apply-aesthetic SKILL.md skillA
apply-aesthetic from aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/apply-aesthetic@git:20260927.806f3e1Pins git:20260927.806f3e1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills
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skills-imported/apply-aesthetic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260927.806f3e1, committed Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 1,786 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Apply a visual direction — an archetype (high-end agency, editorial minimal, brutalist, soft-SaaS, dark-tech) or one of 138 named design systems (apple, linear-app, stripe, vercel, notion, material, shadcn, spotify, tesla…) — by resolving it into the token system. Use when the user wants a specific look/vibe/brand feel, or asks to make a design feel premium/expensive/non-generic.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Skill: Apply Aesthetic Choose and apply a design direction without breaking accessibility. ## Steps 1. **Brief Inference first (mandatory)** — before any tokens, name it: industry/domain, audience & tone, the one mood adjective the result must earn, motion depth, and the layout-family sequence (`taste/design-taste.md` → Brief Inference + Variance Mandate). Generating before deciding = slop. 2. Pick a direction in `taste/aesthetic-systems.md`: - An **archetype** (recipe mapped to our tokens), or - A **named library system** — browse with `python3 scripts/design_systems.py list` (or `search <term>` / `show <name>`); specs live in `design-systems/library/<name>/DESIGN.md`. 3. Apply the **Library Contract** (in `aesthetic-systems.md`): re-point `semantic.*` tokens to the chosen system's color roles; map typography/spacing/radius/shadow/motion to `tokens/*.json`. 4. **Verify contrast** of every mapped color pair (`scripts/contrast.py` / `a11y-audit`). A brand value that fails must be adjusted — taste never overrides POUR. 5. Add motion per `taste/motion-choreography.md`; run the pre-flight aesthetic check in `design-taste.md`. ## Output …
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How to install
mdr add aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/apply-aesthetic@sha256:7380c8932f5f16daThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.806f3e1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 27, 2026.
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Source
aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2x3b2r5plvisyi2m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/apply-aesthetic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7380c8932f5f16da28e1374e08dd09802d303cb9ac44a8a2df314d698015e5a2
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