Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add Dragoon0x/taste-skills --skill taste-vs-trendsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-vs-trends)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-vs-trends"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-vs-trends/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-vs-trends"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/taste-vs-trends.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.00354 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00142 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00071 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
taste-vs-trends 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Taste vs. Trends
Separate decisions that last from decisions that expire.
How to use
/taste-vs-trendsApply taste-vs-trend analysis to any design decision in this conversation.
Constraints
The Three Tests
- Time test: Will this decision still make sense in 2 years? If not, it's a trend.
- Reasoning test: Does the "why" bottom out at "everyone's doing it" (trend) or "it serves the user this way" (taste)?
- Transfer test: Does the principle work across domains, or only in this medium? Principles transfer. Trends don't.
Evaluation Rules
- MUST identify whether a design decision is trend-driven or principle-driven
- MUST challenge "modern" as a design goal. Ask: modern for whom? Modern compared to what?
- SHOULD suggest principle-based alternatives when trend-following is identified
- NEVER dismiss trends entirely. They carry information about user expectations. Use them as inputs, not instructions.
Questions to Ask
- Does this trend solve a real problem for this specific context?
- What would I choose if nobody would ever see my portfolio post?
- Am I choosing this because it's right or because it's safe?
Anti-Patterns
- Calling everything trendy to seem sophisticated (some trends reflect genuine improvements)
- Rejecting contemporary approaches just to be contrarian
- Equating timelessness with conservatism (bold choices can age well too)
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0da735b9d510
taste-vs-trends is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (7 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 354 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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