Comparison
Windcraft vs zeroheight
zeroheight is where you document a design system for people: a beautiful reference site tying tokens, components, and guidelines together. Windcraft is where the system gets enforced on code. Documenting a system and enforcing it are different jobs, and AI has widened the gap between them.
zeroheight publishes your design system as human documentation — searchable, well-designed, the canonical reference your team reads. Windcraft makes the system executable: tokens and contracts served to AI tools over MCP, and a static analyzer that fails a build on drift. Docs rely on people reading and remembering; AI tools do neither. Windcraft turns the guidelines a doc site describes into checks that actually hold.
How they compare
| Aspect | zeroheight | Windcraft |
|---|---|---|
| Output | A human-readable documentation site | Machine-readable values plus enforcement |
| Adoption mechanism | People read and remember | AI reads over MCP; CI enforces |
| AI generation | Not addressed | Tokens and contracts fed to the model |
| Drift | Docs cannot catch it | Analyzer catches it before commit |
When zeroheight is the right call
zeroheight wins when you need a polished reference for humans — onboarding new hires, aligning design and engineering, giving stakeholders a single source to read. That human layer matters and Windcraft does not provide it. The pairing is clean: document the system in zeroheight for people, enforce it with Windcraft for code and AI. One teaches the system; the other makes it stick.
FAQ
- Does Windcraft document my design system for people?
- Not as a polished site. Windcraft’s contracts and tokens are machine-readable, aimed at AI tools and the analyzer. For a human-facing reference, a tool like zeroheight is the better fit — and the two complement each other.
- Why isn’t documentation enough?
- Because documentation is advisory and AI tools do not read it. A guideline that says "use our spacing scale" cannot stop a model from emitting p-[18px]. Windcraft serves the values machine-readably and checks the code, so the rule is enforced rather than merely written down.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. zeroheight for human documentation, Windcraft for machine enforcement. Together you get a system people understand and code actually follows.