Changelog

What changed, release by release.

Release notes for design-taste-frontend, newest first. The current version is 2.1.5.

2.1.5

25 October 2026Latest

Fixes from the community: safe chart text, kept screenshots, keyboard access and real italics.

charts.js and the split-heading fallback escape the text they insert, so a label from user data cannot inject markup (#160, #169).
Two widths of the same class no longer overwrite each other's screenshots: --widths 1280,1024,768,390 keeps both tablet renders (#162, #165).
Every control works from the keyboard and has an accessible name, and explains itself by its form rather than a sentence beside it (#170).
Boska, Erode and Sentient load their real italic weight instead of a faked one (#161, #166).
edge-text no longer fails lines cut off with an ellipsis (#156).
The gate runs its last check on the production build, and the inspector warns (dev-server) when it looks at a Vite, webpack or Next dev server (#171).
The redraw rule names its third reason: a section that cannot hold the real content (#163).
CI also checks that every text file is clean UTF-8, runs the inspector file-name tests and parses the scene scripts.

20 October 2026

One inspector run can no longer delete the browser profile of another.

On macOS and Linux a second run could remove the Chrome profile of a long run still going. Fixed by @t4sh with a regression test (#157, #158).
Leftover profiles are cleaned up again, safely: each carries taste-skill-owner.json, and a later run removes only a profile left by a dead run on the same machine.
Profiles from earlier versions are not removed. Delete the ad-chrome-* folders in your temp folder, or in TASTE_SKILL_TMP, by hand.

19 October 2026

One repo, one skill. Nothing in design-taste-frontend changed.

The classic skills moved to taste-skill-classics with the same install names, and their Claude Code plugin moved with them.
The pointer folders for the image skills and for redesign-existing-projects are gone. The README lists where every old install name lives now.
Removed: research/laziness/, the outdated skills/llms.txt, skill.sh and unused images.
The Codex plugin loads only design-taste-frontend.

19 October 2026

Fix: the skill did not load in Claude Code.

The description added in 2.1.0 held an unquoted colon, so the frontmatter failed to parse and Claude Code dropped the skill with "Unknown skill" (#151). It is now a folded block.
tests/frontmatter.mjs parses every frontmatter with a strict YAML parser, and a GitHub Actions workflow runs it, the registry test and a syntax check of the scripts on every push and pull request.

19 October 2026

One skill to reach for.

The classic skills are opt-in: they run only when called by name, in Claude Code, in Codex and in every other agent.
Redesigns are part of the main skill: record the before in a real browser, keep the stack and the content, change type, colour, the frame, states and stock components in that order, and prove it with before and after. redesign-existing-projects is retired.
The image-generation skills moved to imagegen-skills, with the same install names.
full-output-enforcement is removed.
Two Claude Code plugins: taste-skill with the default skill, taste-skill-classics with the classic ones.

19 October 2026

App screens, the frame of a page, the scroll-scene engine and a study of 100 Sites of the Day.

App screens. Dashboards, admin, settings and inboxes get their own route: references/app-screens.md, draw.mjs --app with seven styles, inspect.mjs --app and lint.mjs --app, assets/app.css and assets/charts.js. Distilled from 23 real product screens and tested in four blind rounds.
Product pages that show their app build every interface fragment as a real piece of the app, with real data that adds up.
The frame. The inspector measures no-title, off-centre, lopsided, empty-middle, blank-gap, untitled-section, edge-text, ragged-edges and more, with thresholds taken from the study.
The scroll-scene engine: a sticky stage in assets/scenes/, scenes.mjs to photograph each scene through its hold, and inspect.mjs --film. The library of scenes follows in 2.2.
A study of the latest 100 Awwwards Sites of the Day, captured on 18 October 2026: new guidance on where pictures go and how strong pages move, 10 hero and 13 section compositions, and 21 new studied sites.
New checks: late-title, reduced-hidden and no-poster. The inspector's throwaway Chrome profiles are removed reliably, and TASTE_SKILL_TMP moves them off the system drive.

13 October 2026

A new skill, built from a study of 247 curated sites.

design-taste-frontend is now v2, under the same install name: a folder with instructions, reference files, a library and four zero-dependency scripts.
A build runs in six steps: inventory, draw, the idea and one live thing, build, gate in a real browser, and look and fix.
assets.mjs finds real pictures and footage in open collections without API keys, downloads them and records their credits.
The inspector requires pictures and motion: few-pictures fails a page with fewer than four real pictures, still-page one where too little moves.
Tested in five rounds of blind comparisons on six briefs. In the final round the v2 pages measured 0 inspector failures each, the pages built without a skill 8 to 13.
The previous default and v1 stay installable under their own names. Codex can install the skill as a plugin.

February to May 2026

The skill began as a single SKILL.md, then grew into a collection of style and image skills. The milestones before 2.0.0:

v2 (experimental)May 2026: A rewrite of the original skill with brief inference, hard bans and three dials. It was the default until 2.0.0 and installs today as design-taste-frontend-v2-experimental from taste-skill-classics.
v1.2May 2026: Composition, background and one-image-per-section rules for imagegen-frontend-web.
v1.1April 2026: gpt-taste, image-to-code and the image-only skills for web, mobile and brand kits, the MIT licence, and --skill for installing a single skill.
v1.0March 2026: The npx skills layout, with the soft, minimalist, brutalist, Stitch, output and redesign skills next to the main one.
v0.1February 2026: Taste Skill ships as a single SKILL.md with three dials and anti-slop rules.

CHANGELOG.md covers v1 and every release since 2.0.0; the earlier milestones are in the commit history.