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Refactoring pass — extracts repeated Tailwind class combos and markup into components, and lifts magic values into design tokens. Use when the codebase has obvious duplication, hardcoded hex values or pixel sizes, or when the user says \"clean this up\" / \"extract components\"

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$ npx -y skills add educlopez/ui-craft --skill extract --agent claude-code

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  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/extract

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Refactoring pass — extracts repeated Tailwind class combos and markup into components, and lifts magic values into design tokens. Use when the codebase has obvious duplication, hardcoded hex values or pixel sizes, or when the user says \"clean this up\" / \"extract components\"

SKILL.md

extract.SKILL.md
name: extract
description: "Refactoring pass — extracts repeated Tailwind class combos and markup into components, and lifts magic values into design tokens. Use when the codebase has obvious duplication, hardcoded hex values or pixel sizes, or when the user says \"clean this up\" / \"extract components\" / \"tokenize styles\". Invoke when the user asks for extract on their UI, or mentions 'extract' alongside design / UI / frontend work."

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**Context:** this sub-skill is one lens of the broader `ui-craft` skill. If the `ui-craft` skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.

Extract reusable pieces from `$ARGUMENTS`. Load the `ui-craft` skill.

**Step 1 — Scan the target for extraction candidates:**

  • **Repeated Tailwind class combos** — any class string that appears ≥3 times becomes a component (or a `cva`/`tv` variant if the project uses one — check first).
  • **Magic values** — hex colors, pixel sizes, shadow definitions, font sizes, z-index values appearing in literal form. Lift into CSS variables or `theme.extend`.
  • **Repeated markup** — blocks that differ only by text/props collapse into a single component with props.

**Step 2 — Match the project's conventions, don't impose new ones:**

  • **Naming** — look at neighboring components. PascalCase file? kebab-case file? Named export vs default export? Match exactly.
  • **Location** — check `components/ui/`, `ui/`, `primitives/`, `src/components/` before creating a new directory. Reuse.
  • **Tokens** — respect existing CSS variable naming (`--color-*`, `--space-*`, `--font-*`, `--radius-*`). Don't introduce a parallel system.

**Step 3 — Anti-Slop Test on every new component** (from SKILL.md):

  • Component name must be domain-specific, not generic. `MetricCard` / `PricingTier` / `InviteRow` beats `Card` / `Box` / `Item`.
  • If the component is generic ("a card with a title and description"), ask yourself whether it should instead be an inline composition — premature abstraction is worse than repetition.

**Step 4 — Update every call-site.** No half-migrations.

**Knob-agnostic** — DRY is not tunable.

**References to read**: `references/layout.md` (composition patterns), `references/typography.md` and `references/color.md` (token naming), plus the project's existing component library (scan before writing).

**Output**: 1. The new component file(s) + any token additions. 2. A table showing every call-site update:

| File | Before | After | | --- | --- | --- |

3. A one-line delta: "Extracted N components, M tokens. Call-sites updated: X."

**Next step:** `/tokens` — lift the values you just centralized into the token spine (rung 2).

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