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31 changes: 18 additions & 13 deletions .claude/skills/mosaic/references/stylex.md
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Expand Up @@ -70,14 +70,17 @@ it gives consumers stable `--cl-*` vars to override in plain CSS:
const colorDefaults = {
// one value carries light + dark; resolves against the in-scope `color-scheme`,
// so dark mode lives in the token, no `@media (prefers-color-scheme)` copy.
'--cl-color-primary': 'light-dark(oklch(0.205 0 0), oklch(0.922 0 0))',
'--cl-color-brand': 'light-dark(oklch(0.2046 0 0), oklch(0.9851 0 0))',
} as const;
export const colorVars = stylex.defineVars(colorDefaults);
```

- **DO** put light + dark in one token value via `light-dark()`. Never ship a
second `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` copy of a color.
- **DO** reserve `--cl-*`-prefixed keys for the public, overridable contract.
- **DO** point a gray-backed colour token at the internal `gray` scale
(`light-dark(${gray['900']}, ${gray['50']})`) rather than restating the oklch value.
Its keys are unprefixed on purpose, so the names hash and stay un-overridable.
- **DO** name internal, non-contract vars with a `--_cl-*` prefix (e.g. a value a
parent writes for a child to read). They still emit verbatim but the `_` marks
them "not a contract, don't override."
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wrapping controls. A role name survives a value change; `--cl-radius-md` doesn't.
- **DO** compute tints at the call site with `color-mix()`, not as their own
tokens. `color-mix(in oklab, ${primary}, ${fg} 12%)` beats minting
`--cl-color-primary-hover-12`.
`--cl-color-brand-hover-12`.
- **DON'T** mint a per-step derivative token for something a `calc()`/`color-mix()`
can express from an existing token.
- **DON'T** give one value two public names. The focus ring's colour is
`--cl-color-ring` and nothing else — a `--cl-focus-outline-color` alias beside it
would let a consumer override one and not the other, and the ring's appearance
would then depend on which they picked.
- **DO** build a fill that sits _on top of_ an unknown backdrop — a hover or pressed
wash on a transparent `outline`/`ghost` control — as a **scrim**: an opacity of
black-on-light / white-on-dark over `transparent`, not a percentage of a gray token.
wash on a transparent `outline`/`ghost` control — from the `--cl-color-neutral-alpha-*`
tokens: `--cl-color-neutral` (black on light, white on dark) at a fixed opacity over
`transparent`, not a percentage of a gray token. Status colors have the same three
steps (`--cl-color-negative-alpha-100` …).

```ts
const step = `color-mix(in oklab, light-dark(oklch(0 0 0), oklch(1 0 0)) 12%, transparent)`;
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-300'],
```

A gray token like `--cl-color-neutral` is a 900, not black, so the same percentage of
A gray token like `--cl-color-foreground` is a 900, not black, so the same percentage of
it lands lighter than the percentage of black — and by an amount that shifts with
whatever the control sits on, so the step numbers stop describing what they render.
The scrim composites, so one ramp reads consistently on every surface. This applies
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it's the only way to get a scale that is both shared across components and free
of per-step vars.

**Reference tokens by bracket string key**, always: `colorVars['--cl-color-primary']`,
**Reference tokens by bracket string key**, always: `colorVars['--cl-color-brand']`,
`space['2']`. A computed key (`colorVars[name]`) defeats StyleX static analysis
and won't compile.

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});
// variant map: keyed by the prop value, indexed at the call site
const variants = stylex.create({
primary: { backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-primary'] },
primary: { backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-brand'] },
secondary: { backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-secondary'] },
});
const sizes = stylex.create({
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inlines it at build, so the duplication leaves the source without emitting a var:

```ts
const primaryHover = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-primary']}, ${colorVars['--cl-color-primary-foreground']} 12%)`;
const primaryHover = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-brand']}, ${colorVars['--cl-color-brand-foreground']} 12%)`;
```

Same-file is required — an imported one fails static evaluation ("Atoms" above).
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```ts
backgroundColor: {
default: colorVars['--cl-color-primary'],
default: colorVars['--cl-color-brand'],
':active': primaryActive,
'@media (hover: hover)': {
// the media block contributes only the pseudo; the top-level `default` still
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```ts
backgroundColor: {
default: 'transparent',
':enabled:active': neutralStep1,
':enabled[data-open]': neutralStep1,
':enabled:active': colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-200'],
':enabled[data-open]': colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-200'],
'@media (hover: hover)': {
default: null,
':enabled:hover:not(:active):not([data-open])': neutralStep0,
':enabled:hover:not(:active):not([data-open])': colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-100'],
},
},
```
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| `Banner.Label` | `neutral` \| `warning` \| `negative` |
| `Banner.Description` | `neutral` \| `warning` \| `negative` |

The fill is a 4% mix of the color's token rather than its `-faded` surface, so a banner tints whatever it sits on instead of painting over it, and it inverts with the token in dark mode. Retheme a color by overriding the token it reads — `--cl-color-negative`, `--cl-color-warning`, or `--cl-color-neutral` (plus `--cl-color-border`, which draws the neutral hairline) — and the fill, border, icon, and copy all move together.
Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the neutral wash with the correct token source.

