What is Ostrava Steel?
Ostrava Steel is the website of a two-person forge in Ostrava that makes kitchen knives to order, and that does not exist. It was directed the Struq way, with the idea, the type, the colour and the motion settled before any markup, and then written by Claude Opus as one file. Nothing on it fades: everything arrives in slices and hard cuts. It runs below as it was built.
Updated
Struq skill 0.5.0
Now showing.
What was it built from?
A two-person forge in Ostrava that makes kitchen knives to order. One goal: a name on the order list.
What was the direction?
Settled in writing before a line of the site was built.
- Motion
- Hard cuts and short masks. Nothing fades; everything arrives in slices, the way steel is cut.
- Type
- Big Shoulders Display, heavy and condensed, over Newsreader for the reading text.
- Colour
- Soot and bone: near-black grounds, a warm off-white and one forge orange for the call to action.
- Build
- One HTML file, written by Claude Opus, with photographs from Struq’s image library.
Was it built with the Struq skill?
No. It was directed the Struq way and then written by Claude Opus by hand, as a single file, before the skill carried the method. Vuur, further down the showcase, is what an agent builds with the skill.
Is Ostrava Steel a real forge?
No. The forge, the smiths, the knives and the prices are layout copy for a demonstration brief. The photographs come from Struq’s image library and are free to use.
Now direct yours.
Paste it into Claude Code. It runs the install, then /struq is ready.
The Struq skill is free and open source. No account, no key, nothing to configure. Version 0.5.0, and you update by running it again.