Styling — UnoCSS Attributify Mode (MANDATORY)

Settled — do not re-propose

• A check for an attribute on a component that generates no rule — it is as likely one of the component's props as a misspelt utility, and telling the two apart needs the component's prop list no template extraction has; a native element is apps/web/app/templates.test.ts, and every inert family met so far is the blocklist (the unocss skill, references/blocklist.md).
• A rule for theme primitive vs bespoke colour — needs the palette in mind and a judgement about intent.
• A rule for a fixed dimension on a layout region — what a region is, is the judgement.

Deep Dives

• references/layout.md — when laying out a page, panel, sidebar or column split, sizing a region, drawing a border or finding one you did not ask for, or building a row that reads as one sentence.
• references/utility-vocabulary.md — when two spellings say the same thing: an abbreviation, a named step against a numeric one, a directional gap, or a slash value.
• references/images.md — when adding or sizing an image.
• references/theme-utilities.md — when reaching for a type size, a token or palette colour, a named opacity, or muted text.
• references/style-blocks.md — when a component genuinely needs a <style> block, or a scoped rule or :deep() does not apply.
• references/arbitrary-values.md — when a utility needs an arbitrary [...] value: calc(), a CSS variable, a transition, or !important.
• references/css-custom-properties.md — when a <style> block needs a shared value, and a SASS variable looks like the way to reach it.
• references/lengths.md — when writing an authored length, or sizing an empty element on a flex axis.
• references/class-attribute.md — when a style seems to need class or a scoped rule, or a utility is switched on a condition.
• references/links.md — when styling a link or inline text that runs an action.
• references/state-variants.md — when a colour changes with state, or a shaded cell also takes a tint.
• references/spacing.md — when spacing siblings or reaching for a margin.

Core Rules

• Prop-based styling for ALL static styles: <div text-red p-4>. Where UnoCSS attributes sit relative to component props is the vue skill's template attribute order (references/ordering.md).
• size attribute (or width/height props) instead of w-<n> / h-<n> where possible. They are authored lengths, so they take rem — size="4rem".
• Prefer simple named utilities over arbitrary values. Avoid arbitrary shadows, gradients, dimensions, border widths, and z-index unless the layout needs them. Don't add z-index defensively; rely on DOM order and positioning first.
• Prefer theme primitives over bespoke styling: the library's surfaces (ui-frame, ui-card) and type for card/panel/surface backgrounds (the ui-library skill, references/surfaces.md); token colours (bg-background, b-border, text-accent, text-muted) before custom colours. A surface is a library surface, never bg-panel on a <div>, and no page paints its own background (references/layout.md).
• Avoid arbitrary hex/RGB/RGBA, custom shadows, and one-off background/border colours in app UI. A colour a template needs is a token, and one the tokens lack is a new token rather than a raw value (the ui-library skill, references/tokens.md).
• Never hardcode a fixed dimension to lay out a region (sidebar/panel/column split) — references/layout.md. Arbitrary dimensions are a last resort for true format constraints (aspect-video, viewport-safe containers, canvas/game surfaces, third-party embeds); first check whether the component hierarchy or flex/grid structure is wrong.
• An empty element sized along a flex axis takes shrink-0 (references/lengths.md).
• Always rem, never px, for every authored length; px survives only where the unit is not ours to choose (references/lengths.md).
• A viewport height is dvh, never vh or h-screen — a mobile browser's toolbar comes and goes over vh. BLOCKED_SPELLINGS refuses both, so a vh value generates no CSS at all rather than a wrong height (unocss skill, references/blocklist.md).
• field-sizing: content is an attributify utility — put field-sizing-content directly on the <input> / <textarea>, never in a scoped class.

The look is the app's, on every page

An immersive page (apps/web/app/layouts/immersive.vue) is one with no app frame, and nothing more: it brings its own way back, not a look of its own. The look is the UI library's tokens, which every page reads whichever library draws it — a colour on any page is a token, and a page that sets its own palette on its root is a finding (the ui-library skill, references/document-chrome.md). The agent console stays in dusk through a theme scope rather than a palette of its own (apps/web/content/docs/architecture/ui-library.md). Every rule on this page holds inside an immersive page as on any other.

What stays in class="..."

Only a scoped CSS ref, a :class binding (the home of a valueless utility switched on a condition), a third-party or SVG class and group — everything else is an attribute (references/class-attribute.md).

Theme utilities are attributify too — references/theme-utilities.md

presetAttributify() is active, so every token colour, named opacity and palette colour is a standalone attribute; which names generate a utility at all, and the opacity spelling, are that page.

Links use text-info (the blue), never text-accent

A link is text-info with hover:underline; inline text that runs an action is a native <button type="button"> in the link colour (references/links.md).

State variants are utilities, not &:hover blocks

A state colour is a variant utility (hover:text-text), never an &:hover block, and a hover or selected background is the library's tint, never a picked surface (references/state-variants.md).

Utility vocabulary — references/utility-vocabulary.md

Where two spellings say the same thing, one is the repo's. Choosing between an abbreviation and its long form, a named step and a numeric one, a directional gap, or a slash value against a bare one is that page.

Images Are <NuxtImg> — references/images.md

A raw <img> is a vue/no-restricted-html-elements error. Read the page when adding or sizing one: width/height are html attributes rather than styles, sizing is CSS utilities, and object-contain/object-cover is stated wherever both dimensions are constrained.

The Parent Owns Spacing

Space between siblings is the container's gap-*, space inside a boundary its padding; a reset, a negative margin or one margin repeated across siblings means the space is in the wrong place (references/spacing.md).

Absolute Positioning Within a Container

Use relative on the parent and absolute top-0 right-0 (or other corners) to pin UI elements. Prefer this over manual margin/padding tricks when an element should float independent of sibling flow.

Style Block — references/style-blocks.md

<style scoped> always (vue/enforce-style-attribute), plain CSS until nesting earns lang="scss", library CSS imported in script setup. A Fragment-rooted child defeats scoped and :deep() alike, silently — that page.