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v3.8.1: Paired Anti-Slop Design Skills

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@huytieu huytieu released this 27 Jul 14:06
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Paired anti-slop design skills (2)

The two skills held back from v3.8.0 pending a provenance check, now confirmed original and shipped. They are a pair with a hard boundary, because the two surfaces fail in opposite ways and a single "make it look good" skill gets both wrong.

  • taste-skill: landing pages, portfolios, marketing, editorial. Most model design output is bad because it jumps to a default aesthetic instead of reading the room, so this forces a one-line Design Read (page kind, audience, vibe signals, existing brand assets, quiet constraints) before any code. Explicit variance/motion/density dials, real design systems where they apply, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.
  • product-ui-taste: dashboards, data tables, forms, wizards, settings, list/detail, admin consoles, app shells. Marketing UI lives on first impression; product UI lives on the hundredth use, under real data, by someone doing a job. The failure mode is not a templated aesthetic, it is a prototype that dies on contact with real data. Forces a Product Read and three dials (DENSITY, DATA_COMPLEXITY, CONSEQUENCE), budgets the frame in pixels top-down before content, and enforces the anti-defaults: rows instead of card-soup, correct scroll ownership, sticky headers, frozen-column offsets, z-index tiers, plus the states marketing UI never has (read-only, permission-denied, plan-locked).

The boundary is the point. taste-skill hands dense product UI to product-ui-taste; never run both on the same component. On a mixed brief (a landing page with an embedded live dashboard), taste-skill takes the hero and product-ui-taste takes the product surface.

Both resolve the host design system's real API before writing UI rather than inventing component props, and map across Carbon, Polaris, Atlaskit, Fluent, Primer, Material 3, Radix/shadcn, and Ant.

Changed

  • Skill count 31 → 33 across all manifests, AGENTS.md, README.md, SETUP.md, .github/MARKETPLACE.md, and docs/AGENT-SUPPORT.md.
  • .gitignore now covers harness runtime artifacts (.claude/logs/, 04-projects/harness/runs/), which checkpoint.sh and /execute write per-user and which should never land in a user's commits.
  • .github/MARKETPLACE.md release checklist gained the three steps that were being done by hand: refresh the packaged-version line, cut a GitHub Release, re-index the directories.

Full changelog: https://github.com/huytieu/COG-second-brain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

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