teaching-taste

teaching-taste is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/taste-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A mentoring approach for helping designers develop their own judgment instead of copying a teacher's personal style. It uses guided questions, focused exercises, and precise words for describing design decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to mentor designers, run design lessons, or create shared quality standards while allowing different visual styles.
Why use it?
It makes feedback teachable and actionable. Designers learn to recognize principles and explain choices rather than simply following rules or being told that something feels wrong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to mentor designers, run design lessons, or create shared quality standards while allowing different visual styles.

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

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 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 $0.00031 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 11d ago against content hash 347c6319ed71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

teaching-taste 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 11d 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/team-practice/teaching-taste/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Teaching Taste

Teach judgment, not your personal style.

How to use

  • /teaching-taste Apply teaching constraints to mentoring and education in this conversation.

Constraints

Teaching Methods That Work

  • Guided deconstruction: Look at a design together. Ask questions until they see the principle.
  • Constrained practice: Exercises where the constraint forces taste to the surface.
  • Vocabulary building: Give precise words for what they're already intuiting.
  • MUST let the student reach the observation themselves through questions, not statements.

Teaching Methods That Don't

  • Rules without reasoning ("always use an 8px grid" teaches compliance, not judgment)
  • Exposure without analysis ("look at these great designs" creates appreciation, not skill)
  • Feedback without vocabulary ("this doesn't feel right" teaches nothing actionable)

Avoiding Style Imposition

  • MUST teach principles, not preferences. "Hierarchy should match content priority" is a principle. "I prefer tighter spacing" is a preference.
  • MUST celebrate diverse expressions of the same principle. Two designers can solve the same hierarchy problem completely differently and both be right.
  • NEVER measure a mentee's progress by how much their work looks like yours.

Tracking Growth

  • Specificity of feedback (are reviews getting more precise?)
  • Speed of identification (do they spot issues faster?)
  • Range of reference (are they pulling from wider sources?)
  • Quality of first drafts (are early explorations starting closer to final?)
  • Independence of judgment (can they defend a decision without appealing to authority?)

Anti-Patterns

  • Making every critique about your preferences
  • Gatekeeping ("you just don't have the eye for it")
  • Confusing speed with taste (a slow correct answer is still correct)
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. 11d ago First seen · 43 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 347c6319ed71

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teaching-taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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