Perplexity Computer gains the Taste Skill — the marketplace's first third-party creator entry on the trial-credit playbook
From the AI digest for 2026-10-23
What happened: Arav Srinivas announced (~11:33 AM ET October 23) that Perplexity Computer "now has more taste in building websites, thanks to @LexnLin's open-source skill, now integrated inside," handing out 5,000 credits per user to tinker with it. Per the Computer account's listing, the Taste Skill "sets an art direction before Computer builds a website," with layout and type drawing on 247 sites from Awwwards and One Page Love; /taste-skill tasks are free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user.
What's genuinely new: The time-limited-free-trial structure's third instance in three days — /graphify (October 21) and /php2shell-exposure-check (October 22) preceded it — and the first instance built on a third party's open-source skill rather than a first-party build: the marketplace is now distributing outside creators' work under the same promo playbook. The new subject-matter wrinkle is aesthetic — a named, quantified reference set (247 sites) for agentic web design — and distinct from /graphify's codebase-visualization function.
Watch: Whether the free-trial pattern keeps recurring into paid usage; whether more outside creators ship skills into the marketplace; any independent look at what a "taste" pass actually changes in Computer's built sites.