Clean Slate

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Pure flat design system: crisp white surfaces, single accent color, geometric sans-serif, zero ornamentation, maximum content clarity

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Design Language
Clean Slate is built on a single conviction: **content is the design.**

Every interface decision flows from this principle. The surface should disappear. The chrome should vanish. What remains is the user's work — their tasks, their data, their words — presented with absolute clarity on a white plane.

This is not minimalism as aesthetic preference. It is minimalism as engineering discipline. Every border exists because it communicates structure. Every pixel of whitespace exists because it creates breathing room for comprehension. The single blue accent exists because the user needs to know what they can interact with. Nothing else is needed.

Flat design, as practiced in Clean Slate, rejects the metaphor of physical depth. There are no shadows to simulate paper stacking. There are no gradients to imply light sources. There is no neumorphism, no glassmorphism, no skeuomorphism of any kind. There are white surfaces, thin borders, and one color that means "you can click this."

The result is an interface that feels fast, honest, and calm. It does not compete with the user's attention. It serves it.

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Agent instructions (SKILL.md)(advanced)
Design Skill
Clean Slate is pure flat design. Content is the interface. Every pixel of ornamentation you remove makes the user's work more visible. Your job is to build surfaces that disappear — white planes separated by thin borders, one blue accent for interaction, and nothing else.

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