Taste Skill

An AI writes a page out of the average of everything it has seen, so the page looks like the average of everything it has seen: safe spacing, a gradient, three cards in a row, nothing that suggests a person made a decision. Taste Skill is a set of skills, written instructions an assistant reads before it starts work, aimed squarely at that problem. It ships thirteen of them: a default, several named looks such as minimalist and brutalist, a redesign pass for pages that already exist, and one that draws the design as a picture before writing any code. What it changes is what your assistant reaches for first. It is not a design system for your own product, and it has no opinion about whether the thing you are building is worth building.

Reach for it when you are building an interface with an assistant and the results keep coming out generic, or when you want a particular look often enough that naming it beats describing it every time. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and several other coding assistants. The default skill is labelled experimental by its authors. If you would rather have the steadier older version, put --skill design-taste-frontend-v1 at the end of the install line, which fetches that one instead of the whole pack.

1. Open the Terminal app, the window where you type commands, and move to your project folder. Paste the line below. It uses npx, the helper that arrives with Node.js, to copy the skills into the place your assistant looks for them.
2. Ask for one screen and name a look, for example: rebuild this pricing page using the minimalist skill. Put it beside what the same assistant made before, because that comparison is your only evidence the skill actually took.
3. Keep it on a duplicate of your project until you trust it. These skills rewrite layout and styling with a firm hand, which is the point of them, but a firm hand on your only copy makes for a bad afternoon.