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Modern Web Guidance as a starting point for my own token skills: getting agents to write better CSS

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Modern Web Guidance is a set of skills from the Chrome and Edge teams that feeds expert-written platform guidance straight into your coding agent, with Baseline compatibility data baked in. It's good, but it also has no idea what your design system looks like. This post is about how it works, how I pair it with my own token skills, why fallbacks and polyfills matter, and the honest bits about data it keeps, the licence, and that whole you're just doing Google work for free argument.

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