Paste one line in a terminal
npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skillPLUGIN / LEONXLNX
Taste Skill
Thirteen rival ways to make an AI-built interface look deliberate instead of templated, from quiet editorial to industrial brutalist.
Which of the entries write code and which only draw pictures, which of them the project puts first, what quietly changed underneath the default name, and which one puts the dials in your hands.
Thirteen alternatives, and which ones only draw.
The 13 entries are alternatives, not layers of one thing, and the work is picking the one that fits and leaving the rest alone. Only 3 of them stop at pictures — a website's sections, a phone app's screens, a brand board — and hand the building on to something else. Everything else writes code or files straight into a project.
A rewrite that arrives without asking.
The general-purpose skill was rewritten and the install name did not change with it. Re-running the install swaps the old one out in place for a version the repository itself still calls experimental.
The one it replaces is still here under a name of its own, and asking for it by that name is the only way to keep what you had. For everybody else the project's advice is to begin with the new default.
Three dials, and where they live.
That default opens on three numbers you set from one to ten, and they are the only part of the whole set that is tuneable rather than fixed:
- how far the layout may experiment, from centred and plain to asymmetric
- how much motion there is, from a hover effect to scroll-driven animation
- how much is packed onto a screen, from airy to dashboard-dense
No other entry exposes them, which is an argument for starting there rather than with a named look.
What gets installed: 13 skills
Skills
For a page with nothing there yet and no look agreed. The current default reads your brief and settles on a direction itself; one entry is the earlier edition of that same skill, frozen so a project built on it keeps behaving as it did; the third is a stricter edition written for Codex.
design-taste-frontendBuilds landing pages, portfolios and site redesigns that do not look AI-made: it reads the brief to pick a visual direction first, then checks the finished page against a list of the usual giveaways.design-taste-frontend-v1The older version of this author's frontend design skill, kept unchanged so a site already built with it keeps coming out the same; new projects are meant to use the current one.gpt-tasteBuilds a one-page website with scroll-driven animation, and deliberately shuffles the layout, fonts and components on every run so it never hands you the same page twice.
Three fixed house styles, for when the aesthetic has been agreed and the point is applying it the same way every time: one quiet and typographic, one hard and mechanical, one expensively understated. Their names overlap more than their rules do, so this is a choice to make by reading all three.
high-end-visual-designThe house style of an expensive design agency written down as rules: which fonts, spacing, shadows and animation to use, and which cheap-looking defaults are off limits.industrial-brutalist-uiA hard, mechanical look for a site or dashboard — rigid grids, huge blocky type and one warning red — built to feel like a 1960s print manual or an old military terminal screen.minimalist-uiA calm, paper-like look for a web app: warm off-white background, quiet pastel accents, thin borders, and no gradients or heavy shadows anywhere.
Two repairs rather than two styles. One works over a built site, names what makes it look unfinished and fixes that without replacing the tools it was made with. The other is aimed at the assistant instead of the design: it refuses to hand back code with a placeholder comment where the work should be.
full-output-enforcementA rule that stops an AI from handing back half-finished work: no 'rest of the code goes here' comments, and if a reply runs too long it breaks at a clean point and resumes exactly there.redesign-existing-projectsGoes through a website you already have, names what makes it look cheap or unfinished, and fixes those things without rebuilding it or swapping out the tools it was made with.
Four that work in images. Three draw and stop, leaving the construction to someone else; the fourth draws, studies its own drawings and then writes the front end to match them. What this group turns on is whether you want something to show people or something that runs.
brandkitTurns a description of a company into one image showing its logo, colors, fonts and how they look on real products — the board a design studio would present as the brand's identity.image-to-codeDraws the website as pictures first, one per section, studies its own drawings closely, and only then writes the front-end code to match them. It is written for use inside Codex.imagegen-frontend-mobileMockups of a phone app's screens — onboarding, home, checkout and the rest — drawn as images that all share one look and sit in a clean phone frame. It draws only; it never writes app code.imagegen-frontend-webDesign references for a website, drawn one image per section and all sharing a single color palette, so whoever builds the real page has something faithful to work from.
The one entry not aimed at a codebase at all. It writes the style rulebook another company's design tool reads, so the screens that tool turns out share one deliberate look instead of a fresh one each time. Install it only if that tool is in the picture; on its own it changes nothing.
02Two lines inside the assistant, and what arrives with them:
INSTALL
Two lines inside the assistant, and what arrives with them:
all 13, not the one you chose.
Add the marketplace, then install the plugin
Typed inside the agent's own prompt, not in a terminal. The marketplace is called taste-skill, which is the part after the @.
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/plugin marketplace add leonxlnx/taste-skill - 02
/plugin install taste-skill@taste-skill