# Agents with Taste

Essay by Emil Kowalski (https://emilkowal.ski)

How to transfer taste into an AI.

Topics: Craft
Source: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/agents-with-taste

## For agents

Nothing to install. This is a reference: cite it, or fetch the source when
the reasoning matters.

Read it at: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/agents-with-taste

The full text is not reproduced here. It belongs to its author. What is
above is the author's own summary and the topics it covers.

Skills in this library that act on the same ground:

- emil-design-eng (https://stackskills.dev/md/emil-design-eng): The design-engineering house style behind Sonner and Vaul.
- prototype (https://stackskills.dev/md/prototype): Builds several genuinely different UI variants behind a live picker.
- apple-design (https://stackskills.dev/md/apple-design): Apple's interface and motion principles, translated for the web.
- better-ui (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-ui): Concentric radius, optical alignment, surface depth, hit areas.
- better-interface (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-interface): Every better-* skill as a single review pass.

## The short version

Agents write competent visual code but have no sense of what great feels like. Writing your rules down as skill files hands them the judgement they lack.

## Verification

- Source link: Resolved (HTTP 200) (pass)
- Reading copy: Plain markdown for agents at /md/agents-with-taste (pass)
- Attribution: Credited to Emil Kowalski (pass)

Full page: https://stackskills.dev/library/agents-with-taste