Wireframer — AI Agent Skill

An AI agent skill that turns a plain text prompt into a functional, low-fidelity, hand-drawn web prototype. Think Balsamiq — but generated instantly from a description, right inside your project.

Prototypes are clickable SPAs with a sketchbook aesthetic: dotted backgrounds, wobbly hand-drawn borders, sketchy UI components, and doodle icons. No graphic design required — the focus is on layout, content, and flow.

Works with any AI coding assistant: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and others.

Live previews

Click any image to see interactive prototype.

Installation

Any agent — recommended

npx skills add agilek/wireframer-skill

Automatically installs into the right directory for your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini, and 40+ others).

Update

npx skills update

Claude Code (plugin)

/plugin marketplace add agilek/wireframer-skill
/plugin install wireframes-designer@wireframer-skill

Then invoke it in any project:

/wireframer Build a SaaS dashboard with a sidebar, KPI overview row, and recent activity table.

Manual install

Copy the contents of SKILL.md into your AI instruction file:

What gets generated

• Wired Elements — all interactive UI (inputs, cards, checkboxes, tabs, toggles, etc.) uses wired-elements web components for a hand-drawn SVG look
• Doodle Icons — icons use react-doodle-icons, a library of 439 hand-drawn icons across 17 categories
• Sketchy aesthetics — dotted graph-paper background, irregular borders, Patrick Hand / Caveat / Comic Neue fonts from Google Fonts
• Realistic copy — context-aware body text generated from your description; no lorem ipsum

Supported environments

For React projects, navigation is handled with useState — no routing library needed.

When to use this skill

Invoke the wireframer when you want to:

• Validate a concept before writing any production code
• Communicate layout and flow to stakeholders or teammates without visual polish
• Run a design sprint — generate multiple screen variants quickly and compare
• Prototype a user journey — multi-screen flows with working navigation
• Sketch an MVP — turn a product idea into something clickable in minutes

Trigger phrases: wireframe, mockup, lo-fi prototype, rough layout, sketch the screens, Balsamiq-style, hand-drawn UI, clickable prototype, visualize the flow, show what the app would look like.

Example prompts

Cloning an existing page

Convert the page at https://google.com into a hand-drawn wireframe. Preserve the layout, sections, and content hierarchy but render everything in the sketchy wireframe aesthetic.

I've pasted the HTML of our current homepage below. Re-create it as a low-fidelity wireframe prototype, keeping the same structure and copy but applying the hand-drawn aesthetic.

SaaS & dashboards

Wireframe a SaaS analytics dashboard with a collapsible sidebar, KPI cards row, a line chart, and a recent activity table.

Wireframe an admin panel for a multi-tenant SaaS: user management table, role assignment modal, and billing overview.

E-commerce

Wireframe a product detail page with image gallery, size selector, reviews section, and sticky add-to-cart bar.

Wireframe a checkout flow: cart summary, shipping form, payment step, and order confirmation screen.

Mobile flows

Wireframe a three-screen mobile onboarding for a fitness tracking app: welcome, goal setup, and notification permissions.

Wireframe a mobile food delivery app: restaurant listing, menu screen, and cart with order summary.

Marketing & landing pages

Wireframe a SaaS landing page: hero with CTA, features grid, pricing table with three tiers, and footer.

Wireframe a personal portfolio: hero, about section, project cards grid, skills list, and contact form.

Productivity & tools

Wireframe a project management tool with a kanban board, task detail slide-over panel, and team members sidebar.

Wireframe an email client: folder list sidebar, message list, and reading pane with reply box.

Social & community

Wireframe a social feed with stories row, post cards, comment thread, and a floating compose button.

Wireframe a community forum: category list, thread listing, and a post detail page with nested replies.

Forms & onboarding

Wireframe a multi-step signup wizard for a B2B tool: account details, team invite, workspace setup, and done screen.

Wireframe a settings page with tabs for Profile, Notifications, Security, and Billing.

Aesthetic rules enforced

• Strict grayscale — black, white, and grays only
• Primary buttons: dark fill (#333) with white text; secondary: white fill with dark sketchy border
• All containers have a solid white background so the graph-paper pattern never bleeds through content
• No emoji — icons use react-doodle-icons or inline SVG only
• Sketchy border trick: border-radius: 255px 15px 225px 15px / 15px 225px 15px 255px
• Graph-paper background: radial-gradient(#d7d7d7 1px, transparent 1px)
• On first run, context rules are written to the project's AI instruction file (agents.md, .cursorrules, etc.) so the aesthetic persists across sessions

License

MIT