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Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop

⭐ Hugely popular: 77k stars, gaining about 3k a week

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repo profile

vintage 2026 launched this year
language JavaScript
license MIT

momentum

total stars 77k
stars added last week +3k
commits / week 2 cooling · -61% vs prior mo
issues closed 41% ~3d to close, median
contributors 7
release cadence n/a
last activity 23d ago

durability

backing community / independent
openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 70% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 18k/mo (+58%/mo) · + 45k total since PR#35

why it's a big deal

  • As code generation gets commoditized, taste becomes the differentiator, and taste-skill encodes it as a reusable instruction file rather than a one-off prompt.
  • Three tunable dials (variance, motion, density) plus opinionated variants, minimalist, brutalist, soft, redesign, let you set a visual direction without hand-holding the model.
  • It bundles image-generation skills for reference boards, so the design language is locked before a line of code gets written.

under the hood

  • Skills are discovered from the repo’s skills/ folder by the npx skills add CLI; you can also paste a SKILL.md straight into a chat or drop it into a project.
  • The v2 rewrite infers the brief, maps a design system, and runs a strict pre-flight check before generating.
  • Pure portable skill files, no runtime, no bundler, no lock-in.

our take from PR#35, 2026-06-03

star history

PR#35 · 32k77k now Feb 2026Aug 2026
  1. PR#35 32k 2026-06-03
  2. now 77k + 45k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-47 understory score output 52 · clout 99
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#35 2026-06-03 on the radar

    Anti-slop design skills that fix what AI-built UIs get wrong

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