Skeleton

Availability: @proto.ui/prototypes-brutalist@0.2.0 is published under npm latest as part of v0.2.0. Lifecycle: P-BRUTALIST-SKELETON remains draft; this page describes the released and tested 0.2 surface, not an active protocol guarantee.

Brutalist Skeleton is a direct styled-only visual placeholder: a static square Yandu Lavender surface with an ink border and hard shadow. It is passive, contentless, excluded from the accessibility tree, and owns no repeating shimmer or pulse.

Use it inside a parent async/loading region when an unresolved layout benefits from visual shape feedback. The parent owns loading and aria-busy state, announcements, placeholder-to-content replacement timing, and focus continuity. Skeleton does not create those semantics; any added motion must also respect reduced-motion preferences.