About Aglaia
Aglaia is a design resource library built for AI, and a co-creation community. Its core library is free forever. It does not try to be another Figma. Instead it answers three beginner questions: What is this part called? How do I ask my AI to build it? What should it look like when it moves?
What's here
279 entries so far: 32 patterns and 37 components with standard bilingual names; 77 fill-in prompt flows (seven-part template, framework targets html-css / tailwind / react); 30 effects with live sandboxes; 36 learning guides including four hands-on instruments; 67 open-source resources, linked and license-labelled — never bundled or redistributed.
Principles
- Free core, forever. The core library is free — content under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Creator-market works are priced by their authors; the platform charges a service fee (rate in the white paper, to be decided).
- Honest labels. Prompts not yet verified against a live model say so. Previews are called previews, not simulators.
- Red lines. We never bundle Apple official design kits or SF Pro. HarmonyOS official resources are not built in without written permission — our HarmonyOS entries are self-drawn schematics plus spec notes.
- Machine-readable. The whole library is one registry: registry.json (shadcn-compatible) + registry-ext.json + llms.txt, so your AI can read it directly or over MCP.
Roadmap
The resource library is phase one. Next come richer preview sandboxes, then the workbench: assemble an early App interaction model in-platform and export it into your own source code. Community submissions via GitHub PR open after the official launch — foundation first.
Sources
The seed library draws on a 2026-10-28 open-resource survey (350+ candidates, license-checked). Effect implementations and all prompt flows are original to this site: batch 1's prompt flows were rebuilt in 2026-11 from open, license-clean effect references (Magic UI, Uiverse, Animista, Paper Shaders, tsParticles, CSS Loaders — see Resources) after the decision not to export the original teaching materials they were once planned from.
The mascot
Her name is Aglaia — the same as the site. A cream-white cat with teal eyes and dark eyeliner markings, dark-navy ear tips and tail, and a navy cape fastened by a gold A-shaped clasp set with a teal four-point star.
She is the site's guide: you will meet her on the home page and at the workbench, where she points you to the right part and the right prompt. Her portrait is also the site's logo — and the app icon.