Designer-made agent skills are everywhere this week. This is the context and the checklist I'd give my agent before installing one. The skills going around: - elayadesign/ai-design-skills on GitHub, by @elayadesigns. Two skills. landing-page-design asks intake questions, then builds a landing page with its own type, spacing and motion system. design-to-motion turns a static design into an animated showcase, exported as MP4 and GIF. Works in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. - Leonxlnx/taste-skill by @LexnLin. Skills that give coding agents taste: art direction, reference images and a browser check. - Nutlope/hallmark, made by Together AI. An anti-slop design skill that checks the page against AI tells, like an eyebrow above every heading. Before you trust a design skill: 1. Read the SKILL.md yourself. A skill is just a file. 2. Check the credits. Does it name the skills it borrowed from? 3. Check what it runs. Writing files is low risk. Installing packages or running scripts needs a closer look. 4. Try it on a throwaway branch first. 5. Find the section where its taste lives (fonts, colors, spacing, motion) and swap in yours. Prompt to paste into your agent: "Read the SKILL.md at [repo URL]. Tell me what it does, every command it runs, what it credits, and which parts conflict with my design system. Don't install anything yet." The first skills I installed this year, I rebuilt to my own taste right away. What's the first thing you check before installing a skill?