tastelisted

# Taste Distinctive judgment over centroid-AI default convergence. Restraint as default. One strong intentional moment per artifact. The two failure modes — slop and overkill — are reciprocal: both come from refusing to commit. Slop hedges by averaging into AI defaults; overkill hedges by piling on decoration that covers thin ideas. `/taste` operates across prose, code, design, and decisions with the same charter and the same eight anchors. It is a judgment register; it does not transform the artifact, it decides what about the artifact is committed and what is hedge. ## Modes [LOAD-BEARING] ### Mode-selection (hybrid) Auto-detect from the user's phrasing, with slash-arg override: - User wording matches `is this slop?`, `overkill?`, `elegant?`, `audit`, `taste-test this`, `judge this` → **audit** mode. - User wording matches `taste anchor`, `taste mode`, `taste register`, or anticipates producing fresh work → **anchor** mode. - Anything else → **audit** (default; cheaper to run; no behavior commitment). - Explicit override: `/taste audit`, `/taste anchor`. Override always wins. ### `audit` mode procedure Walk the eight anchors one at a time against the artifact. For each: state the anchor, judge the artifact (pass / warn / fail), cite the Side A or Side B charter row when violated, and write a concrete fix. Close with the top-3 ranked fixes. **Conflict-handling**: when two anchors fail with conflicting fixes (e.g., Restraint says compress, Generosity says expand), sur