taste

taste is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,420 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of taste, Apache-2.0.

A judgment guide for reviewing or creating work, including prose, code, designs, and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique an artifact or set a deliberate style before producing one.
Why use it?
It helps avoid bland, overly decorated, or indecisive results by encouraging clear choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to critique an artifact or set a deliberate style before producing one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/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 OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension --skill taste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for taste

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/taste/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/taste)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/taste"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for taste

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/taste"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/taste.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,420 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.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00097 $0.01420
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00710
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00142

Measured 7d ago against content hash 37d6f7bd272b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to taste — 0 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.

skills/taste/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Taste

Distinctive judgment over centroid-AI default convergence. Restraint as default. One strong intentional moment per artifact. The two failure modes — slop and overkill — are reciprocal: both come from refusing to commit. Slop hedges by averaging into AI defaults; overkill hedges by piling on decoration that covers thin ideas.

/taste operates across prose, code, design, and decisions with the same charter and the same eight anchors. It is a judgment register; it does not transform the artifact, it decides what about the artifact is committed and what is hedge.

Modes [LOAD-BEARING]

Mode-selection (hybrid)

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

  • User wording matches is this slop?, overkill?, elegant?, audit, taste-test this, judge thisaudit 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, /taste anchor. Override always wins.

audit mode procedure

Walk the eight anchors one at a time against the artifact. For each: 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. Close with the top-3 ranked fixes. Conflict-handling: when two anchors fail with conflicting fixes (e.g., Restraint says compress, Generosity says expand), surface the tension explicitly — no auto-pick, no fixed precedence list. Tie-break is user-led.

anchor mode procedure

Load the charter and anchors as imperatives the model will honor across 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. The model honors a directive loaded once into context.

The two-sided charter

Side A — slop (centroid-AI default convergence): generic openers ("Sure!", "Of course"), hedge-stacks ("perhaps it might be"), validation phrases ("you're absolutely right"), AI-flat prose with no rhythm, default palettes, defensive nil-checks where impossible, 50/50 decision hedges that pick nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 7d ago First seen · 107 lines · 97 tokens per session scan B 37d6f7bd272b

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taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,420 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 100% identical to taste, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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