top, --bg-mid, --bg-bottom	the page background; use the same value three times for a flat page
  --glass, --glass-strong	the card surface, and the raised or alternate surface
  --border, --ink, --muted	the border, the text and the muted text
  --ok, --warn, --bad and their -bg	success, warning and danger; keep the template's values if the project has none
  --font, --font-display	the body font and the heading font
  --header-*, --primary-bg, --nav-active-bg, --progress-bg	wherever the project shows its brand. A solid brand top bar, for example, is --header-bg:<brand>; --header-ink:#ffffff.
  --blur	none, unless the project uses frosted glass

• No match: run palette.py on the brand colour to get the accent family. Keep the Tebra Sky value for anything else.

• No dark tokens: put palette.py's dark accents on the Tebra Sky dark block.

• Web fonts: if the project loads its font with a <link> or @import, add the same line to the page's <head>.

5. Restyle

The existing files change only inside their token blocks.

1. Ask for colours (the skill's colour step): Tebra Sky, Superbill Ember or a custom hex.

2. Edit only the token lines that the detect report listed. Give each project token the chosen palette's value for its role (read the keep table from right to left):

   • the light block gets values from the palette's body{} block;
   • the dark block gets values from its body.dark{} block.

   Keep every token name, and keep any token the palette has no match for. Don't add blocks the project doesn't have.

3. Fonts: change only the font tokens. If the new font needs loading (Ember), add its <link> next to the project's other stylesheet links. That is the only other line that may change.

4. Leave hard-coded colours outside the token blocks alone, and list them for the user.

5. Build the new page with the palette's blocks from themes.md, the same way as when there is no frontend.

6. Show the user the diff of the existing files: git diff in a repo, otherwise each changed line. It must show only token lines, plus the font link if one was added.