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Variant Class Generator

Declare a component's variants once instead of scattering conditionals through its markup.

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What it adds

A declarative variant definition per component mapping size, tone, and state to the classes each combination produces.

What your agent is told to do

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    Find the components whose markup is threaded with conditional class logic and replace that logic with a single declaration listing each variant, its options, and its default.

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    Support combinations that are more than the sum of their parts, so a specific pairing of size and tone can produce classes that neither produces alone, without reintroducing a conditional in the markup.

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    Make invalid combinations impossible to express rather than merely undesirable, and give the component a defined appearance when it receives a combination it does not recognise.

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    Publish the variant options as the component's contract for callers while keeping the class strings themselves private, so the classes can be changed without touching a single call site.

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    Hand the final composition of the generated classes with caller-supplied ones to Class Merge Helper rather than resolving precedence here. This feature decides which classes a variant produces; that one decides which classes win.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Compound variants are the reason hand-written conditionals appear in the first place — the small size in the destructive tone needing a different border, and nothing else needing it. If the declaration cannot express that pairing, the conditional comes straight back into the markup.
  • Combinations that are not meant to exist, such as a ghost tone with an elevated surface, must be rejected at authoring time. Left permitted, they will be used, and the component will be expected to support them forever.
  • Generated output must not become one large object that pulls every component's variants into every bundle. Keep each component's definition independently removable so unused ones never ship.
  • The types a caller sees must name the variants and their options and nothing else. Leaking the class strings into the public type makes them part of the contract and freezes them.
  • Defaults must be explicit for every variant, because a component rendered with no props at all is the most common case in the app and must still look right.
  • State that is not a variant — focus, hover, disabled, loading — should stay in the class definition rather than becoming a prop the caller has to pass.
  • A variant added or renamed later must not silently change the appearance of existing call sites that relied on the previous default.

Definition of done

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  • Each converted component has one declaration covering its variants, options, and defaults.
  • No conditional class logic remains in the markup of converted components.
  • Compound combinations are expressible in the declaration itself.
  • Invalid combinations are rejected at authoring time, and unknown values render a defined fallback.
  • Unused component definitions are removed from the shipped bundle.
  • Public types expose variant names and options but not the underlying class strings.
  • Final class composition is delegated to Class Merge Helper.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

Related features

How it works

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    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

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    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

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    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.