Design Extractor: Extracting Website Design Systems into DESIGN.md for AI Agents

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Design Extractor analyzes live public websites and extracts their design systems into a structured DESIGN.md file. Combining machine-readable YAML tokens with markdown guidelines, it provides AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor with clear UI constraints.

Key points

  1. Generates a DESIGN.md document from any public URL, featuring YAML front matter for design tokens (colors, typography, spacing) and markdown text for design rationale.
  2. Standard output covers eight canonical sections: Overview, Colors, Typography, Layout, Elevation and Depth, Shapes, Components, and Do's and Don'ts.
  3. Requires no SDK or plugins; files can be dropped into repository directories for AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or Devin to read.
  4. Integrates directly via a Chrome browser extension and an MCP server compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, ChatGPT, and Codex.
  5. Operates on a credit-based model offering Lite (single page) and Pro (key pages) extractions.

Why it matters

AI coding assistants frequently struggle with visual consistency when generating frontends. Establishing machine-readable, human-editable design documentation gives agents clear rules and eliminates manual token transcription from live websites.

Analysis

By framing DESIGN.md as the design-system parallel to AGENTS.md, Design Extractor addresses a key friction point in agentic web development. The provision of an MCP endpoint allows developer agents to query and retrieve styling rules programmatically. However, current extraction capabilities remain limited to public URLs, excluding authenticated pages and local dev environments.

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