Taste

Taste Labs is a San Francisco research lab and infrastructure company building "the taste layer for AI" — decoding subjective design domains to end AI slop. Its Taste Engine API extracts brand and design guidelines from a reference site or a prior submission and enhances website and slide-deck prompts so AI generation stays on-brand, returning an enhanced prompt plus structured brand context and reasoning. The company is backed by CRV and Amplify Partners and runs the TasteMakers community program. This profile was enriched from the provider's live public surface, including the Taste Engine API OpenAPI.

Taste publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: health API, Prompt Enhancement API, and Taste Engine API API. Tagged areas include Company, Ai, Design, Machine Learning, and Developer Tools.

Taste’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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27.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 55/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyAiDesignMachine LearningDeveloper ToolsPrompt EngineeringContent Generation

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scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 27.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 12.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Taste health API

The health API from Taste — 2 operation(s) for health.

Taste Prompt Enhancement API

The Prompt Enhancement API from Taste — 2 operation(s) for prompt enhancement.

Taste Taste Engine API API

The Taste Engine API API from Taste — 1 operation(s) for taste engine api.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

taste-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Taste Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Taste Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: taste
name: Taste
description: Taste Labs is a San Francisco research lab and infrastructure company building "the taste layer for AI" — decoding
  subjective design domains to end AI slop. Its Taste Engine API extracts brand and design guidelines from a reference site
  or a prior submission and enhances website and slide-deck prompts so AI generation stays on-brand, returning an enhanced
  prompt plus structured brand context and reasoning. The company is backed by CRV and Amplify Partners and runs the TasteMakers
  community program. This profile was enriched from the provider's live public surface, including the Taste Engine API OpenAPI.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/taste/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a1d5baf94efef5f7c435fc3/6a306ae79b1ce1b28e27e16b_taste_Logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- crv
- amplify
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Ai
- Design
- Machine Learning
- Developer Tools
- Prompt Engineering
- Content Generation
apis:
- aid: taste:taste-health-api
  name: Taste health API
  description: The health API from Taste — 2 operation(s) for health.
  humanURL: https://tastelabs.com/
  baseURL: https://api.tastelabs.com
  tags:
  - health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taste-health-api-openapi.yml
- aid: taste:taste-prompt-enhancement-api
  name: Taste Prompt Enhancement API
  description: The Prompt Enhancement API from Taste — 2 operation(s) for prompt enhancement.
  humanURL: https://tastelabs.com/
  baseURL: https://api.tastelabs.com
  tags:
  - Prompt Enhancement
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taste-prompt-enhancement-api-openapi.yml
- aid: taste:taste-taste-engine-api-api
  name: Taste Taste Engine API API
  description: The Taste Engine API API from Taste — 1 operation(s) for taste engine api.
  humanURL: https://tastelabs.com/
  baseURL: https://api.tastelabs.com
  tags:
  - Taste Engine API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taste-taste-engine-api-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/taste-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://tastelabs.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://tastelabs.com/blog
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/taste-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/taste-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/taste-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/taste-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/taste-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/taste-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/taste-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/taste-well-known.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/taste-lifecycle.yml