taste
Installation
SKILL.md
Taste — Reverse-Engineer a Website's Design DNA
This skill turns a URL into two files:
./{domain}.md— human-readable. Two sections:- Design Map — practical tokens (colors, type scale, spacing, radii, shadows, grid)
- Taste DNA — 3-4 opinionated trade-offs (Trigger → Decision → Reason → Evidence)
./{domain}.json— structured. Same data, machine-parseable, for downstream tools (Cursor, Windsurf, design systems).
The pipeline rejects generic descriptions like "clean and modern". A finished taste.md should read like a senior designer explaining why this particular page made these particular choices — and what plausible alternatives it rejected.
When to activate
Trigger this skill whenever the user wants to study a website's design and capture it as guidance for future design work. Catch all of these: