taste-direction SKILL.md skillA
taste-direction from harrypatria/tastemaker is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-direction@git:20261030.a9b94a5Pins git:20261030.a9b94a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harrypatria/tastemaker
- Path
skills/taste-direction/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261030.a9b94a5, committed Oct 30, 2026
- Size
- 3,096 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Design decision engine of the Tastemaker suite. Chooses style, palette, typography, layout, navigation, density, motion and chart types from the product archetype and audience, with a one-line reason for each, and runs UX-law and accessibility checks before any code. Use when starting or restyling any UI, choosing colors or fonts, picking a dashboard layout or chart, or when output "looks generic". Extends ui-ux-pro-max style and palette lookups with a reasoned, slop-free decision.
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
# Taste Direction: decide before you draw Taste is a chain of reasons. Output a **Design Decision** before code. Every line needs a "why" tied to the product, the audience or the data. Trend is never a reason. ## Procedure 1. Read archetype, users, top-3 questions and risk from `BUILD_MANIFEST.md` (or infer them in 3 lines). 2. **Style**: one primary + at most one modifier (`references/styles.md`). 3. **Palette**: domain recipe, one accent, semantic status set; verify contrast (`references/palettes.md`, `../taste-tokens/scripts/contrast.mjs`). 4. **Type**: pairing + scale + numeric style (`references/typography.md`). 5. **Layout + nav + density**: from the user's top questions, not from a template (`references/layout-patterns.md`). 6. **Interaction**: forms, tables, feedback, destructive flows (`references/interaction.md`). 7. **Motion level**: none / subtle / expressive with durations (`references/motion.md`). 8. **Charts**: one chart per question (`references/dataviz.md`). 9. **Pre-flight**: UX laws + accessibility floor (`references/ux-laws.md`). Name the top risk for this audience. ## Output (8 lines, shown to the user on new builds so they can redirect cheaply) ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-direction@sha256:964332868a3bf5eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.a9b94a5, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 30, 2026.
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Source
harrypatria/tastemaker · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bfsov46ltvtepwlf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-direction GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/964332868a3bf5ea062f049e99f37e1ca0ce424f2c11e487e4cf8f0f33ceb89d
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