polycss AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for PolyCSS, a CSS-based engine that displays 3D polygon meshes using browser elements and transformations rather than WebGL or canvas. They explain its rendering model and the roles of its packages in the monorepo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying PolyCSS's core geometry, browser renderer, custom elements, CSS output, texture atlas handling, or React package.
Why use it?
They give agents the design rules and package boundaries needed to change the renderer without breaking its math, browser, or React components.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/layoutit/polycss/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/layoutit/polycss

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Grade A, and why

polycss AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 431 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 431 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PolyCSS — agent guide

This file is the single source of truth for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.). CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this file — always edit AGENTS.md, never CLAUDE.md. The constraints below describe the current design and the rules we work under; if a request conflicts with one of them, push back before doing it.

What this repo is

PolyCSS is a CSS-based polygon mesh rendering engine. It paints 3D meshes by emitting one DOM element per polygon, transforming it with matrix3d, and letting the browser composite the result. No WebGL, no canvas-per-frame. Rasterisation only happens once, into a texture atlas; everything after that is pure DOM + CSS.

Monorepo layout (pnpm workspaces):

Package npm name Role
packages/core @layoutit/polycss-core Pure math: Vec3, Polygon, scene, camera, mesh ops, atlas planning. Zero browser globals (lib: ES2020 only).
packages/polycss @layoutit/polycss Vanilla renderer + custom elements (<poly-scene>, etc.). Owns DOM emission, CSS injection, its own copy of atlas rasterisation. Depends on core only.
packages/react @layoutit/polycss-react React components + hooks. Owns its own copy of atlas rasterisation. Depends on core only — NOT on polycss.
packages/vue @layoutit/polycss-vue Vue 3 mirror of the React package. Owns its own copy of atlas rasterisation. Depends on core only.
packages/fonts @layoutit/polycss-fonts Fonts + text → extruded 3D Polygon[]. Hand-written TrueType (glyf) reader + extruder (flat/round/bevel profiles) + Google Fonts loader. Framework-agnostic (returns Polygon[], no React/Vue mirror needed). Depends on core + earcut.
packages/morph @layoutit/polycss-morph Framework-agnostic prepared-model contracts, deterministic Node preparation, browser loading, retained DOM mounting, sparse deformation, controls, springs, animation, joint skinning, and prepared playback. The browser entry uses public @layoutit/polycss APIs; Node-only preparation lives at @layoutit/polycss-morph/prepare. No React/Vue mirrors.
packages/domformat @layoutit/polycss-domformat Private strict-TypeScript domformat@0 writer, reader, validator, CLI, and browser mount with repository-side conformance. Its closed retained-DOM runtime includes sparse playback/surface/variants, typed atlas positions, responsive prepared presentation/layout/timeline profiles, host-selected prepared-bank handoff, fixed orbit input, one bounded digest-bound page lifecycle shared by paged transform/visibility playback and paged variants, and compositor-owned linear transform timing. It owns the producer-neutral wire contract; producer lowering and product input policy stay in producer/host packages. Runtime installs contain code-split ESM and declarations but exclude certification material. Not published.
packages/skills @layoutit/polycss-skills Zero-dependency npx installer for the PolyCSS agent skill. Owns skill/SKILL.md + skill/docs/*.md — the source of truth for what agents are told about PolyCSS. No renderer code, no runtime dependency on any other package.
website @layoutit/polycss-website Astro + Starlight docs site. Not published.
examples/{html,vanilla,react,vue,fontcss} private Per-framework Vite apps demonstrating the minimal usage for each renderer (fontcss demos @layoutit/polycss-fonts). Workspace members so they resolve to local workspace:^ packages. Not published.

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polycss AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository layoutit/polycss (747 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18,674 tokens to every session, about $0.0934 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.