For Claude Code

Claude Code reads context. Give it design context.

Claude Code already reads your `CLAUDE.md`. Aestheria, the design context layer, adds the missing half: a machine-readable design system, so it ships on-brand from the first prompt.

Claude Code knows your codebase. Not your product.

Claude Code is good at reading a repo and holding a plan across files. It will happily generate a settings page. What it has no way to know is that your product has a settings page pattern already, a spacing rhythm, a token for exactly this surface. Without that, it produces something plausible and off-system.

The result is the same failure every AI editor hits: the product forgets itself between prompts. Continuity is the thing that breaks first, and it breaks quietly.

The design half of your context files.

Aestheria extends the context Claude Code already reads. Alongside your CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, it adds tokens.css, components.css, and 6 SKILL agents that encode how the system is composed. Claude Code reads all of it as native context.

Now a prompt like "add a billing page" resolves against your actual tokens and components, not a generic guess. Aestheria preserves the design reasoning across prompts, editors, and models, so the tenth screen matches the first.

A whole system, day one.

443 tokens, 3 themes in light and dark, a full component library, 26+ visualizations, 21+ templates, and the SKILL agents that keep generations on-system. Starter context you own and edit, not a black box.

• 443 design tokens
• 3 themes, light and dark
• 26+ visualizations
• 21+ page templates
• 6 SKILL agents

Questions

How is this different from just writing a CLAUDE.md?

A CLAUDE.md carries instructions. Aestheria carries the whole design system in machine-readable form: 443 tokens, components, patterns, templates, and SKILL agents. It is the design context those instructions point at.

Does Claude Code read Aestheria automatically?

Yes. Aestheria ships AGENTS.md and CSS token files Claude Code reads as native project context. Drop the kit in root and it is available on the next prompt.

Can I customize the system?

Aestheria is starter context, not a finished system. You own every file and can edit it down to the token, then Claude Code generates against your version.