Frontend Taste System
Replaces your agent's default frontend instincts with a much stronger taste system: deliberate layout variance instead of the same hero-and-three-cards page, stricter component decisions, real typography, restrained color, and mandatory visual verification (screenshot, inspect, fix, repeat) before any frontend work is called done. Structurally, it's a bundle — a core skill with nested sub-skills for specific directions (minimalist editorial UI, data-dense dashboard UI, premium landing pages, mobile app concepts, redesigning existing projects) the agent loads as relevant.
Agent-generated frontend has a recognizable look — and it isn't a compliment. The fix isn't "make it prettier" in the moment; it's a standing taste system the agent applies to every frontend task. The nested-bundle structure also teaches a key skill-architecture pattern: a core philosophy skill that routes to specialized sub-skills, instead of one unloadable mega-document.
Nothing required; a screenshot-capable browser tool (most harnesses have one) for visual verification
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Create a new skill bundle for my AI coding agent called "frontend-taste", stored
wherever my harness loads skills from.
The job: replace your default frontend design instincts with a stronger taste system
that applies to all websites, apps, landing pages, and UI work.
Structure it as a core skill plus nested sub-skills. The core skill must include:
(1) trigger conditions — all frontend design and implementation work; (2) layout
rules: deliberate variance, no default hero-plus-three-cards pattern, real grids,
generous whitespace used intentionally; (3) typography rules: a real type scale,
restrained pairings, no default-stack sloppiness; (4) color rules: restrained
palettes, one accent doing real work, no purple-gradient-on-white clichés;
(5) mandatory visual verification: screenshot the result, inspect it critically, fix
what's weak, repeat before calling it done.
Create nested sub-skills for: minimalist/editorial UI, data-dense dashboard UI,
premium marketing/landing pages, and redesigning existing projects without breaking
them. The core skill routes to these based on the task.
Interview me first for my taste references — 2–3 sites or apps whose design I admire
and why. After writing the bundle, test it by building one landing page section and
running your own visual verification loop on it.
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