Devs who used to avoid frontend now ship full UIs. AI teams spin up proofs of concept in an afternoon. Even non-engineers generate HTML pages to share ideas.

Everyone builds UI now. That's a good thing. More people building means more ideas get tested.

But there's a catch. Most of it doesn't look like the product. Different colors, random fonts, default component library styles, five apps that should feel like one.

Here's how one team went from a CSS question to a one-command skill.

"Ask whoever owns the design system first" doesn't scale

The obvious fix is a process one: if you're building UI, ask whoever owns the design system first.

It rarely works. Asking a person means waiting. Generating a screen takes seconds. When the fastest path skips the review, people take the fastest path. They're not wrong to.

The problem isn't discipline. It's that the design system lives in a place the agent can't reach.

"Can you send me the CSS?"

Then the request shows up.…