taste

taste is a skill for Claude Code from Gekkos-tech/agency-os. It costs 117 tokens per session (22,019 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design-taste-frontend, MIT.

A design-direction guide for landing pages, portfolios, and marketing websites that need a distinctive visual approach. It reads the brief, audience, references, and brand assets before choosing design rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or redesigning a landing page, portfolio, agency site, event page, or editorial-style website; it is not intended for dashboards or multi-step product interfaces.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of producing a generic page with a default or mismatched look. It helps the visual direction fit the type of page, the audience, and the requested mood.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the design-foundation plugin — 7 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or redesigning a landing page, portfolio, agency site, event page, or editorial-style website; it is not intended for dashboards or multi-step product interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gekkos-tech/agency-os/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 Gekkos-tech/agency-os --skill taste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gekkos-tech/agency-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-foundation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for taste

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 22,019 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00117 $0.22019
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.11009
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.04404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.02202

Measured 11d ago against content hash 44f789331db2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to design-taste-frontend — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/design-foundation/skills/taste/SKILL.md · 1,211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tasteskill: Anti-Slop Frontend Skill

Landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. Not dashboards, not data tables, not multi-step product UI. Every rule below is contextual. None of it fires automatically. First read the brief, then pull only what fits.


0. BRIEF INFERENCE (Read the Room Before Anything Else)

Before touching code or tweaking dials, infer what the user actually wants. Most LLM design output is bad because the model jumps to a default aesthetic instead of reading the room.

0.A Read these signals first

  1. Page kind - landing (SaaS / consumer / agency / event), portfolio (dev / designer / creative studio), redesign (preserve vs overhaul), editorial / blog.
  2. Vibe words the user used - "minimalist", "calm", "Linear-style", "Awwwards", "brutalist", "premium consumer", "Apple-y", "playful", "serious B2B", "editorial", "agency-y", "glassy", "dark tech".
  3. Reference signals - URLs they linked, screenshots they pasted, products they named, brands they're competing with.
  4. Audience - B2B procurement panel vs. design-conscious consumer vs. recruiter scanning a portfolio. The audience picks the aesthetic, not your taste.
  5. Brand assets that already exist - logo, color, type, photography. For redesigns, these are starting material, not optional input (see Section 11).
  6. Quiet constraints - accessibility-first audiences, public-sector, regulated industries, trust-first commerce, kids' products. These constraints OVERRIDE aesthetic preference.

0.B Output a one-line "Design Read" before generating

Before any code, state in one line: "Reading this as: <page kind> for <audience>, with a <vibe> language, leaning toward <design system or aesthetic family>."

Example reads:

  • "Reading this as: B2B SaaS landing for technical buyers, with a Linear-style minimalist language, leaning toward Tailwind utilities + Geist + restrained motion."
  • "Reading this as: solo designer portfolio for hiring managers, with an editorial / kinetic-type language, leaning toward native CSS + scroll-driven animation + custom typography."
  • "Reading this as: redesign of a public-sector service site, with a trust-first language, leaning toward GOV.UK Frontend or USWDS."

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,211 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 1,211 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 44f789331db2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository Gekkos-tech/agency-os (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 22,019 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to design-taste-frontend, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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