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high-end-visual-design

Teaches the AI to design like a high-end agency. Defines the exact fonts, spacing, shadows, card structures, and animations that make a website feel expensive. Blocks all the common defaults that make AI designs look cheap or generic.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

81%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body is an unusually specific instruction set: exact Tailwind utilities, color values, radii, easing curves, and named component patterns (double-bezel, button-in-button, fluid island nav), plus a sequenced execution protocol and a pre-output validation checklist. Weaknesses are mild redundancy between the checklist and earlier sections and the lack of any fully worked code example for the more intricate patterns.

Suggestions

Add one complete, copy-paste-ready component example (e.g., the double-bezel card or hamburger morph markup) to anchor the most intricate patterns.

Trim Section 8 checklist items that verbatim restate Sections 2-6 rules, keeping only the checks that synthesize across sections.

Consider moving the archetype catalog (Section 3) or motion library (Section 5) to a one-level-deep references file to reduce SKILL.md token load.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense with actionable directives and almost never explains concepts Claude already knows — every line carries specific values (hex colors, Tailwind utilities, cubic-beziers). Minor trimming is possible: stylistic flourishes ("$150k+ agency-level", "(Doppelrand)") and Section 8's checklist, which restates rules already stated in Sections 2-6. That places it at anchor 4 ('efficient; minor instances of over-explanation') rather than 5's every-token-earns-its-place, and well above verbose anchors.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is highly concrete: exact utilities like `rounded-[calc(2rem-0.375rem)]`, `ease-[cubic-bezier(0.32,0.72,0,1)]`, `py-24` to `py-40`, specific hex values, and concrete component recipes (double-bezel shells, button-in-button icon wrappers). As an instruction-only skill the absence of full code files is acceptable per the scoring notes, but patterns like the hamburger morph are described as class hints rather than a complete markup example, leaving minor gaps — anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Section 7 gives a clear five-step execution sequence ([SILENT THOUGHT] → [SCAFFOLD] → [ARCHITECT] → [CHOREOGRAPH] → [OUTPUT]) and Section 8 provides an explicit pre-output checklist as a validation gate covering every prior rule. The skill is generative rather than destructive/batch, so no validation cap applies; the checklist-for-complex-processes element matches anchor 5.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

This is a single-file skill with no bundle files, organized into eight numbered, consistently structured sections with clear hierarchy (archetype catalogs, component recipes, motion, guardrails, protocol, checklist). Structure and navigation are good; it falls short of anchor 5 because at ~94 lines some catalogs (e.g., the archetype and motion libraries) are candidates for one-level-deep reference files that would slim the main body, but there is no monolithic-wall or buried-reference problem.

4 / 5

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Description

58%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 does a solid job stating what the skill covers — specific design dimensions (fonts, spacing, shadows, card structures, animations) plus an anti-pattern blocking function — and uses third-person voice. Its main weakness is the missing "Use when..." trigger guidance inside the description itself, leaving usage timing to be inferred from a separate triggers field.

Suggestions

Append an explicit trigger clause to the description, e.g., "Use when the user asks for a high-end, premium, luxury, or expensive-looking website or landing page."

Fold natural user phrasings ("premium design", "make it look polished", "designer-quality UI") into the description rather than relying solely on the separate triggers field.

State a concrete action verb framing (e.g., "Selects font pairings, spacing scales, and component recipes") instead of only naming the domains covered.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Defines the exact fonts, spacing, shadows, card structures, and animations" and "Blocks all the common defaults that make AI designs look cheap or generic" name several concrete capability areas. Not a 5 because it describes domains it covers rather than listing multiple specific actions, and not a 3 because the coverage of design dimensions plus the explicit blocking behavior goes beyond 1-2 actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

The "what" is clear (defines exact design tokens and blocks cheap defaults), but the description has no "Use when..." clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance; usage triggers live only in a separate frontmatter field. Per the judging guideline, a missing 'Use when' clause caps completeness at 3, and the clear 'what' keeps it from scoring 2.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The description itself contains some natural phrases ("high-end agency", "make a website feel expensive", "look cheap or generic"), and the frontmatter separately lists triggers like "luxury landing page" and "expensive website". Missing common variations users would say (e.g., "premium design", "make it look polished", "designer website"), so it fits anchor 3 rather than anchor 4's 'a few natural terms missing' level of coverage.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The high-end/anti-generic visual design niche is mostly distinct with clear positioning against cheap-looking defaults. Minor overlap risk exists with other design/styling skills (brand styling, design systems), so it does not reach anchor 5's minimal-conflict level.

4 / 5

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14

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20

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Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

nexu-io/open-design

Path

skills/soft-skill/SKILL.md

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