Taste Skill

/taste — Design DNA Extractor

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Reverse-engineer any website's design taste. Tokens + trade-offs — not just "what", but "why".

**Quick start:** Clone into `~/.claude/skills/taste`, install Playwright MCP, run `/taste `. [Full install guide below.](#installation)

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Why?

Every design extraction tool gives you tokens. "The background is #08090A. The font is Inter. The radius is 6px." That's not taste — that's a spec sheet. When an AI agent has only tokens, it copies the numbers without understanding the decisions behind them. The output looks vaguely right but generates slop the moment the template runs out.

Taste is the "why" behind the tokens: *why* this specific white instead of a branded accent color, *why* 1px inset border instead of a drop shadow, *why* the breathing room lives inside sections instead of between them. An agent with taste can make the right call on a page it's never seen. An agent with only tokens just applies the stylesheet.

`/taste` runs a 4-step pipeline on any URL and produces a `{domain}.md` and `{domain}.json` that explain both.

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What It Produces

Running `/taste https://linear.app` writes two files:

**`linear.md`** — Design Map + Taste DNA:

## Design Map

Background: #08090A
Surface (card): rgba(255,255,255,0.05)
Text