# tinte

> Compile your design system into an Agent Plugin. Also the classic Tinte theme installer for VS Code, Cursor, and Zed.

Latest version **1.3.0** (published 2026-08-07) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install tinte
pnpm add tinte
yarn add tinte
bun add tinte
```

Provides the command `tinte`.

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; has provenance; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.3.0 |
| Published | 2026-08-07 |
| First published | 2023-10-14 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >=16.0.0 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 1.6 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 620 |
| Author | Tinte |
| Maintainers | raillyhugo_ |
| Keywords | vscode, cursor, zed, theme, cli, tinte, colors, development, tools, editor |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tinte
- Repository: https://github.com/Railly/tinte
- Homepage: https://tinte.dev
- Issues: https://github.com/Railly/tinte/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/tinte

## Dependencies (1)

- [culori](https://npm.io/package/culori.md) ^4.0.2

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## Recent versions

- 1.3.0 (latest) — 2026-08-07
- 1.2.0 — 2025-10-06
- 1.1.1 — 2025-10-05
- 1.1.0 — 2025-10-05
- 1.0.4 — 2025-09-23
- 1.0.3 — 2025-09-23
- 1.0.2 — 2025-09-23
- 1.0.1 — 2025-09-23
- 1.0.0 — 2025-09-23
- 0.1.0 — 2023-10-14

## README

<h3 align="center">
  <a href="https://tinte.dev" target="_blank">
    <img src="https://github.com/Railly/tinte/blob/main/apps/web/src/app/icon.svg" width="80" alt="Tinte Logo"/>
  </a>
  <br/>
  <span style="font-weight:600;font-size:20px;color:#2563EB;">tinte</span>
  <br/>
  <br/>
  <a href="https://vercel.com/oss" target="_blank">
    <img src="https://vercel.com/oss/program-badge.svg" alt="Vercel OSS Program"/>
  </a>
</h3>

<p align="center">
  Compile your design system into an Agent Plugin. Also the classic Tinte theme installer for VS Code, Cursor, and Zed.
</p>

## Install

```bash
bunx tinte <command>
```

No install step required. For a global binary:

```bash
bun add -g tinte
```

## Quickstart

### Compile an identity into an Agent Plugin

Reads `./tinte.config.json` (a Tinte identity) and emits a plugin directory a coding agent can load.

```bash
bunx tinte build --plugin
```

Writes `plugin.json`, `skills/<name>-design/SKILL.md`, and `skills/<name>-design/references/tokens.css`.

Without `--plugin` it emits the two loose artifacts instead:

```bash
bunx tinte build
```

Writes `design.md` and `tokens.css`.

Flags: `--config <path>` (default `./tinte.config.json`), `--out <dir>` (default `./<name>-plugin`).

### Lint what bypasses the token system

Scans source files for hardcoded colors that should be tokens. Exits `1` when violations are found, so it works as a CI gate.

```bash
bunx tinte lint
bunx tinte lint src/ app/
bunx tinte lint --json
```

### Extract an identity from a reference

Two steps. First print the browser extraction script, run it against a live page with [agent-browser](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser) or any DOM evaluator, and save the result:

```bash
bunx tinte from --emit-script > extract.js
```

Then normalize the captured candidates into a draft identity:

```bash
bunx tinte from --normalize candidates.json --name acme --out tinte.config.json
```

Without `--out` the identity is printed to stdout.

### Install a theme into your editor

The classic installer. Accepts a theme slug, a URL, or a local JSON file.

```bash
bunx tinte flexoki-theme                # VS Code (default)
bunx tinte flexoki-theme --cursor       # Cursor
bunx tinte flexoki-theme --zed          # Zed
bunx tinte flexoki-theme --light        # light variant (default: dark)
bunx tinte https://tinte.dev/api/themes/slug/flexoki-theme
bunx tinte ./my-theme.json --zed
```

Other flags: `--close` auto-closes the editor after install, `--timeout=<ms>` sets the delay (default `3000`).

Housekeeping:

```bash
bunx tinte list       # list installed Tinte themes
bunx tinte cleanup    # remove temporary theme files
```

## For agents

There is an official Tinte skill. Install it into your project:

```bash
npx skills add Railly/tinte
```

This installs the `tinte` skill (and `ray`, the preview companion) into `.agents/skills/`, readable by Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agent runtimes.

The same skill is served over HTTP at [tinte.dev/api/skill](https://tinte.dev/api/skill).

For an example of what `tinte build` produces, see [tinte.dev/design.md](https://tinte.dev/design.md) - the design system of tinte.dev itself, compiled by this CLI.

## Links

- Repository: [github.com/Railly/tinte](https://github.com/Railly/tinte)
- Site: [tinte.dev](https://tinte.dev)

## License

MIT

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