minimalist-ui
Clean editorial-style interfaces. Warm monochrome palette, typographic contrast, flat bento grids, muted pastels. No gradients, no heavy shadows.
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Discovery
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 snippet than a skill description. It specifies aesthetic attributes but fails to describe what actions the skill performs (e.g., 'Generates', 'Applies', 'Creates') and completely lacks a 'Use when...' clause to guide skill selection. The design-specific vocabulary provides some niche identity but won't reliably match natural user requests.
Suggestions
Add a 'Use when...' clause with explicit triggers, e.g., 'Use when the user requests editorial-style UI, minimalist layouts, bento grid designs, or clean monochrome interfaces.'
Start with concrete action verbs describing what the skill does, e.g., 'Creates clean editorial-style UI components and layouts using warm monochrome palettes, typographic contrast, and flat bento grids.'
Include common user-facing terms like 'UI design', 'web layout', 'minimalist design', or 'dashboard' to improve trigger term coverage.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
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 doesn't describe concrete actions like 'creates', 'applies', or 'generates'. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | The description only partially addresses 'what' (describes a visual style) but completely lacks a 'when should Claude use it' clause. There is no explicit trigger guidance, and the 'what' is more of a style specification than a capability description. | 1 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Contains some relevant design keywords like 'bento grids', 'monochrome', 'pastels', 'editorial', but misses common user terms like 'UI design', 'web design', 'minimalist', 'layout', or file types. Users are unlikely to naturally say 'flat bento grids' or 'typographic contrast'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The specific aesthetic described (editorial, warm monochrome, bento grids) provides some distinctiveness from other design skills, but without clear action verbs or trigger conditions, it could overlap with other UI/design styling skills. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 7 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
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 for colors, fonts, spacing, animations, and component styles. Its main weaknesses are moderate verbosity (some descriptive prose that doesn't add value for Claude) and the absence of validation/verification steps in the execution workflow. The monolithic structure works reasonably well given the content volume but could benefit from splitting detailed specs into referenced files.
Suggestions
Add explicit validation checkpoints to the Execution Protocol (Section 8), such as 'Verify no banned elements from Section 2 are present' and 'Confirm all colors match the Section 4 palette before finalizing.'
Trim the Protocol Overview (Section 1) description—it restates what the rest of the document already conveys in detail and wastes tokens on marketing-style language.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
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 is thorough but slightly over-explained for Claude's competence level). | 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 code snippets (e.g., `translateY(12px)`, `cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1)`, `box-shadow` transitions). The banned elements list and component specs are copy-paste ready constraints. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Section 8 ('Execution Protocol') provides a clear 7-step sequence for building layouts, which is helpful. However, there are no validation checkpoints or feedback loops—no step says 'verify the palette compliance' or 'check that banned elements are absent before finalizing.' For a protocol governing complex multi-step UI generation, the lack of verification steps is a gap. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-structured with clear numbered sections and sub-headings, making it navigable. However, it's a monolithic single file with no references to supporting files (e.g., a color palette reference, a component examples file, or an icon guide). Some sections like the full color palette or component specs could be split out for better organization, though for a standalone skill without bundle files this is acceptable. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 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.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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No warnings or errors.
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- Leonxlnx/taste-skill
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