taste-skill
Leonxlnx · Leonxlnx/taste-skill
Gives coding agents 'taste' by providing art direction, reference images, and automated browser-based visual checks.
Agent skills that give coding agents taste: art direction, reference images and a browser check instead of generic AI pages
See it in action
From the author's READMETechno event landing page with grid layout and archival photography
From the author's README Leonxlnx ·Source
What you can do with it
- Instruct Claude Code to build a landing page with a specific aesthetic instead of a generic layout.
- Automatically verify UI changes in a real browser to ensure the agent didn't break the layout.
- Inject professional reference images into the agent's workflow for better visual context.
Safety check
No risky patterns found in the files we scanned.
Automated scan of the repo files. Always review code you run.
From the README
The easiest way to get Taste Skill results: download TasteCode. Its design agent briefs, builds and visually reviews your UI. Source on GitHub.
Sponsors
<strong>Sidrune AI</strong>: one API for GPT, Claude, and other leading AI models.Sign up through this link and get $3 in API credit.
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<strong>IMG.LY</strong> · CreativeEditor SDK
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Become a sponsor
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:
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:
- Reads the brief and lists what only this client has.
- A script deals three of 20 researched directions and the agent picks one.
- Finds the idea: one sentence tying the client's own material to that direction.
- Builds with real pictures and footage from open collections, credited.
- Checks the page in a real browser at three widths and fails it on slop.
- 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. |