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Taste Skill

Anti slop frontend design direction for web applications.

What It Does

Comprehensive design guidance instructing agents to infer appropriate visual direction, select legitimate typography scales, and refuse generic template defaults.

Origin and Adaptation Notes

Coding agents default to predictable styles (purple gradients, excessive drop shadows, cards inside cards). Naming and banning poor defaults restores design intentionality.

Attribution: Modular design system inspired by contemporary anti slop frontend engineering and typography practices.

When to Activate

  • •Designing landing pages, portfolio interfaces, and web applications
  • •Redesigning existing user interfaces to remove generic styling
  • •Selecting typography scales, OKLCH color palettes, and balanced layouts

When to Avoid

  • •Pure backend API and CLI implementations

Skill Specification and Runtime Setup

Full Instruction Specification
# Taste Skill Specification

## Overview
Comprehensive design guidance instructing agents to infer appropriate visual direction, select legitimate typography scales, and refuse generic template defaults.

## Rationale
Coding agents default to predictable styles (purple gradients, excessive drop shadows, cards inside cards). Naming and banning poor defaults restores design intentionality.

## Core Principles
* Always verify environment constraints and dependencies before executing.
* Enforce negative constraints and reject speculative abstractions.
* Validate output against stated acceptance rubrics.

## Execution Workflow
1. Discovery: Map requirements and inspect active context.
2. Decomposition: Break down the task into discrete, verifiable phases.
3. Execution: Implement surgical changes preserving existing code architecture.
4. Verification: Test all criteria before declaring completion.

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