Design Taste Skill

What this skill is

This skill is the visual quality bar for every build. It owns both the taste layer (foundations, archetypes, recipes, anti-patterns) and the mechanics layer (template contract, brand theming, BrandMark, light-mode mandate, header right cluster).

This skill is read by:

• mitb-initial-agent on the first task, after the agent has stated its vision and design tokens. design-taste is the implementation contract that turns the vision into a coherent app.
• mitb-agent-prototype and mitb-agent-full-access on subsequent tasks. The vision is already in the codebase by then; design-taste guides additions to match the existing visual language.

The first task is special — it sets the design language. Every task after that respects it. Both modes use design-taste; only the first build uses it to establish the system, and every later build uses it to extend the system.

Reading order — fully read these before writing any tokens or components

The reference files are short and necessary. Do not skim, do not partial-read with head, do not skip: