Taste Create

Overview

Let’s discover your visual taste together. This skill walks you through 5 phases of style discovery, one question at a time, until we’ve built a complete visual style package.

The result is a fully installable Claude Code skill — a taste companion that will review your visual code, guide your design decisions, and generate UI in your style.

The Process

Five phases, each building on the last. The order matters — do not skip ahead.

• Phase 1: Soul — What should this feel like? We find the emotional foundation before touching anything visual.
• Phase 2: Eyes — What do you find beautiful? We build a shared visual vocabulary from real references.
• Phase 3: Dimensions — Where do you fall on each axis of taste? We position the style on 7 spectrums.
• Phase 4: Tokens — What are the concrete values? We derive colors, type, spacing, shape, and motion from your positions.
• Phase 5: Validation — Does this feel right? We test the tokens against real components and iterate until approved.

Read references/discovery-process.md for the detailed workflow of each phase.

How to Use Reference Files

Each phase has specific reference material. Read the right file at the right time.

Do not read all references at the start. Read what the current phase requires. The question bank is organized by phase — go to the section you need.

Key Rules

One Question at a Time

This is the most important rule. Never ask two questions in one message. Ask one question, wait for the answer, let the answer inform the next question. The process is a conversation, not a form.

Phase-Specific Guidance

Soul (Phase 1): Present each question with 3-4 curated choices that represent different directions, plus always an option for the user to write their own answer. The choices help people who feel but cannot yet name what they feel. The custom option is for people who already know. After they pick, ask a brief follow-up to deepen the answer. Listen for the unsaid — when someone says “clean,” ask what clean means to them.

Eyes (Phase 2): Start by explicitly asking the user to share visual references — URLs, screenshots, moodboards, or images they find inspiring. Say something like: “Now I need to see what you see. Share URLs of sites you love, upload screenshots, drop moodboard images — anything visual that has the feeling we just described. I’ll analyze each one.” Then for each reference, use WebFetch (for URLs) or Read (for images) to analyze and discuss.

Visual Reference Gathering (Phase 2):

• When the user provides a URL: use WebFetch to analyze the website’s visual style. Extract observations about color, typography, spacing, shape, motion, imagery. Report what you see and ask “What do you love about this? What would you change?”
• When the user provides a screenshot or image: use the Read tool to view it. Describe the visual style you observe. Ask the same questions.
• When the user provides multiple images as a moodboard: analyze each, then synthesize common themes across them.
• You can also proactively suggest websites to look at based on the soul direction from Phase 1.

Dimensions (Phase 3): Present each dimension’s positions as options. Walk through all 7 dimensions in order: Tone, Color, Typography, Space, Shape, Motion, Image. After each selection, connect it back to the soul: “You chose [position] for [dimension]. That aligns with the soul’s emphasis on [quality].”

Tokens (Phase 4): Present one token group at a time. Get approval before moving to the next group. Order: Colors, Typography, Spacing, Shape, Motion. Every token must trace back to a dimension position, which traces back to the soul. If you cannot explain why a value was chosen, it is arbitrary.

Validation (Phase 5): Generate 5 key components (button, card, heading + subtext, text input + label, navigation bar). Present each as real, runnable code. For each rejection, identify whether the issue is a token problem or a principle problem. Compile do’s and don’ts from the pattern of approvals and rejections.

The Soul Is the Tiebreaker

Always connect back to the soul when making decisions. If two valid options exist, the one that better embodies the soul wins. If rules and feeling disagree, feeling wins — but articulate why.

The User’s Feeling Is Final

If the user says it does not feel right, it is not right. Do not argue. Ask what feels wrong, adjust, and re-present. “Close enough” is not enough — the soul must feel true, the tokens must feel inevitable, the components must feel like they belong together.

Packaging

When all five phases are complete, assemble the style package.

1. Read references/output-format.md for the full specification of what to generate.
2. Use the templates in assets/style-template/ as the skeleton for the output.
3. Replace all {{PLACEHOLDER}} variables with the content discovered during the five phases.
4. Generate references/web-implementation.md and assets/css/{style-name}.css if the user wants web output.
5. Validate: all files exist, no template variables remain, token values match across files.
6. Offer to install the generated style as a Claude Code skill.

Template Files

The templates in assets/style-template/ define the structure of the output skill:

Showcase — Progressive Building

The showcase is not built at the end — it grows with the discovery process. After each phase, update the showcase and open it in the browser so the user sees their taste taking shape in real time.

Read references/showcase-guide.md for the full specification, including the progressive build schedule.

Build schedule:

Key rule: Every time the showcase is updated, open it in the browser. The user should see their taste growing.

Save to: {taste-name}/assets/showcase/index.html

The Handoff

When packaging is complete, tell the user:

“Your style is ready. It has a soul, a set of principles, concrete tokens, and tested components. The showcase page you’ve been watching grow is complete — open it to see the full picture. You can install this as a Claude Code skill, and it will accompany your development — reviewing your visual output, guiding your decisions, and generating code in your style. The style is yours. It came from your feelings, your references, your choices. I just helped you find the words.”