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taste-skill from huytieu/cog-second-brain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/taste-skill@git:20260818.622a5e5

Pins git:20260818.622a5e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: huytieu/cog-second-brain
Path: skills/taste-skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260818.622a5e5, committed Aug 18, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 7, 2026
Size: 73,196 bytes
Repository stars: 1,350
License: MIT

Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.

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

# tasteskill: Anti-Slop Frontend Skill

> Landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. Not dashboards, not data tables, not multi-step product UI.
> Every rule below is **contextual**. None of it fires automatically. First read the brief, then pull only what fits.

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## 0. BRIEF INFERENCE (Read the Room Before Anything Else)

Before touching code or tweaking dials, **infer what the user actually wants**. Most LLM design output is bad because the model jumps to a default aesthetic instead of reading the room.

### 0.A Read these signals first
1. **Page kind** - landing (SaaS / consumer / agency / event), portfolio (dev / designer / creative studio), redesign (preserve vs overhaul), editorial / blog.
2. **Vibe words** the user used - "minimalist", "calm", "Linear-style", "Awwwards", "brutalist", "premium consumer", "Apple-y", "playful", "serious B2B", "editorial", "agency-y", "glassy", "dark tech".
3. **Reference signals** - URLs they linked, screenshots they pasted, products they named, brands they're competing with.
4. **Audience** - B2B procurement panel vs. design-conscious consumer vs. recruiter scanning a portfolio. The audience picks the aesthetic, not your taste.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/taste-skill@sha256:0526619f08040c91

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.622a5e5, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ryby7gsefu63lcjt.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ryby7gsefu63lcjt)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 7, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 11 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260818.622a5e5 latest	2026-08-18	622a5e5	73,196 B	A	view · diff
git:20260807.b852369	2026-08-07	b852369	87,650 B	B	view

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 (73196 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

huytieu/cog-second-brain · 1,350 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ryby7gsefu63lcjt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=huytieu/cog-second-brain/taste-skill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0526619f08040c914dae9d8cdfddc8f30519d59c0482bf63d9629c646ad36161

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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