taste-skill

taste-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from phuonghx/aim-cli. It costs 100 tokens per session (5,995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for landing pages, portfolios, marketing sites, and redesigns that helps an agent make deliberate visual choices instead of producing generic layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and review the visual direction, layout, typography, styling, animation, and final quality of a marketing-focused website.
Why use it?
It provides a way to identify and avoid common machine-generated design patterns. It also helps connect the brief to a consistent visual direction, design system, and motion style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan and review the visual direction, layout, typography, styling, animation, and final quality of a marketing-focused website.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuonghx/aim-cli/taste-skill
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 phuonghx/aim-cli --skill taste-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuonghx/aim-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,995 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 $0.00100 $0.05995
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.02398
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00600

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c3b72467dba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taste-skill 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 1mo 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.

aim/templates/aim-agents/skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

taste-skill — A Filter Against Generic Frontend Output

Scope: landing pages, portfolios, marketing sites, and redesigns of those. Out of scope: dashboards, dense data tables, admin panels, multi-step wizards, native mobile. Nothing here is a default that fires on its own. Read the brief, then pull in only the rules that fit it.

How to use this skill

  1. Work through Step 1 — Read the brief and state a one-line direction.
  2. Set the three dials (Step 2). They gate every layout, motion, and density call below.
  3. Decide foundation: a real design system, or a hand-built aesthetic (Step 3 → design-systems.md for the lookup table, install lines, and source links).
  4. Build against the principles (Steps 4–7), avoiding the tells catalogued in tells.md.
  5. For scroll-driven and physics motion, follow the patterns in motion-recipes.md.
  6. Clear the pre-flight checklist (Step 8) before you ship a single line.
Reference file Open it when
design-systems.md Choosing a foundation; need official package names, install lines, or canonical docs
tells.md Auditing output for machine-generated signatures; the full ban list
motion-recipes.md Implementing sticky-stack, horizontal-pan, or scroll-reveal motion

Step 1 — Read the brief before anything else

Most weak design output comes from jumping straight to a house aesthetic instead of listening. Resist that.

Signals to extract:

  • Surface type — SaaS / consumer / agency / event landing; developer / designer / studio portfolio; redesign (keep the brand vs. replace it); editorial or blog.
  • Mood language the person actually used — "calm", "minimal", "premium", "playful", "brutalist", "editorial", "dark/technical", and so on.
  • References — links, screenshots, named products, competitors.
  • Who reads it — a procurement committee, a design-literate shopper, and a recruiter skimming a portfolio each want a different language. Their context picks the aesthetic, not your preference.
  • Existing brand material — logo, colors, type, photography. On a redesign these are inputs, not suggestions (Step 7).
  • Hard constraints — accessibility-critical, regulated, public-sector, children's products, trust-first commerce. These override any aesthetic instinct.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 1mo ago First seen · 260 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A c3b72467dba4

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taste-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuonghx/aim-cli (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 5,995 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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