The new neutralAlpha scale is derived from --cl-color-neutral, which uses black in light mode and white in dark mode. This paragraph instead describes the neutral fill as a mix of --cl-color-foreground. Consumers following this guidance can produce a different wash and contrast result.

Describe the fill as the 4% neutralAlpha wash derived from --cl-color-neutral.

Proposed documentation fix
-Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
+Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is the 4% `neutralAlpha` wash derived from `--cl-color-neutral`, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
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Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is the 4% `neutralAlpha` wash derived from `--cl-color-neutral`, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
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In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/banner.mdx` at line 62, Update the neutral
color guidance in the banner documentation to describe its fill as the 4%
neutralAlpha wash derived from --cl-color-neutral, replacing the incorrect
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this correct? where are we doing mix(--cl-color-foreground, bg_color, 4%) ?

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

ast-grep outline packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts --items all
ast-grep outline packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts --items all

printf '\n--- neutralAlpha and color token definitions ---\n'
rg -n -C 12 -- '--cl-color-neutral|neutralAlpha|foreground:' packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts

printf '\n--- Banner neutral styles and imports ---\n'
rg -n -C 12 -- 'neutral|neutralAlpha|colorMix|backgroundColor' packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts

Length of output: 6561


@maxyinger, the implementation does not mix --cl-color-foreground.

packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts Line 48 uses neutralAlpha['4'].

packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts Line 90 defines it as:

color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-neutral) 4%, transparent)

The transparent result composites over the banner’s existing background. It is therefore a 4% neutral wash, not a 4% foreground wash. The documentation should reference neutralAlpha and --cl-color-neutral, as the original finding states.

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Expand Up @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import * as IconFrameStories from './icon-frame.stories';

# IconFrame

IconFrame centers an icon or other visual in a square Mosaic surface. `bordered` and `filled` are independent treatments, while `size` controls the frame dimensions. The default is a bordered 40px frame; the filled treatment uses `oklch(0.9702 0 0)` in light mode and `oklch(0.2393 0 0)` in dark mode.
IconFrame centers an icon or other visual in a square Mosaic surface. `bordered` and `filled` are independent treatments, while `size` controls the frame dimensions. The default is a bordered 40px frame; the filled treatment uses `--cl-color-background-subtle`.

