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Preview the Design Convention

Renders a real Egregore artifact through this branch's MERIDIAN render path (packages/egregore-artifacts local code) — deliberately not npx egregore-artifacts, which pulls the published npm 0.10.2 (the OLD design). This is the test vector for Design Convention Round 1: testers see the new design on real output before it merges.

Full protocol: memory/feedback/design-convention-r1/GUIDE.md.

When to invoke

User says: "/preview-design", "preview the design convention", "render <X> with the new design", "let me test the new design on a document / handoff / board", or is running the design-convention round-1 test.

What it does

Run the bundled script — it handles dependency install and routes to the local CLI:

bash skills/preview-design/render.sh <surface> [file]

Surface	Command	Input
document	render.sh document [file.md]	any markdown — defaults to a bundled sample
handoff	render.sh handoff [file.json]	a handoff-v1 JSON — defaults to a bundled sample
platform	render.sh platform	reads memory/board/board.json (the board view)
emissary	render.sh emissary	harness-only this round — prints the harness URL and stops

The CLI opens the rendered HTML in the browser. After looking it over, the tester runs the Socratic feedback protocol ("Run the Design Convention feedback protocol").

Why it's built this way

• Local, never npx. It runs node packages/egregore-artifacts/bin/cli.js, so you always get THIS branch's MERIDIAN design — npm's egregore-artifacts is the old look.
• Lives in top-level skills/, not .claude/skills/. /update replaces .claude/skills/ wholesale from upstream (git checkout upstream -- .claude/skills/), which would delete an org-local preview command. Top-level skills/ survives.
• Emissary is excluded on purpose. Its renderer (api/main.py) is server-side and not yet design-system-wired — wiring it is the #1 Round-2 task. For now it's reviewed via the published harness.

Lifecycle

Retire this skill once the Design Convention merges to production and a new egregore-artifacts is published (at which point plain /view shows MERIDIAN and the local-vs-npm distinction disappears).