PRIZM

Current version: PRIZM 4.0.

What it does

DSTA's AI-ingestible design system. Provides components, tokens, and templates that LLMs can read and generate from directly. Two product zones — C3 (command-and-control, tactical) and Enterprise (back-office, professional) — share the same component primitives but apply different design tokens.

The point of building PRIZM as AI-ingestible is that any team using Claude Code (or a similar tool) can generate UI that is automatically PRIZM-conformant — no separate handoff, no manual styling, no design-system drift.

When to use it

• Mandatory for any digital UI work — internal tool, customer portal, marketing surface
• Earliest possible in Design — set up the design system before prototyping, not after
• For both prototyping (PRIZM components are copy-paste, fast to iterate) and production

How to access

Source: github.com/prizm-design/prizm. Distribution is copy-paste — components live in the PRIZM repo and are copied into consuming projects. No npm package.

Read PRIZM.md and llms.txt at the root of that repo before using PRIZM with an AI tool — they brief the LLM on conventions, semantic tokens, and what NOT to do.

Output expectations

• Generated code uses semantic Tailwind tokens (bg-bg, text-fg, border-border, bg-accent), never raw colour utilities
• Components are composed from PRIZM primitives where possible
• No external URL references (PRIZM is air-gap safe)