Taste Skill gives AI-built interfaces a design brief
A portable set of frontend instructions asks coding agents to define visual direction, audit existing screens, and check the result.
Taste Skill is an MIT-licensed collection of agent skills for frontend design. Its default skill asks a coding agent to read the brief before building, infer the audience and visual language, set layout, motion, and density controls, and check the finished interface against those decisions. The files are readable and editable, and the repository documents use with Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code.
The shared post cited 88,000 GitHub stars; that count changes and says nothing by itself about design quality. More importantly, installing a skill does not guarantee a good interface. The quality still depends on the brief, brand assets, content, implementation, and a visual review in the actual browser.
Start with a design read
Before writing components, identify the product type, audience, tone, content density, and desired amount of motion. Choose a specific layout direction and a small set of color and typography tokens. This gives the agent decisions to follow rather than leaving it to default patterns.
Audit before redesigning
For an existing screen, first name the weak points in hierarchy, spacing, type, imagery, and interaction states. Taste Skill also offers a dedicated redesign skill. Keep the parts that already express the brand, then change the areas with a clear reason.
Review both themes and the real output
The current default skill calls for light and dark modes on consumer pages unless the brief specifies otherwise, as well as reduced-motion handling and a final check. Its default v2 is marked experimental, so inspect the installed version and adapt rules that conflict with the project’s own design system.
A useful instruction to pair with the skill
This prompt turns the skill into a reviewable workflow; it does not replace looking at the rendered page.
Use the installed Taste Skill for this interface. Before changing code, summarize the audience, purpose, visual tone, layout direction, typography, color tokens, and motion level in a short design map. If the page already exists, audit its current hierarchy, spacing, imagery, accessibility, and interaction states first. Implement the smallest coherent set of changes, then inspect the rendered page at desktop and mobile sizes and in the required color modes. Report which design rules were met and what still needs human judgment.