taste-skill README

The project's README from github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill. As one markdown file: README.md.

Taste Skill - Anti-slop Agent Skills for premium frontends

Visit tasteskill.dev   New: TasteCode   MIT License   Agent Skills compatible   Codex, Cursor, Claude   Changelog

TasteCode is here. Taste Skill as a desktop app, with a design agent built in. Free and open source. Download at tastecode.dev

The easiest way to get Taste Skill results: download TasteCode. Its design agent briefs, builds and visually reviews your UI. Source on GitHub.

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Taste Skill is a set of Agent Skills that make coding agents design websites instead of assembling the average landing page. The default skill gives the agent an art direction, real pictures and a way to check its own work in a real browser.

Pages it has built, each from one brief:

Coffee shop page with a drawn storefront as its hero Techno night page with its dates set into an archive photograph
Coffee shop page section showing the roast in four photographs Coffee shop page questions as stacked index cards

The photographs are real, found in open archives and credited by the skill (credits). Watch the launch film.

Install · How it works · Skills · FAQ · Sponsors · License

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill

That installs every skill in this repo with the npx skills CLI. To install one, pass its install name:

npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill "design-taste-frontend"

The default skill runs its scripts with Node 22+ and an installed Chrome, Edge or Chromium. It installs nothing and needs no API keys. Finding pictures needs network access.

Claude Code plugin

Run these inside Claude Code. Every skill is namespaced under taste-skill:, so they do not collide with your other skills.

/plugin marketplace add Leonxlnx/taste-skill
/plugin install taste-skill@taste-skill

/plugin update upgrades it later.

Codex plugin 
codex plugin marketplace add Leonxlnx/taste-skill
codex plugin add taste-skill@taste-skill

Start a new Codex session afterwards so the skills are loaded.

From a clone, linked instead of copied

./install.sh symlinks the skills into Claude Code (--codex for Codex, --all-agents for both), so a git pull updates them in place. ./install.sh --list shows every install name.

Already have the skill? Run the install command again. The install name did not change, and the older versions stay available under their own names (see Skills).

How v2 works

The default skill is built from a study of 247 curated sites. A build runs in six steps:

  1. Reads the brief and lists what only this client has.
  2. A script deals three of 20 researched directions and the agent picks one.
  3. Finds the idea: one sentence tying the client's own material to that direction.
  4. Builds with real pictures and footage from open collections, credited.
  5. Checks the page in a real browser at three widths and fails it on slop.
  6. Looks at its own screenshots and fixes the top three problems, up to three rounds.

A build takes roughly 30 to 45 minutes and a few hundred thousand tokens. Details are in the changelog and the study.

Skills

Each skill does one job. You do not need all of them. The install name is the value you pass to --skill.

Skill Install name What it does
taste-skill design-taste-frontend v2. Art direction for landing pages, marketing sites, portfolios and product pages, in any stack. Works as described above.
Skills for a specific job (8)
Skill Install name What it does
redesign-skill redesign-existing-projects Existing projects: audit the UI first, then fix layout, spacing, hierarchy and styling.
image-to-code-skill image-to-code Generate site references, analyse them, then build the frontend to match.
gpt-tasteskill gpt-taste A stricter variant for GPT and Codex: more layout variance, stronger motion direction.
soft-skill high-end-visual-design Calm, polished UI: soft contrast, whitespace, spring motion.
minimalist-skill minimalist-ui Editorial product UI with a restrained palette and crisp structure.
brutalist-skill industrial-brutalist-ui Hard mechanical language: Swiss type, sharp contrast, experimental layout.
stitch-skill stitch-design-taste Rules for Google Stitch, with an optional DESIGN.md export.
output-skill full-output-enforcement For when the model ships half-finished work: full output, no placeholder comments.
Image generation skills (3)

These produce design images only, no code. Use them with ChatGPT Images, Codex image mode or any agent that generates images, then hand the frames to your coding agent.

