# Taste Vs Trends

> Tell the difference between design decisions that age well and decisions that follow the crowd. Use when evaluating whether a design choice is principled or fashionable, or when a client asks to 'make it look modern.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-taste-vs-trends`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Dragoon0x](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills/tree/main/skills/judgment/taste-vs-trends

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-taste-vs-trends
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Taste vs. Trends

Separate decisions that last from decisions that expire.

## How to use

- `/taste-vs-trends` Apply taste-vs-trend analysis to any design decision in this conversation.

## Constraints

### The Three Tests
- **Time test:** Will this decision still make sense in 2 years? If not, it's a trend.
- **Reasoning test:** Does the "why" bottom out at "everyone's doing it" (trend) or "it serves the user this way" (taste)?
- **Transfer test:** Does the principle work across domains, or only in this medium? Principles transfer. Trends don't.

### Evaluation Rules
- MUST identify whether a design decision is trend-driven or principle-driven
- MUST challenge "modern" as a design goal. Ask: modern for whom? Modern compared to what?
- SHOULD suggest principle-based alternatives when trend-following is identified
- NEVER dismiss trends entirely. They carry information about user expectations. Use them as inputs, not instructions.

### Questions to Ask
- Does this trend solve a real problem for this specific context?
- What would I choose if nobody would ever see my portfolio post?
- Am I choosing this because it's right or because it's safe?

### Anti-Patterns
- Calling everything trendy to seem sophisticated (some trends reflect genuine improvements)
- Rejecting contemporary approaches just to be contrarian
- Equating timelessness with conservatism (bold choices can age well too)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** [Dragoon0x/taste-skills](https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-taste-vs-trends
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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