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minimalist-ui

Clean editorial-style interfaces. Warm monochrome palette, typographic contrast, flat bento grids, muted pastels. No gradients, no heavy shadows.

47

Quality

48%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./skills/minimalist-skill/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

64%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a strong, highly actionable design system skill with excellent specificity—exact values, banned patterns, and concrete CSS/Tailwind guidance make it immediately usable. Its main weaknesses are the lack of validation/verification steps in the workflow (no way to check compliance with the extensive constraints) and the monolithic structure that could benefit from splitting detailed specs into reference files. Minor verbosity in the overview and some descriptive passages could be trimmed.

Suggestions

Add a validation checklist or review step to the Execution Protocol (Section 8) — e.g., 'Before finalizing, verify: no banned fonts used, no shadows above 0.05 opacity, all borders are 1px solid #EAEAEA, no emojis present.'

Split detailed reference material (color palette hex codes, component CSS specs, animation parameters) into separate reference files and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview with links.

Trim the Protocol Overview (Section 1) — the description largely restates what the subsequent sections define in detail and could be reduced to 1-2 sentences.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is fairly detailed and well-organized, but includes some unnecessary verbosity—e.g., the 'Protocol Overview' description section restates what the constraints already convey, and phrases like 'analogous to top-tier workspace platforms' and 'actively rejects standard generic SaaS design trends' are filler. Some sections could be tightened (e.g., the motion section explains what 'invisible' motion means). However, most content is specific and earns its place.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides highly specific, executable guidance: exact hex codes, exact CSS properties, exact font stacks, exact Tailwind classes, exact animation curves, exact border-radius values, and concrete banned elements. The execution protocol gives a clear step-by-step build order. This is copy-paste ready for implementation.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Section 8 (Execution Protocol) provides a clear 7-step sequence for building interfaces, which is good. However, there are no validation checkpoints—no step to verify the output matches the constraints, no feedback loop for checking color compliance or typography adherence, and no verification that banned elements aren't present. For a skill governing visual output quality, a review/validation step would be important.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-organized into logical sections with clear headings, making it easy to navigate. However, it's a monolithic document (~100+ lines of dense specification) with no references to supporting files. The detailed color palette, component specs, and animation specs could be split into reference files, with the main SKILL.md serving as an overview. No bundle files exist to support this.

2 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

32%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description reads more like a mood board or style guide summary than a functional skill description. It lacks concrete actions (what the skill does), has no 'Use when...' clause to guide selection, and uses design jargon that users may not naturally employ. The visual style details provide some distinctiveness but are insufficient for Claude to reliably select this skill.

Suggestions

Add concrete actions describing what the skill produces, e.g., 'Creates clean editorial-style UI components and layouts' or 'Applies editorial design principles to web interfaces'.

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger terms, e.g., 'Use when the user asks for minimal UI design, editorial layouts, clean interfaces, or magazine-style web pages.'

Include common user-facing terms like 'minimal design', 'clean UI', 'web layout', or 'dashboard design' to improve trigger term coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names a domain (editorial-style interfaces) and lists some specific design attributes (warm monochrome palette, typographic contrast, flat bento grids, muted pastels), but does not describe concrete actions like 'creates', 'applies', or 'generates'.

2 / 3

Completeness

The description partially addresses 'what' (describes a visual style) but has no 'when' clause or explicit trigger guidance. There is no 'Use when...' or equivalent, which per the rubric should cap completeness at 2, and the 'what' itself is more of a style description than an action description, making it weak on both fronts.

1 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Contains some relevant design keywords like 'bento grids', 'muted pastels', 'monochrome palette', and 'editorial', but misses common user terms like 'UI design', 'web design', 'layout', 'minimal design', or 'clean design'. Users are unlikely to say 'flat bento grids' naturally.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The editorial style with specific attributes like 'bento grids' and 'warm monochrome palette' provides some distinctiveness, but it could easily overlap with other UI/design skills since it doesn't clearly delineate its niche or specify what artifact types it applies to.

2 / 3

Total

7

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
Leonxlnx/taste-skill
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