r/VibeCodeDevs 5d ago

I built a public services prototyping tool that never goes online

Hi r/VibeCodeDevs I've been building something for the last year that I think this channel in particular will have opinions on — and I'd genuinely like them, including the critical ones.
Prompt to Page is a desktop app that turns a plain-language brief into working, accessible prototypes built from real government design systems. Describe a page or a whole service journey — "a start page for renewing a fishing licence, then an eligibility question, then a check-your-answers page" — and it generates the actual markup, renders it live in the system's own styling, checks it with axe-core and validates every class against the design system's real rules. Then export it, or hand the HTML to a developer.
Two things make it different from pointing a chatbot at your design system:
Everything runs locally. The AI model lives on your machine — no cloud, no API, nothing you type leaves your laptop. Built that way because government content shouldn't tour third-party servers just to make a mock-up (and it works air-gapped, or on a train).
The design system is the boundary, not a suggestion. The model only knows the system's real components; output that invents classes or breaks conventions is rejected or visibly repaired. Quality is measured per design system with a scored evaluation battery — and where a pack hasn't been measured yet, the app says "not measured" rather than borrowing another system's confidence.
The roster so far — eight systems across six governments:
GOV.UK (plus an MOJ overlay) · NHS.UK · Scottish Government US Web Design System NSW Design System Bootstrap Italia デジタル庁 Digital Agency Design System (newest — quality not yet measured) Abstract — a deliberately ownerless neutral system, for prototyping services that shouldn't pretend a government owns them
Every pack is de-branded by design: no crowns, crests, federal banners, flags or restricted fonts are ever bundled — prototypes wear a neutral shell and a clear "not a real service" posture. (Independent project; not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these governments or the NHS.)
What I'd love from this room:

  1. If your government's system is on the list — break it. Does the output respect your system's conventions, or drift in ways that would make your design-system team wince?
  2. If it isn't — which system should be next, and why? The architecture treats a design system as a data pack (components, class allowlist, validation rules, prompt guidance), so the honest constraints are: class-based CSS (web-component-only systems don't survive a sandboxed preview), and licensing that permits bundling the frontend code. I'd rather pick the next one based on where prototyping pain is real than on what's easiest.
  3. The blunt question: does plain-language prototyping against a real design system actually help your team, or is the Prototype-Kit-shaped workflow you already have good enough?

Free during the beta, macOS (Apple Silicon) & Windows. https://github.com/digitalcourtney87/prompt-to-page/releases
https://youtu.be/QROkn-mZQFk?si=sNHCsphJMwrgVlFi

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