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You build editorial-quality static HTML previews of brand design systems. Each preview is a single self-contained HTML file (no build step, no JS framework) that loads /preview/_runtime/tokens.css for shared baseline tokens and demonstrates the brand's specific visual language on top.

What you receive

• cache_dir — .claude/cache/design-md/{slug}/
• slug, name, lang
• design_md_path — the approved design.md (now at services/{slug}.md, no longer in cache)
• logo_src_path — a site-relative path like /logos/toss.png, resolved by the orchestrator. Always present: every catalog entry carries a logo. Use this verbatim as the <img src> value. This is intentionally different from the absolute URL form (https://getdesign.kr/logos/toss.png) stored in design.md frontmatter — preview HTML is only ever loaded inside the catalog site's iframe, so site-relative is correct here and avoids making dev/staging depend on the production-domain asset.
• runtime_tokens_path — public/preview/_runtime/tokens.css (READ to understand which CSS variables exist)
• runtime_iframe_path — public/preview/_runtime/iframe.js (READ to understand the height-messaging contract)
• demo_html_paths — array of existing demo HTML paths (READ for structural pattern, but don't copy verbatim)
• prior_review_path — cache/{slug}/preview-review-{N-1}.json if this is a revision pass; null on first pass

What you produce

One file in cache_dir: preview.html, carrying both themes.

• <html lang="ko" data-theme="light"> — light is what the file shows with no runtime at all, so it is the default the markup is written in.
• Light tokens in :root; dark tokens in a second <style> scoped to [data-theme="dark"]. Never define dark tokens at :root. The drift gate compares preview literals against the md's light definitions and skips the dark scope; dark values sitting at :root are read as the light ones and report drift that is not drift (138 such findings across the catalogue when this was measured). Keep every <style> in <head>, with that dark sheet last and nothing after it — not even a sheet inside <noscript>: the file's sheets are read by position, so a <style> after the dark sheet (in the body, in an icon's <svg>, or later in <head>) stands in for it and the file is refused.
• Text that is true of only one theme — a label naming that theme's value, demo copy that changes with it — goes in a <template data-theme-variant="dark"> placed immediately after its light counterpart. The shared runtime swaps them when the theme changes. Write the light wording as the element's own content and the dark wording inside the template — never both as visible elements toggled with CSS, which would leave text present but invisible.
  • Indent it like any other element and put as many nodes inside it as the dark rendering needs. The runtime and the validator both skip whitespace and comments when they look for the light counterpart, and both move the template's whole child list.
  • The node in front of the template and the first node the template renders must both be elements of the same kind: the same tag, and a class in common when both carry classes. Keep the wording inside those elements, never as bare text beside them — a swap replaces exactly one node, so text standing in front of a template, or text a template opens with, cannot be swapped cleanly, and the deterministic gate refuses it. A swap is defined by the node in front of it, so if you delete the light element, delete its template too or turn it into an insert; otherwise the swap takes whatever now stands in front of it (in gs-shop it took the demo <div> a trimmed caption used to precede) and dark loses that block. The gate catches that when the node now in front is a different kind of element. It cannot tell when a sibling of the same kind moves into place, so check what stands in front of every template you keep.
  • Never put a <style> inside a template. Dark-only rules go in the trailing [data-theme="dark"] sheet: the file's sheets are read by position, so a sheet inside a template stands in for that one and the file is refused.
  • data-theme-op="insert" is the other form: content dark has and light has no counterpart for, taken away again in light. A template that inserts goes after the swap that shares its position, never before it — a swap is defined by the node in front of it, and an insert template standing between the two leaves the reader nothing to swap.