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design intelligence for AI agents

Make it yours, not the average.

Every AI builds the same site. tastecheck interviews you into a real design system first — then 19 skills make sure your agent ships taste, not slop.

Works with Claude Code · Codex · Gemini · Cursor · MIT

nineteen skills · zero vibes

The whole wall.

Every skill is a checkable contract. Together they are the full color-blocked showcase — substance leads.

    00

    design-system-interview

    Grills you into a committed system + tokens before a line of code.

    01

    improve-existing-website

    Audit a site, infer its intended system, and make it true.

    02

    color-system

    OKLCH palettes that pass contrast.

    03

    web-typography

    Scale, measure, rhythm, font loading.

    04

    spacing-system

    One --space-* scale; section rhythm.

    05

    theming

    Light + dark + high-contrast from one token set.

    06

    responsive-layout

    Survives any width.

    07

    component-states

    Every interactive state + ARIA.

    08

    form-ux

    Forms people actually finish.

    09

    empty-states

    Empty / loading / error, handled.

    10

    micro-motion

    Motion carries intent; decoration never delays the action.

    11

    data-viz

    Honest, Tufte-informed charts.

    12

    art-direction

    Imagery, illustration, iconography as committed decisions.

    13

    a11y-pass

    Runnable WCAG 2.2 AA audit.

    14

    cognitive-a11y

    ADHD · autism · dyslexia · neurodivergence.

    15

    i18n-ready

    Multilingual-resilient UI; EN/ES first-class.

    16

    deslop-ui

    Strip the AI tells — visual and structural.

    17

    humanize-copy

    Remove the ChatGPT accent from writing.

    18

    tastecheck-pass

    The ship gate: every self-check, run + reported.

the method

It interviews you first.

No menus. It surfaces every decision you didn’t know you had.

01

It grills you

Function first, then references — it finds the pattern across what you love.

”’Modern’ is a non-answer — name one you’d resemble.”
02

It commits

OKLCH palette with verified contrast, real type, structure, motion — as tokens.

”One dominant color, not five. And not indigo→violet.”
03

It builds & checks

The skills apply the system, then audit the result against your spec.

”That wine-red is the new tell. For your energy, push here.”

what we refuse

No. Hard no.

It’s not just the look — the skeleton repeats, and so does the copy. We refuse all three planes.

The look

Purple gradient or editorial serif — the same average, one season apart.

The structure

Centered hero, three cards, equal grid — the same bones under any skin.

The copy

The ChatGPT accent — buzzwords, hedging, one tired rhythm. We strip it.

install

One command. Then just build.

$ git clone https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/tastecheck
$ ./tastecheck/install.sh