The design intelligence protocol.
From service design to shipped code -- one system, zero handoffs.
AI agents don't have taste. They guess at colors, spacing, hierarchy. Rafters encodes a designer's judgment into queryable intelligence so AI reads decisions instead of guessing.
The pipeline:
- Service Design -- blueprints, ecosystems, moments of truth as structured data
- Studio -- design your design system. Spacing progressions, type scales, color relationships, motion philosophy. The first tool in this category.
- Composites -- reusable UI patterns with embedded intelligence (cognitive load, do/never rules, trust patterns)
- Registry --
pnpx rafters adddelivers components into your framework with intelligence attached - MCP Tools -- AI agents query the protocol directly: vocabulary, patterns, components, tokens, cognitive budget
- rafters.studio -- documentation and registry
- api.rafters.studio -- color intelligence API
Rafters is free and open source. Public repositories are licensed under AGPL-3.0 or MIT.