## Playground

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Expand Up @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ export function CustomSurface() {
return (
<IconFrame
style={{
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-primary'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-primary-foreground'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-brand'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-brand-foreground'],
}}
>
<Icon
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Expand Up @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ The root reflects its state as `data-*` attributes on `.cl-item`, so consumers c
```css
/* Re-theme interactive rows */
.cl-item[data-interactive] {
background-color: var(--cl-color-card);
background-color: var(--cl-color-background);
}

/* Widen the media column on compact rows */
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Expand Up @@ -153,13 +153,13 @@ can drive itself from them.
}
.cl-item-group::before {
top: 0;
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-card-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
opacity: var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-start);
transform: translateY(calc((var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-start) - 1) * var(--cl-scroll-fade-size)));
}
.cl-item-group::after {
bottom: 0;
background: linear-gradient(to top, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-card-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
background: linear-gradient(to top, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
opacity: var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-end);
transform: translateY(calc((1 - var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-end)) * var(--cl-scroll-fade-size)));
}
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slides out from behind its own edge as it fades in. Clip the root — `overflow: hidden` — so the half
that is still offscreen stays there.

Mix the scrim from a theme colour rather than hardcoding black: `--cl-color-card-foreground` inverts
Mix the scrim from a theme colour rather than hardcoding black: `--cl-color-foreground` inverts
with the theme, so one declaration reads as a shadow on light and a soft glow on dark, where black
would vanish.

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Expand Up @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ export function ThemedScrollbar() {

/**
* The mask retired for overlay scrims, each reading the progress var for its edge. The scrim mixes
* from `--cl-color-card-foreground`, so it reads as a shadow on light and a glow on dark;
* from `--cl-color-foreground`, so it reads as a shadow on light and a glow on dark;
* hardcoded black would vanish on a dark surface. `overflow: hidden` on the root keeps the scrims
* inside its rounded corners.
*
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}
.demo-scroll-shadows .cl-item-group::before {
top: 0;
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-card-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
opacity: var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-start);
transform: translateY(calc((var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-start) - 1) * var(--cl-scroll-fade-size)));
}
.demo-scroll-shadows .cl-item-group::after {
bottom: 0;
background: linear-gradient(to top, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-card-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
background: linear-gradient(to top, color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-foreground) 22%, transparent), transparent);
opacity: var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-end);
transform: translateY(calc((1 - var(--cl-scroll-area-progress-end)) * var(--cl-scroll-fade-size)));
}
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Expand Up @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ export const styles = stylex.create({
fallback: {
borderRadius: 'inherit',
alignItems: 'center',
backgroundColor: `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-neutral']} 8%, transparent)`,
color: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-200'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-foreground'],
display: 'flex',
justifyContent: 'center',
height: '100%',
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borderWidth: '1px',
overflow: 'hidden',
alignItems: 'center',
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-card'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-background'],
boxSizing: 'border-box',
display: 'flex',
insetBlockEnd: `calc(${space['2']} * -1)`,
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Expand Up @@ -2,14 +2,12 @@ import * as stylex from '@stylexjs/stylex';

import { colorVars, fontFamilyVars, fontWeightVars, radiusVars, space, typeScaleVars } from '../../tokens.stylex';

// warning/negative/positive tint a faded fill and use the saturated token as text;
// warning/negative/positive fill with the subtle surface and use the saturated token as text;
// primary fills with the solid token and uses its `-foreground` for text.
//
// Neutral has no faded surface to tint — `--cl-color-neutral-faded` is a text gray, and its
// Neutral has no subtle surface to fill — `--cl-color-foreground-secondary` is a text gray, and its
// `-foreground` is a text color rather than an on-fill one, so it is unreadable against the solid
// 900. It rides the same black/white scrim the button's neutral fill does, which composites against
// any backdrop. Must be a local binding — StyleX inlines it; an imported one fails to compile.
const neutralScrim = `color-mix(in oklab, light-dark(oklch(0 0 0), oklch(1 0 0)) 6%, transparent)`;
// 900. It rides the same neutral scrim the button's neutral fill does.
export const styles = stylex.create({
base: {
borderRadius: radiusVars['--cl-radius-full'],
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export const colors = stylex.create({
primary: {
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-primary'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-primary-foreground'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-brand'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-brand-foreground'],
},
neutral: {
backgroundColor: neutralScrim,
color: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-foreground'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-100'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-foreground'],
},
warning: {
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-warning-faded'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-warning-subtle'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-warning'],
},
negative: {
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-negative-faded'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-negative-subtle'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-negative'],
},
positive: {
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-positive-faded'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-positive-subtle'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-positive'],
},
});
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Expand Up @@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ import * as stylex from '@stylexjs/stylex';

import { colorVars, fontFamilyVars, fontWeightVars, radiusVars, space, typeScaleVars } from '../../tokens.stylex';

const neutralFill = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-neutral']} 4%, transparent)`;
const warningFill = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-warning']} 4%, transparent)`;
const negativeFill = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-negative']} 4%, transparent)`;
const warningBorder = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-warning']} 20%, transparent)`;
const negativeBorder = `color-mix(in oklab, ${colorVars['--cl-color-negative']} 20%, transparent)`;

export const styles = stylex.create({
root: {
borderRadius: radiusVars['--cl-radius-lg'],
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export const rootColors = stylex.create({
neutral: {
borderColor: colorVars['--cl-color-border'],
backgroundColor: neutralFill,
color: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-foreground'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-alpha-100'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-foreground'],
},
warning: {
borderColor: warningBorder,
backgroundColor: warningFill,
borderColor: colorVars['--cl-color-warning-border'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-warning-subtle'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-warning'],
},
negative: {
borderColor: negativeBorder,
backgroundColor: negativeFill,
borderColor: colorVars['--cl-color-negative-border'],
backgroundColor: colorVars['--cl-color-negative-subtle'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-negative'],
},
});

export const descriptionColors = stylex.create({
neutral: { color: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-faded'] },
neutral: { color: colorVars['--cl-color-foreground-secondary'] },
warning: { color: colorVars['--cl-color-warning'] },
negative: { color: colorVars['--cl-color-negative'] },
});
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export const styles = stylex.create({
// The mark only: text and link. Where it sits (a card's foot, a sidebar's) is the host's call.
base: {
color: colorVars['--cl-color-neutral-faded'],
color: colorVars['--cl-color-foreground-secondary'],
display: 'inline-block',
fontSize: typeScaleVars['--cl-text-xs-size'],
lineHeight: typeScaleVars['--cl-text-xs-leading'],
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