Why use skills for design
Ask an AI agent for a website and you often get the same page: a centered headline, a purple gradient and three equal cards. Design skills fix that by giving the agent a real process: read the brief, pick a direction, and check the result against a list of tells before calling it done.
The picks
Taste Engine$9The one to start with. Reads your brief, chooses a design direction and builds landing pages and portfolios that don't look templated.
Premium Polish$3The fonts, spacing and shadows that make a site feel expensive. Great as a final pass.
Glow-Up Audit$3For a site you already have. Finds the generic AI patterns and upgrades them without breaking what works.
Shot to Code$5Designs the page as an image first, then builds the site to match it.
Quiet UI$3Calm, editorial interfaces with sharp type and flat grids.
Raw Grid$3Loud type and rigid grids for portfolios and dashboards that should look bold.
Front-End Finish$3A focused frontend design pass, based on Anthropic's own frontend design skill.
How I use them together
- New page: Taste Engine for the first build.
- Existing site: Glow-Up Audit to find what looks generic.
- Before launch: Premium Polish for type, spacing and shadows.
- Motion: add Motion Director from the Motion and UI Pack when the page needs to move.
Where they come from
Each of these is a renamed, packaged copy of an open-source skill, credited on its page and in the download with its original license. You could gather the originals from GitHub yourself; the library saves you the hunting, naming and setup, and every skill installs the same way.