Agent skill · creative production · affaan-m
taste
Creative-direction layer for music videos and short-form edits in the angelcore / cloud-trance / hyperpop family — a named-genre aesthetic vocabulary, mood + color + light system, beat-synced editing grammar, and a pipeline chaining ECC's video skills from b-roll generation to distribution. Use when a video must feel intentional rather than merely functional — music videos, fancams, moodboard-driven reels, or giving AI-generated b-roll a coherent visual direction.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured aesthetic framework and editing grammar for music videos that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
About 9k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 238,342 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Taste Most AI video advice stops at how to render frames. This skill is the layer above that: what the frames should look like, in what order, cut to what rhythm, so the result reads as one intentional thing instead of a pile of generations. It encodes a specific taste — the angelcore / cloud-trance / hyperpop family (Bladee "Silver Surfer"-era ethereal trance crossed with heavy angelcore) — distilled from a corpus of saved Reels and a tour through a ~70-entry visual-genre library. It is opinionated on purpose. Taste is a point of view, not a menu. The companion file references/genre-taxonomy.md holds the full named-genre catalog. This file is the actionable layer: mood, grammar, pipeline, and a beat-mapped shot plan. When to Activate Building a music video, lyric video, fancam, or visualizer. Making a short-form edit / reel where the feel matters more than the information. Driving AI b-roll generation (fal.ai, Veo, Kling, etc.) and the prompts need a coherent direction instead of one-off vibes. Assembling a moodboard or choosing a visual genre before any rendering. The user says "taste", "make it feel like X", "give it a direction", "angelcore", "cloud trance", "hyperpop edit", "Bladee", "dreamcore", or names a saved reference. The current edit works but reads as flat, generic, AI-slop, or stylistically incoherent. This skill sits on top of video-editing (the mechanics) and remotion-video-creation (the renderer). Use those for how. Use this for what and why. Core Thesis 1. Taste is the last layer, and it must be decided first. video-editing correctly says taste is the final human pass. The trap: if you only decide taste at the end, every generation and cut upstream was a guess. Pick the direction before the first prompt, then let it constrain everything. 2. Coherence beats novelty. One look executed across 30 shots beats 30 looks. A named genre (below) is a constraint that buys coherence for free. 3. Cut to the song, not to the footage. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills affaan-m/taste--e03253