The field manual
Guides
Ten calm, server-rendered guides for expressive interfaces—from installation and theming through accessibility, performance, and local AI handoff.
- 014 sections
Installation
Choose the right Scout UI package and integrate its public alpha contract without widening client boundaries.
- 024 sections
Theming with CSS variables
Remap Scout UI's paper, night, accents, typography, focus, and component hooks with plain CSS.
- 035 sections
Sticker asset authoring
Author safe, optically balanced sticker definitions with auditable provenance and accurate public imports.
- 044 sections
SSR and Next.js
Use Scout UI's mixed server/client leaf architecture safely in the Next.js App Router.
- 054 sections
Motion and reduced motion
Apply Scout UI motion as bounded feedback with coarse-pointer and reduced-motion fallbacks.
- 065 sections
Accessibility
Understand Scout UI's native semantics, focus, drag alternatives, artwork policy, and current verification boundary.
- 075 sections
Performance and cleanup
Understand bounded pools, frame-coalesced pointer work, cleanup, visibility handling, and bundle boundaries.
- 084 sections
Code and AI handoff
Use deterministic Copy Code and configuration-aware Copy AI Prompt without sending project data anywhere.
- 094 sections
Contributing
Choose a Scout UI contribution path and follow the repository's canonical code, accessibility, docs, and artwork policies.
- 104 sections
Migration during alpha
Understand Scout UI's v0.1 alpha API freeze and how future breaking changes will be communicated.