design-styles

Comprehensive reference for 50 design aesthetics, movements, and visual styles with detailed definitions. Use when creating visuals, illustrations, graphics, or any design work requiring specific aesthetic direction. Each style includes core principles, visual characteristics, color palettes, typography guidance, key elements, emotional qualities, historical context, and AI prompt engineering keywords.

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Content

100%Scale 1-3

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

This is an exemplary reference skill that efficiently organizes 50 design styles with clear navigation, actionable prompt examples, and well-structured progressive disclosure. The content respects Claude's intelligence by providing direct references and examples rather than explaining basic concepts, and the categorization by feeling/mood adds practical utility beyond simple alphabetical listing.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The content is efficiently organized as a reference index without explaining what design styles are or how Claude should understand aesthetics. Every section serves a clear purpose—index, file references, usage examples, and quick lookups.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste ready prompt examples for AI image generation, specific file paths for detailed references, and clear step-by-step usage instructions. The example prompts are immediately executable.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	For a reference skill, the workflow is appropriately simple and clear: identify mood → find style → read reference file → apply characteristics → use prompt keywords. The 5-step process under 'For Visual Design Work' is unambiguous.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Excellent structure with a clear overview index, well-signaled one-level-deep references to 5 categorized files, and quick-reference sections for different use cases. Content is appropriately split between the main skill and detailed reference files.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

92%Scale 1-3

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This is a well-crafted description that clearly communicates both purpose and usage triggers. It excels at specificity by detailing exactly what information each style entry contains. The main weakness is potential overlap with other design-related skills due to the broad 'any design work' trigger, though the focus on aesthetic reference and style definitions provides reasonable differentiation.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'creating visuals, illustrations, graphics, or any design work' and details what each style includes: 'core principles, visual characteristics, color palettes, typography guidance, key elements, emotional qualities, historical context, and AI prompt engineering keywords.'	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both what ('Comprehensive reference for 50 design aesthetics, movements, and visual styles with detailed definitions') and when ('Use when creating visuals, illustrations, graphics, or any design work requiring specific aesthetic direction').	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural keywords users would say: 'visuals', 'illustrations', 'graphics', 'design work', 'aesthetic direction', 'design aesthetics', 'visual styles'. These are terms users naturally use when requesting design help.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	While it specifies 'design aesthetics' and 'visual styles', the broad scope of 'any design work' could overlap with other design-related skills. The mention of '50 design aesthetics' and 'AI prompt engineering keywords' adds some distinctiveness but the trigger scope remains fairly wide.	2 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata' field is not a dictionary	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: tesslio/design-styles
Path: SKILL.md
Commit: afc9289

Reviewed: 13 days ago

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