Quick Start

Your first .po9-skin in five minutes. You’ll need the Creator Kit.

1. Scaffold

po9 new my-first-skin --template minimal
cd my-first-skin

This gives you a valid skin folder — a manifest, metadata, and theme tokens ready to edit.

2. Edit tokens

Open theme/tokens.json and change a few colors:

{
  "color.bg":      "#0a0a0c",
  "color.surface": "#16181d",
  "color.text":    "#e7e9ee",
  "color.accent":  "#6366f1"
}

3. Validate

po9 validate .

Fix anything the Validator flags — it checks security, compatibility, structure, and version.

4. Package

po9 package .        # → my-first-skin.po9-skin

5. Use

Open the PO9 app, import the .po9-skin file, and apply it.

That’s the full lifecycle: Create → Validate → Package → Import → Use. Next, browse the Templates or read the Specification.