flux

Grounded stack guidance: Tailwind-layer Do/Don't + docs URLs via node <skills-root>/corpus-grounding/scripts/ground.mjs search --manifest <skills-root>/design-intelligence/data/manifest.json --stack html-tailwind "<topic>". See design-intelligence.

Positioning — dispatched, not standalone

flux is the primitive-library executor for projects on the Livewire + Flux stack. It is invoked by directives/ui/apply.ts once the design brief is locked, and revisited by review.ts / polish.ts during the design-review loop. It does not own the flow, does not drive the audit, and does not lock the design.

Concern	Owner
Audit + token inventory (mandatory pre-step)	existing-ui-audit
Design brief (layout / states / microcopy)	directives/ui/design.ts
Universal design heuristics	fe-design
Component logic / state / actions	livewire
Static Blade partials	blade-ui

When to use

Cite this skill when:

• The project depends on livewire/flux and directives/ui/apply.ts dispatches Flux primitives
• Building forms, modals, dropdowns, toasts, or other standard UI elements that Flux already provides

Do NOT use when:

• Raw Blade templates without Flux (use blade-ui skill)
• Livewire component logic / state (use livewire skill)
• React + shadcn (use react-shadcn-ui skill)
• Driving the full UI flow yourself — that is the directives/ui/ orchestrator

Procedure: Create a Flux view

Step 0: Inspect

1. Confirm Flux is installed — check composer.json for livewire/flux.
2. Check existing views — match Flux component usage patterns.
3. Check Flux docs — https://fluxui.dev/docs for latest API.

Step 1: Build the view

1. Use <flux:*> components instead of raw HTML.
2. Use variant prop for styling (not custom Tailwind for standard styles).
3. Use wire:model for Livewire binding.
4. Use label prop on form fields (accessibility).

Step 2: Validate

1. No raw HTML form elements where Flux equivalents exist.
2. No manual error rendering (Flux has built-in validation display).
3. No conflicting Tailwind classes overriding Flux styles.

Conventions

→ See guideline php/flux.md for component reference, variants, forms, icons.

Output format

1. Blade view using Flux components with correct props and slots
2. Livewire component class if interactive behavior is needed

Review pass — a11y findings + preview envelope

When this skill is dispatched by directives/ui/review.ts (test slot) or directives/ui/polish.ts (verify slot) — i.e. a review/polish run, not the initial apply — it also emits:

• state.ui_review.a11y — {violations: [{rule, selector, severity}, ...], severity_floor?, accepted_violations?}. Use the same (rule, selector) shape as state.ui_audit.a11y_baseline so the engine's de-dup matches pre-existing entries on replay. Omit the envelope on apply passes; the engine's _apply_a11y_gate only fires when a baseline is present.
• state.ui_review.preview — {render_ok: bool, screenshot_path?, dom_dump_path?, error?, skipped?}. render_ok: false with error populated triggers the preview_render_failed halt; render_ok: true with screenshot_path threads the screenshot into the delivery report's artifacts list. Browser tooling (Playwright/Cypress/…) is a consumer-project dependency — this package does not ship one.

Polish dispatch: when the dispatcher skips review because a previous review pass already returned SUCCESS, this skill MUST itself synthesise the updated state.ui_review.findings (including any remaining a11y_violation entries) so the engine's gate sees the current state on the next polish round.

Gotcha

• The model tends to use old Flux API syntax — always check latest docs.
• Flux has built-in validation display — don't add manual error rendering alongside it.
• Don't mix Flux with raw HTML form elements in the same form.

Taste Dials

When DESIGN.md declares ## Taste Dials, honour them: Variance → layout-family spread + asymmetry tolerance; Motion → animation budget + reduced-motion posture; Density → spacing scale + information-per-viewport. Absent → follow the design brief's inferred dials.

Do NOT

• Do NOT use raw <input>, <select>, <button> when Flux equivalents exist.
• Do NOT override Flux styles with conflicting Tailwind — use variants or slots.
• Do NOT skip the label prop on form fields — accessibility.

Anti-slop

Flux primitives carry sane defaults, but composition still drifts into slop — pull docs/guidelines/design-antipatterns.md and check Layout (L1/L2 hero-metric + identical-card grids) and Color (C1 gradient defaults) before shipping. Tailwind-level bans: tailwind-engineer.

Auto-trigger keywords

• Flux UI
• Livewire components
• Flux component
• Laravel Flux