aesthetic-literacy
Aesthetic Literacy
Summary
Gives an agent a structured framework for understanding named aesthetic movements as semiotic systems — not just visual preferences. Provides a 7-dimension decomposition model (palette, type, texture, shape, motion, spatial conventions, cultural markers) and a curated dictionary of 146 major aesthetics organized by family. Enables identification, characterization, disambiguation, and connotation-aware application of any named visual aesthetic.
Used as the foundation for aesthetic-application.
Compatibility / Tooling
This skill intentionally does not declare allowed-tools frontmatter. It is portable across Agent Skills-compatible runtimes and relies on reading this SKILL.md plus skill-local references/ and aesthetics/ markdown files. If an agent has file-reading tools, use them to load the referenced files; otherwise ask the user to provide the relevant excerpt.