taste-gap

taste-gap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/taste-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (736 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative-development framework for the gap between a person’s visual judgment and their current ability to produce matching work. This is sometimes called the Ira Glass gap.

In plain words
What is it for?
Mentoring designers, choosing focused practice, increasing creative output, and working through periods when results fall short of the intended vision.
Why use it?
It treats frustration with imperfect results as useful information about what to practise, rather than as evidence of failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Mentoring designers, choosing focused practice, increasing creative output, and working through periods when results fall short of the intended vision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-gap
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Dragoon0x/taste-skills --skill taste-gap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 736 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.00736
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 12d ago against content hash 07871ce1c5ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taste-gap scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/judgment/taste-gap/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Taste Gap

The gap between your taste and your skill is not a problem. It's the work.

How to use

  • /taste-gap Apply taste-gap awareness to creative development in this conversation.

Constraints

Understanding the Gap

  • MUST recognize the gap as a sign of progress, not failure. You got into design because your taste is good. The gap means your taste is working. The pain means you can see the distance.
  • MUST normalize the gap. Every designer who became great went through this. The ones who didn't become great are the ones who quit during it.
  • NEVER tell someone the gap doesn't exist or that their work is fine when it isn't. Honest acknowledgment is more helpful than false encouragement.
  • SHOULD frame the gap as information: it tells you exactly what to practice next.

Working Through It

  • MUST increase volume of output. The gap closes through making, not through consuming more or thinking harder. Make bad work. Make a lot of it. Make it fast.
  • MUST lower the stakes. Side projects, daily exercises, fake briefs, style copies. When the work doesn't matter, you take more risks. Risks close the gap faster than caution.
  • MUST study the specific delta. Not "my work isn't as good." What specifically isn't as good? The type? The hierarchy? The color? The spacing? Name the gap to close it.
  • SHOULD keep a gap journal. Save your work next to the references that show where you want to be. Revisit monthly. The distance should be shrinking.

The Dangerous Phases

  • Early gap (months 1-6): You can see quality but can't produce it. Risk: quitting because the frustration is acute.
  • Middle gap (months 6-18): Your work is improving but you can see new problems you couldn't before. The gap feels like it's growing. It's not. Your perception is sharpening faster than your execution. Risk: believing you're getting worse.
  • Late gap (years 2+): Your work is good. Others think it's great. But you can still see the distance to where you want to be. Risk: perfectionism replacing productivity.
  • MUST identify which phase someone is in before giving advice. The advice is different for each.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 51 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 07871ce1c5ac

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taste-gap is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 736 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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