Notes from building Prompt to Page.
Working notes on local models, the GOV.UK Design System, accessibility, and what it takes to keep a prototyping tool local-first.
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Prompt to Page 0.4.0: three design systems, one of them measured
Version 0.4.0 adds the NSW Design System, Bootstrap Italia and the Scottish Government Design System. Only one has a five-seed, per-model quality battery so far — and the picker says so.
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Adding a model is not the same as recommending it
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is in the picker from 0.3.2 — rated a 3, sitting next to a 4-rated coder. Why shipping a model and recommending it are different promises.
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To add a second design system, I had to find where the first one was hiding
Adding NHS, HMRC and a genuinely neutral design system forced me to notice that GOV.UK was never logic — it was reference data, quietly hardwired across the codebase.
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Matching an AI model to the machine in front of you
How the app picks a model that fits the user's hardware — and why I'm still unsure whether to hide incompatible premium models or show them, greyed out, with a reason.
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I wrote the counter-arguments before I wrote any code
Why I wrote the counter-case first — and the go/no-go gates that keep a seductive ML idea from becoming an expensive mistake.
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Smaller models need smaller prompts
Trimming worked examples from the prompt took a small model from 1/7 passing test cases to 4/7 — and the average score from 59 to 83.
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Teaching a local model the GOV.UK Design System — without fine-tuning it
How Prompt to Page uses a class list and just-in-time component retrieval to keep a local model's GOV.UK output accurate — without retraining the model.
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The small models got good — and that changes where government AI can run
Open-weight models now fit the government standard laptop. Here's why that changes what AI government teams can actually run on-device.
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I built a GOV.UK prototyping tool that never goes online
Why Prompt to Page runs entirely on your machine — no API keys, no cloud round-trips, and no draft policy leaving the building.
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