design-taste

design-taste is a skill for Claude Code from VKirill/claude-lane-stack. It costs 99 tokens per session (856 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 — 57 skills, 4 commands, 17 agents, 1 hook 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 57 skills, 4 commands, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 856 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 $0.00099 $0.00856
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00086

Measured today against content hash 1d54fd926a31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 today.

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 · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design taste

Lane adapter of taste-skill (design-taste-frontend). Upstream writes code. Here it only reviews unless a writer already has UI owns_paths.

Info (print and stop)

If $ARGUMENTS is info / справка: print the block below verbatim, then stop.

design-taste — визуальный антислоп. Не код.

1) Design read: kind / audience / vibe / existing brand (одна строка).
2) Три крутилки: VARIANCE / MOTION / DENSITY. Кабинет = низкий variance.
3) Чеклист tells. Канон = DESIGN.md этой поверхности.

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

Design read (before the checklist)

One line: Reading this as: <page kind> for <audience>, <vibe>, tokens from <DESIGN.md path>.

Cabinet / admin / operate UI: do not apply landing-page chaos (asymmetric hero, cinematic motion). Marketing / landing: landing rules below are in play.

If the brief is ambiguous, ask one question. Do not guess a new brand.

Dials

Surface VARIANCE MOTION DENSITY
Marketing / landing (default) 7–8 5–6 3–4
Portfolio / editorial 6–8 4–7 2–4
Cabinet / admin / operate 3–4 2–3 5–7
Trust / a11y-first 3–4 2–3 4–5

DESIGN.md overrides the table.

Tells (flag, do not auto-restyle off-brand)

  • Inter + slate-900 + purple/blue glow gradient as the default look.
  • Centered hero + three equal feature cards + icon tile above each heading.
  • Nested cards; everything wrapped in a card.
  • Pure #000 / #fff with untinted gray text on a colored surface.
  • h-screen heroes, flex % column math, no max-width.
  • Lucide-everywhere + rocket/shield clichés (if the app already uses one icon set, keep it).
  • Missing hover / focus / empty / error. Wrapped desktop CTA.
  • Serif display “because creative” when the brand is sans.

Full redesign audit list: upstream redesign-existing-projects — use the same headings (type, color, layout, states) against this stack. Do not migrate to React/Tailwind/Motion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. today 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 (115 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 856 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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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