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name: taste-skill description: | High-agency frontend skill that gives AI good taste with tunable design variance, motion intensity, and visual density. Prevents generic AI UI slop through metric-based rules, strict component architecture, and premium design engineering directives. triggers:

• "design taste"
• "visual taste"
• "good taste"
• "anti slop"
• "visual density"
• "premium UI"
• "no generic UI"
• "stop slop" das: category: design-systems upstream: "https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill" upstream_path: "skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md" version: latest install: true

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taste-skill

Catalogue stub — full skill: @Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Decision tree

1. Is the full skill already installed? Check whether the skill at this location still has a das: block:

   • Global: grep -q "^das:" ~/.agents/skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • Project: grep -q "^das:" .agents/skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • No das: block → full skill installed, invoke it and proceed
   • das: block present → go to step 2

2. Detect scope, then install:

   To detect scope:

   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/taste-skill ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
   

   Global (installed with -g):

   npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill taste-skill -g -y
   

   Project (installed without -g):

   npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill taste-skill -y
   

   Claude Code: send either command as a chat message starting with ! to run it without leaving the conversation.

Invoke after install

• Skill name: taste-skill or design-taste-frontend
• Trigger phrases: "design taste", "good taste", "anti slop", "visual density", "premium UI"

What it does

Applies senior UI/UX engineer taste via three tunable dials:

Dial	Default	Range	Effect
DESIGN_VARIANCE	8	1–10	1 = perfect symmetry → 10 = artsy asymmetry
MOTION_INTENSITY	6	1–10	1 = static → 10 = cinematic spring physics
VISUAL_DENSITY	4	1–10	1 = art gallery / airy → 10 = cockpit / data-packed

Override dials in chat: "set motion to 3", "max density". Enforces strict bans against AI design tells: Inter font, centered heroes, 3-column equal card rows, neon glows, pure black (#000), AI-purple gradients, emoji in UI.

When NOT to use

• Backend code, APIs, data pipelines, CLI tools, or any non-UI task
• When the user explicitly wants generic or template-style UI