Taste Engine
Reads your brief and designs landing pages and portfolios that don't look like a template.
What it does
Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip taste-engine.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive taste-engine.zip -DestinationPath $HOME\.claude\skills- Start a new Claude Code session so it sees the skill.
- Ask in plain words, for example: "Use Taste Engine on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the taste-engine folder if your computer added an extra folder.
- In Claude.ai, open Settings, then Capabilities, and upload it under Skills.
- Turn the skill on and ask Claude to use it.
Taste Engine uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the taste-engine folder into that agent's skills folder, for example .cursor/skills/ or .github/skills/ in your project.
What's inside
The 15 main sections of the SKILL.md, in order.
- Brief inference
- The three dials
- Brief → design system map
- Default architecture & conventions
- Design engineering directives
- Context-aware proactivity
- Performance & accessibility guardrails
- Dial definitions
- Dark mode protocol
- AI tells
- Reference vocabulary
- Redesign protocol
- The block library
- Out of scope
- Final pre-flight check
In the download: LICENSE, NOTICE.md, SKILL.md
Credit and license
Taste Engine is a renamed, packaged copy of taste-skill by Leonxlnx (github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill), used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.
Questions
Does Taste Engine work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the taste-engine folder as a zip in Settings under Capabilities. It also works in other agents that support Agent Skills, like Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot.
What do I get?
A zip with the taste-engine folder: its SKILL.md (13,320 words) and its license files. One payment, instant download.
Who made Taste Engine?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of taste-skill by Leonxlnx, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.