Taste Skill Review 2026: Give Your AI Coding Agent Better Design Taste

Taste Skill is a free, open-source Claude Code skill that stops AI agents from generating generic, slop-looking interfaces — enforcing better typography, layout

If you use AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor to build frontend interfaces, you have probably noticed a pattern: the output tends to look the same. Rounded cards with shadows, Inter font, gradient buttons, the same spacing everywhere. Taste Skill aims to fix this by giving your AI agent portable design rules that enforce better aesthetics.

Taste Skill is an open-source set of portable agent skills developed by Leonxlnx on GitHub. It is designed for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other AI coding agents. Installing the skill gives your agent a set of design rules — covering typography, colour, spacing, motion, and interaction — that prevent it from defaulting to generic “AI slop” aesthetics.

The project was inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s observations on LLM coding pitfalls and the broader recognition that AI-generated frontends often look identical regardless of the application’s purpose.

The skill includes specific typography guidance — avoiding overused fonts like Inter, Roboto, and DM Sans, using modular type scales, and matching font choice to the application’s purpose. It instructs the agent to treat font selection as a deliberate creative decision rather than a default.

Taste Skill instructs agents to use OKLCH colour spaces for perceptually uniform palettes, tint neutrals toward brand hues, and avoid the classic “AI palette” of cyan-on-dark and purple-to-blue gradients.

The skill enforces semantic spacing scales (4pt grid), discourages wrapping everything in identical cards, and encourages varied spacing for visual hierarchy.

Animation guidance covers easing functions, transition timing, and which CSS properties to animate — and which to avoid (no width/height animations, no bounce easing).

The skill includes a list of patterns that are categorically forbidden — border-left accent stripes on cards, gradient text, glassmorphism overuse. These are the most recognisable AI design tells.

Taste Skill also includes optional image-generation skills for creating design reference boards — web layouts, mobile interfaces, brand kits — using ChatGPT Images or similar tools.