Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Add skill: generate custom styles from app design system

Open
#19 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
css, typescript
Domain
design, frontend

Research direction

Start with the existing style definitions in renderer.ts and widget-renderer.tsx, then inspect apps/mcp/skills/, server.ts, assemble_document, and the README. Trace how MCP prompts and theme data are registered and applied. Done means the new skill and prompt are available, overrides can be applied by assemble_document, and the README includes a usage example.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Summary

Create a new agent skill that analyzes the host application's existing styles (colors, typography, spacing, borders, etc.) and generates matching CSS/design tokens for UI component generation. This would allow the assemble_document tool to produce widgets that visually match the consuming application rather than using the default OpenGenerativeUI theme.

Motivation

Currently, renderer.ts ships a hardcoded design system (forked from widget-renderer.tsx). When users integrate the MCP server into their own apps, the generated widgets look like OpenGenerativeUI — not like their app. A style-extraction skill would close this gap by letting the agent adapt generated UI to the host app's look and feel.

Proposed approach

  • Add a new skill file (skills/custom-styles-skill.txt) with instructions for:
    • Extracting CSS custom properties, Tailwind config, or design tokens from the host app
    • Mapping extracted values to the OpenGenerativeUI CSS variable schema (--color-*, --font-*, --border-radius-*)
    • Generating a theme override block that assemble_document can merge with the base styles
  • Expose the skill via a new MCP prompt (e.g. customize_theme)
  • Optionally extend the assemble_document tool to accept a themeOverrides parameter

Acceptance criteria

  • New skill file in apps/mcp/skills/
  • Registered as an MCP prompt in server.ts
  • Agent can read a target app's styles and produce a compatible CSS override
  • assemble_document supports applying the override
  • README updated with usage example
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
1.6k
Forks
202
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from CopilotKit/OpenGenerativeUI

All issues in CopilotKit/OpenGenerativeUI

Similar issues

More TypeScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.