taste-skill

A web-design skill for creating or redesigning visually expressive pages, such as marketing, campaign, or editorial pages. It defines a page-specific visual direction while respecting the existing site's content, components, and brand rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or implement expressive web pages and redesigns. It helps review the audience, action, content, layout, breakpoints, interface states, assets, and technology already used by the site.
Why use it?
It helps avoid designs that ignore the page's purpose, existing interface, accessibility needs, or established visual system. It first examines what already works and what the page must achieve.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhpeng24/devkit/taste-skill
Any agent
npx skills add zhpeng24/devkit --skill taste-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhpeng24/devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash c53cc3418140, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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.

skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Design Taste

Create a page-specific visual system, not a copied aesthetic. This skill owns web design direction and implementation quality; it does not own image-only deliverables or reference-to-code fidelity work.

Scope and routing

Use for expressive web pages and redesigns. Route pure image concepts to imagegen-frontend-web; route an approved screenshot, Figma frame, or reference-led implementation to image-to-code-skill. Do not use it to redesign product flows, native mobile UI, or to impose a framework.

Read before changing

  1. Inspect the brief: audience, page purpose, conversion/action, real content, success criteria, constraints, and source assets.
  2. For an existing UI, audit its routes, components, tokens, breakpoints, states, accessibility, and what users already recognize. Preserve what works before proposing a change.
  3. Identify the actual stack, installed dependencies, and local conventions. Keep the existing framework and component system unless the brief explicitly authorizes a change.

Existing design tokens, components, logos, imagery, and brand rules are authoritative. Do not replace them with a personal palette, substitute unlicensed assets, or invent claims, metrics, testimonials, or product data.

Define the visual grammar

Write a short direction before implementation: hierarchy, palette use, type scale, spacing rhythm, shape/radius, image treatment, density, and motion policy. Make those choices fit the audience and content; avoid generic centered-gradient heroes, uniform card grids, nested containers, decorative pills, and repeated boxed sections when they do not serve the page.

When the brief has no brand reference, derive the direction from the product, audience, content, and desired action. A familiar framework or a short deadline is not permission to migrate the existing stack or fall back to a generic “premium AI” recipe.

Use purposeful variation in composition while keeping a coherent system. Prefer real content and assets; label unknown content as a placeholder rather than presenting it as fact.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A c53cc3418140

Subscribe to this mod's changes

taste-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhpeng24/devkit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 646 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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