Skill Install name What it does
imagegen-frontend-web imagegen-frontend-web Website comps: hero, landing page, multi-section.
imagegen-frontend-mobile imagegen-frontend-mobile Mobile screens and flows for iOS, Android and cross-platform.
brandkit brandkit Brand-kit boards: logo directions, palettes, type, applications.

Which one should I use?

Older versions of taste-skill

Kept for projects that depend on their exact behaviour.

Skill Install name What it is
taste-skill-v2-experimental design-taste-frontend-v2-experimental The single-file, dial-driven rewrite that was the default before v2.
taste-skill-v1 design-taste-frontend-v1 The original. 
npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill "design-taste-frontend-v2-experimental"
npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill "design-taste-frontend-v1"

Both have three 1 to 10 dials at the top of the file: DESIGN_VARIANCE (centred and clean to asymmetric), MOTION_INTENSITY (hover only to scroll-driven) and VISUAL_DENSITY (spacious to dense). v2 has no dials. Its direction comes from the draw and its limits from the inspector.

Common Questions

What does the default skill need?
Node 22 or newer and Chrome, Edge or Chromium. It installs nothing and uses no API keys. It needs the internet only to find pictures.

Where do the pictures come from, and can I use them?
From open collections such as Wikimedia Commons, Openverse and the Met. Only public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA files are offered, and the skill puts the credits on the page. Replace them with your own when you have them.

Does it work with React, Vue, Svelte, plain HTML?
Yes. The rules are about design, not a framework.

Is it for dashboards and app screens?
No. The default skill is for public-facing pages. Use minimalist-skill or soft-skill for product UI.

Support the project

If Taste Skill helps you, consider sponsoring:

Sponsor on GitHub

Open Source Supporters

Kimi Kimi Open Source Friends
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Community sponsors

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Feedback: open an issue or pull request, DM @lexnlin or @blueemi99, or email [email protected].

Taste Skill has no official token, coin, or crypto project. Any token using my name, image, or project is unaffiliated and not endorsed by me.

License

MIT License · Copyright (c) 2026 Leonxlnx

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Taste-skill
What is this?Taste Skill is a set of portable skills for AI coding agents: they upgrade AI-built interfaces with stronger layout, typography, motion, and spacing instead of boilerplate-looking UIs.
So is it a library my app depends on, or something else?Neither a runtime library nor an app. Each skill is a SKILL.md instruction file your coding agent loads automatically; nothing gets compiled into your project.
How do I add a skill to my agent?Run the npx skills add CLI and pass the skill's install name — the name: field in the SKILL frontmatter. Claude Code users can install the whole repo as a plugin instead.
Which coding agents and UI frameworks does it work with?Any major coding agent — Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code are named — and any UI framework: the rules target design intent, so React, Vue, and Svelte all work.
Is the default skill stable?The default design-taste-frontend skill is v2, marked experimental — a substantial rewrite still being iterated toward stable. If v2 breaks your workflow, pin the preserved v1 instead.
Can I use it in commercial projects?Yes — it is MIT licensed, so it is free to use, modify, and ship even in commercial work.
Can I control how bold or experimental the designs come out?Yes. The taste-skill file has three 1-10 dials at the top: DESIGNVARIANCE for layout experimentation, MOTIONINTENSITY for animation depth, and VISUALDENSITY for information per viewport.
Which skill should I start with?Start with taste-skill for the safest general default. Pick gpt-taste for stricter GPT/Codex-oriented rules, redesign-skill to improve an existing codebase, or image-to-code for a generate-references-then-implement pipeline.
What do the image-generation skills produce?Design images only, never code: website comps, mobile screens and flows, and brand-kit boards. Pair them with ChatGPT Images or similar, then hand the frames to Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code for implementation.
Is there an official Taste Skill crypto token?No. The README disclaims any official token or coin: any token using the author's name, image, or project is unaffiliated and not endorsed.
What are similar projects?oil-ui, evondevKit, garden-skills, scroll-craft, awesome-design-md, hallmark, awesome-claude-design, ui-ux-pro-max-skill
Which topics is it in?lowcode, nocode, vibecoding, landing-page, web-design, design-systems, coding, ui-design, typography, design-system, claude-skills, image-generation
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