Agent skill · affaan-m
taste-distillation
Measure a set of reference videos into a reusable style pack - colour grade as a 3D LUT, cut rhythm as a shot-length distribution, hero stills, screen-blend overlay plates, and a text spec for a generative model. Use when the user wants to capture the look of reference footage, build a repeatable look, mint assets from references, or reproduce someone's grade and pacing.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Taste Distillation This standalone skill ships its implementation in scripts/; use taste-application for the subsequent generated or local-take edit. Keep each named genre in its own pack. Measurements from Flash Ethereal must not be silently reused for Fluid Sketch or 3D Cyber Glitch. A measured zero is valid data; distinguish it from an absent field. Local dependencies are in scripts/requirements.txt. Separately authorized provider work also needs scripts/requirements-live.txt, credentials and explicit TASTEFORGEALLOWLIVE=1. --dry-run does not read credentials or submit jobs. Never infer that a workflow was saved from a local endpoint name; use the actual provider-side workflow or request evidence. Turn reference videos into a style pack: a folder of measurements and assets that later stages consume deterministically. When to Activate "capture the look of these clips" / "distill the vibe" / "make this repeatable" User has reference footage and wants a LUT, a grade, or matching pacing Building a library of looks partitioned by genre Any request where the answer would otherwise be "describe the style in a prompt" The Core Finding Prompting cannot deliver a grade. Measurement can. Measured on real footage: three paid generations with escalating colour direction moved midtone a\ from +1.9 → +2.8 → +0.3 against a +24.9 target, and contrast never left ~19 against a 34.7 target. Applying a measured pack to the same footage hit chroma MAE 1.88 and contrast 33.7 in one deterministic pass, for free. So the split is: the model supplies content, motion and lighting structure; the pack supplies the look. Colour words in a generation prompt are worse than useless — they cost money and push the render away from the neutral base the LUT wants. Say so explicitly in the prompt: "Colour: none. Render neutral. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills affaan-m/taste-distillation