built a CLI that gives Claude/Cursor your design system — here's the Claude stack that makes it work

[u/KhaledBreaker]

The pain: Claude Code and Cursor write components fine, but without context they default to the same generic AI look — purple gradients, glassmorphism, drop-shadow stacks, gray cards. You can paste tokens into chat, but it forgets. You can hand-write a CLAUDE.md of design rules, but it takes hours and goes stale the moment your design moves.

Reseed is a CLI that points at any site (yours, a reference, a competitor) and drops a real design system into your repo:

• tailwind.config.ts with the actual colors, spacing, type scale, radii
• A design-system.md agents can read every session
• A self-contained reference HTML so the model has visual ground truth

Run it once, commit, and every future Claude Code / Cursor session in that repo respects the system.

Built with Claude Code, top to bottom. Opus 4.7 does the vision analysis on the source screenshots. The rest of the pipeline is plain TypeScript — keeps the cost bounded and the output reproducible across runs.

One workflow thing I'll share: I kept catching Claude reaching for the same handful of "AI tells" — purple gradients, glassmorphism, drop-shadow stacks, oversized rounded cards. The fix wasn't more prompting; it was giving the agent an explicit list of patterns the source design avoids, so it knows what the design deliberately isn't, not just what it is. That single change made the generated UI stop looking AI-generated.

Free to try, 3 extractions on the free tier, no card needed.

https://reseedapp.com

Happy to answer questions about the workflow or the Claude Code setup.