Skill: Apply Aesthetic

Steps

1. Brief Inference first (mandatory) — before any tokens, name it: industry/domain, audience & tone, the one mood adjective the result must earn, motion depth, and the layout-family sequence (

   taste/design-taste.md

   → Brief Inference + Variance Mandate). Generating before deciding = slop.
2. Pick a direction in

   taste/aesthetic-systems.md

   :
   • An archetype (recipe mapped to our tokens), or
   • A named library system — browse with

     python3 scripts/design_systems.py list

     (or

     search <term>

     /

     show <name>

     ); specs live in

     design-systems/library/<name>/DESIGN.md

     .
3. Apply the Library Contract (in

   aesthetic-systems.md

   ): re-point

   semantic.*

   tokens to the chosen system's color roles; map typography/spacing/radius/shadow/motion to

   tokens/*.json

   .
4. Verify contrast of every mapped color pair (

   scripts/contrast.py

   /

   a11y-audit

   ). A brand value that fails must be adjusted — taste never overrides POUR.
5. Add motion per

   taste/motion-choreography.md

   ; run the pre-flight aesthetic check in

   design-taste.md

   .

Output

design-code