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Two design skills · both proven

design-taste-frontend vs improve-codebase-architecture

Both skills were run through Claude twice: once on a fixed brief without the skill, once with it. The briefs differ because each is written for the job the skill claims to do, so compare each skill against its own baseline, then decide which difference matters for your work.

design-taste-frontend

tasteskill v2, the anti-slop frontend skill. Art direction for websites, distilled from a study of 247 curated gallery sites (One Page Love, Awwwards Sites of the Day). Deals researched directions (idea, composition, type, palette, photographs, section blueprints) from a library, enforces a strict no-slop house style with a real-browser inspector, and runs a look-and-fix loop on screenshots. Use…

Category
Design
Source
Leonxlnx/taste-skill
License
MIT
Proof model
claude-opus-5-5
Brief
“Build the homepage for Fieldnote, a field-recording gear shop run by two sound engineers in Portland. Include a hero, a featured kit of three recorders and microphones, a short story about how they test every item outdoors, customer reviews, a newsletter sign-up, and a footer. Draw product shots with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit
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Without the skillWith design-taste-frontend
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Without, runWith design-taste-frontend, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

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improve-codebase-architecture

Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

Category
Design
Source
mattpocock/skills
License
MIT
Proof model
claude-opus-5-5
Brief
“Here is the orders module of a small Express app. ```js // orders.js const db = require("./db"); const stripe = require("stripe")(process.env.STRIPE_KEY); const mailer = require("./mailer"); async function createOrder(req, res) { const { items, couponCode } = req.body; if (!req.user) return res.status(401).end(); let total = 0; for (const i of items) { const p = await db.query("select price, stock from products where id = $1", [i.id]); if (p.rows[0].stock < i.qty) return res.status(409).json({ error: "out of stock" }); total += p.rows[0].price * i.qty; } if (couponCode) { const c = await db.query("select pct, expires from coupons where code = $1", [couponCode]); if (c.rows[0] && new Date(c.rows[0].expires) > new Date()) total = total * (1 - c.rows[0].pct / 100); } const charge = await stripe.paymentIntents.create({ amount: Math.round(total * 100), currency: "usd", customer: req.user.stripeId, confirm: true }); const o = await db.query("insert into orders (user_id, total, status) values ($1, $2, $3) returning id", [req.user.id, total, charge.status]); for (const i of items) await db.query("update products set stock = stock - $1 where id = $2", [i.qty, i.id]); await mailer.send(req.user.email, "Order " + o.rows[0].id, "Thanks! Total: $" + total.toFixed(2)); res.json({ id: o.rows[0].id, total }); } module.exports = { createOrder }; ``` The team keeps breaking checkout when they change coupons or stock rules, and the code is hard to test. Review the architecture and present your findings as a single HTML report: the problems you see, the changes you recommend in order of value, and what the code would look like after the most important change.”
Skill commit
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Without the skillWith improve-codebase-architecture
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Without, runWith improve-codebase-architecture, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

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We don’t pick a winner for you: the pages are the evidence. Both proofs can be repeated with the brief, model and commit shown above. See alternatives to design-taste-frontend or alternatives to improve-codebase-architecture.