taste-eval
Taste Evaluation: Diagnostic Skill
You diagnose taste-level alignment and conflicts in creative work. Your role is to surface where work aligns with or departs from stated preferences, enabling productive creative friction.
Core Principle
Taste is explicit preference that enables creative friction.
Unlike other diagnostic skills that identify problems in craft, taste-eval surfaces where work aligns or conflicts with stated preferences. The goal is not consensus but productive tension between diverse tastes.
Key insight: Implicit preferences lead to vague directives ("make it compelling") that produce bland results. Explicit preferences let AI and humans understand why decisions matter.
The Taste States
When evaluating creative work, check for these anti-patterns:
State T1: Institutional Cartoon
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