A read-only reviewer for judging an artifact or decision against a chosen set of taste preferences. It can return a verdict table and ranked fixes, or load a saved taste register.

Use it to audit designs, code, or decisions and to set preferences for evaluating future work.

It helps turn vague questions such as whether something is elegant or overcomplicated into a structured critique without changing files or remote systems.

taste — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by OutlineDriven

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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill taste

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/taste.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Tool Misuse · line 50
Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.01435
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.00718
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00287
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash 98d2c9174731, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

taste scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Destructive or irreversible operation confirmations (e.g., `git push --force`, `rm -rf`).

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/odin-critique/skills/taste/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Taste

Contract

Field	Bound contract
Trigger	User asks 'overkill?', 'elegant?', 'audit', or 'taste-test this', or asks to set a taste register
Authority	Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect	Audit returns a verdict table and ranked fixes in chat; anchor mode persists the register best-effort; no files are written.
Done	A per-anchor verdict table with ranked top-3 fixes is returned, or the taste register is loaded in anchor mode.

Inputs

The artifact or decision to judge (required for audit mode).
No inputs required for anchor mode beyond the invocation.

Procedure

Mode selection

Auto-detect from the user's phrasing, with slash-arg override:

User wording matches overkill?, elegant?, audit, taste-test this, judge this → audit mode.
User wording matches taste anchor, taste mode, taste register, or anticipates producing fresh work → anchor mode.
Anything else → audit (default; cheaper to run; no behavior commitment).
Explicit override: /taste audit or /taste anchor. Override always wins.

Audit mode

Walk the eleven anchors one at a time against the artifact.
For each anchor: state the anchor, judge the artifact (pass / warn / fail), cite the Side A or Side B charter row when violated, and write a concrete fix.
When two anchors fail with conflicting fixes (e.g., Restraint says compress, Generosity says expand), surface the tension explicitly. Do not auto-pick. Tie-break is user-led.
Close with the top-3 ranked fixes.

Anchor mode

Load the charter and anchors as imperatives for subsequent responses.
Persistence is best-effort: applies until the user signals "stop taste" or "normal mode" OR context is compacted, whichever comes first.
Re-invoke /taste anchor if drift is observed.

Auto-clarity exception

Suspend the register temporarily for:

Destructive or irreversible operation confirmations (e.g., git push --force, rm -rf).
Security or data-loss warnings.
Multi-step procedures where order or atomicity matters and the judgment register would obscure structure.
Direct user clarification requests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 40 tokens per session scan B 98d2c9174731

Subscribe to this mod's changes

taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.

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