design-taste

design-taste is a skill for Claude Code from VKirill/claude-lane-stack. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual review method for web interfaces that looks for generic, repetitive, or machine-made design patterns. It considers hierarchy, spacing, density, movement, and the intended audience without writing product code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique a landing page, portfolio, dashboard, or other web screen for visual hierarchy, spacing, motion, density, and signs of design slop.
Why use it?
It helps identify why a screen feels cluttered or interchangeable before implementation changes are made. It also prevents landing-page styling from being applied blindly to administrative screens.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the lane-stack plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 24 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to critique a landing page, portfolio, dashboard, or other web screen for visual hierarchy, spacing, motion, density, and signs of design slop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vkirill/claude-lane-stack/design-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 VKirill/claude-lane-stack --skill design-taste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VKirill/claude-lane-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lane-stack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 24 agents, 1 MCP server.

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 design-taste

README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for design-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 1,571 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 $0.00117 $0.01571
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00628
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00157

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9c202eb38bb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-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 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.

plugins/lane-stack/skills/design-taste/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design taste

Lane adapter of taste-skill. It reviews landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns, and guides isolated branded mockups. It does not write product UI, and it does not turn cabinets, admin screens, or data tables into landing pages.

Info (print and stop)

If $ARGUMENTS is info / справка, print this block verbatim, then stop:

design-taste — визуальный аудит и направление для изолированного макета.

1) Design read: kind / audience / job / vibe / evidence from the brief, screen and DESIGN.md.
2) Three dials: DESIGN_VARIANCE / MOTION_INTENSITY / VISUAL_DENSITY. Existing tokens win.
3) Evidence audit: type, color, layout/rhythm, assets, states, motion, a11y.
4) Preflight: every finding has evidence, impact and an owner.

Агент: design-lead MODE=audit или MODE=mockup
Чинить: UI-ран после «делай»
Роутер: /lane-stack:web-design info

Design read (before the checklist)

Read the brief, requested route or screenshot, relevant DESIGN.md, current components, and the project's stack before judging taste. Identify:

  • page kind and user job (landing, portfolio, editorial, redesign, cabinet);
  • audience, references, vibe, brand assets, tokens, and existing component language;
  • accessibility, responsive, performance, and product constraints.

Write one line: Reading this as: <kind> for <audience>, serving <job>, with a <vibe> language, using evidence from <paths/screenshots>.

For an existing UI, describe what is already true before proposing change. Preserve information architecture, working accessibility patterns, and the project's brand unless the brief asks for a change. If evidence is missing, write DEGRADED: <missing evidence> and make the smallest safe recommendation. Ask one question only when two plausible design reads would lead to different work.

Three dials

Use the existing DESIGN.md reading when it exists. Otherwise choose a starting range from the brief; these are review dials, not quotas:

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 Changed · +56 lines · +18 tokens per session 9c202eb38bb2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 1d54fd926a31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository VKirill/claude-lane-stack (125 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-11.

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