taste-skill README

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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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这是什么?Taste Skill 是一套可移植的 AI 编程助手技能:它能提升 AI 生成界面的水平,让布局、排版、动效和间距更讲究,而不是那种一眼就是模板拼出来的 UI。
那它是我应用依赖的库,还是别的东西?既不是运行时库,也不是应用。每个技能就是一个 SKILL.md 指令文件,你的编程助手会自动加载它;不会有任何东西被编译进你的项目。
怎么把技能添加到我的助手?运行 npx skills add 命令行工具,并传入技能的安装名,也就是 SKILL frontmatter 里的 name: 字段。Claude Code 用户也可以把整个仓库作为插件来安装。
它支持哪些编程助手和 UI 框架?任何主流编程助手都行——明确提到的有 Codex、Cursor 和 Claude Code;UI 框架也不限:这些规则针对的是设计意图,所以 React、Vue、Svelte 都能用。
默认技能稳定吗?默认的 design-taste-frontend 技能是 v2 版本,标记为实验性——这是一次大规模重写,仍在向稳定版迭代。如果 v2 影响了你的工作流程,可以改用保留下来的 v1 版本。
我能在商业项目中使用它吗?可以——它采用 MIT 许可证,可以自由使用、修改和发布,用于商业项目也没问题。
我能控制设计风格有多大胆或多实验吗?可以。taste-skill 文件顶部有三个 1-10 的调节旋钮:DESIGNVARIANCE 控制布局实验程度,MOTIONINTENSITY 控制动效深度,VISUALDENSITY 控制每屏的信息量。
我应该从哪个技能入手?先从 taste-skill 开始,它是最稳妥的通用默认选项。如果想要更严格、面向 GPT/Codex 的规则,选 gpt-taste;想改进现有代码库,选 redesign-skill;想要先生成参考图再实现的流程,选 image-to-code。
图像生成技能输出的是什么?只输出设计图,不会生成代码:包括网站设计稿、手机界面和流程图,以及品牌物料板。先配合 ChatGPT Images 或类似工具生成,再把这些设计图交给 Codex、Cursor 或 Claude Code 去实现。
有官方的 Taste Skill 加密代币吗?没有。README 明确声明不存在任何官方代币或币:任何使用作者姓名、形象或项目名称的代币都与本项目无关,也未经授权。
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