taste

taste is an agent skill for domain-grounded judgment during creation. It helps an agent understand what good looks like in a domain before it writes code, designs UI, drafts documents, or shapes other deliverables.

This repo is intentionally usable in two ways:

• As a skill directory directly
• As a GitHub repo with setup helpers and packaging scripts

Repo layout

taste/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
├── .gitignore
├── agents/
│   └── openai.yaml
├── references/
│   ├── DOMAIN_MODES.md
│   ├── ANTI_PATTERNS.md
│   └── EVALUATION.md
├── scripts/
│   ├── install.sh
│   └── package-claude-skill.sh
└── assets/

Quick setup

Codex

Clone the repo, then link it into your local skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/Hmbown/taste.git
cd taste
./scripts/install.sh codex

That creates or updates:

~/.codex/skills/taste -> /absolute/path/to/this/repo

Claude Code

Clone the repo, then copy the skill into Claude's skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/Hmbown/taste.git
cd taste
./scripts/install.sh claude

That creates or updates:

~/.claude/skills/taste/

Auto-detect

If you want the script to install into both locations when available:

./scripts/install.sh all

Manual setup

Codex manual install

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
ln -sfn "$(pwd)" ~/.codex/skills/taste

Claude Code manual install

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/taste
cp -R . ~/.claude/skills/taste

Usage

Use $taste on this component. It works, but it feels generated.
Apply $taste to this spec and cut what does not earn its place.
Create this landing page with $taste. I want it to feel authored.

Notes

• Codex works best when the repo is symlinked directly so changes to the repo are immediately reflected in the installed skill.
• Claude Code generally expects a copied skill directory.
• The skill itself lives at the repo root so either agent can consume the same canonical files.

Packaging for Claude

To build a distributable zip for Claude-style installation:

./scripts/package-claude-skill.sh

This writes dist/taste.skill.

Assets and release packaging

• Brand assets live in assets/.
• agents/openai.yaml exposes the icon and brand color for skill UIs.
• GitHub Actions now builds dist/taste.skill automatically on tags matching v* and attaches it to a GitHub release.

Cut a release

git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0

That triggers the release workflow and publishes taste.skill as a release artifact.