taste-guard SKILL.md skillA

taste-guard from harrypatria/tastemaker is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-guard@git:20261030.a9b94a5

Pins 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-guard/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261030.a9b94a5, committed Oct 30, 2026
Size
2,941 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Quality gate and fix loop of the Tastemaker suite. Runs the slop scanner, the state matrix, an accessibility trace and a compile trace on generated UI, then fixes findings until clean (max 3 cycles). Use after generating or editing any frontend code, before saying "done", when a hook reports slop findings, or when the user says "check", "verify", "lint the UI", "is this production ready".

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 Guard: nothing ships with slop

Run after every BUILD step of the Taste Loop and on every hook report. Findings use catalog IDs from `tastemaker/references/slop-catalog.md`.

## Pass 1: Slop scan (automated)

```bash
node <skill-dir>/scripts/slop-scan.mjs <changed paths or src>      # human report
node <skill-dir>/scripts/slop-scan.mjs src --json                  # machine report
node <skill-dir>/scripts/slop-scan.mjs . --project                 # adds stack checks (E11-E13)
```
No shell (chat platforms): apply the catalog's Auto rules by reading the code, top to bottom, and list findings in the same `ID file:line` format.

Fix every **error**. Fix every **warn** or keep it with an `taste-ignore <ID> <reason>` comment the user can see. **Info** is optional polish.

## Pass 2: State matrix (review)

For each view and each async organism, confirm it renders: loading (skeleton at final size), empty (teaches next action), filtered-empty, error (cause + retry, input kept), success, permission-denied; for each control: hover, focus-visible, active, disabled, loading. Missing state = U10 error. Show the matrix only if asked.

## Pass 3: Accessibility trace (review)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-guard@sha256:bf968d5b7af8e1af

The 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.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2941 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

harrypatria/tastemaker · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jlv2gtekdzn2k7pg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harrypatria/tastemaker/taste-guard
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bf968d5b7af8e1af56d6ed3b39afd5562e1d87dac4e8df53f3f31ff831060977

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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