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Skills for Designers and Engineers vs agent-desktop

Compare Skills for Designers and Engineers and agent-desktop - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is Skills for Designers and Engineers?

Free MIT-licensed agent skills for designers and engineers, covering animation taste, performance, and small interface mistakes.

Price: Free

  • Install with npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills
  • Weekend workflow of /remove-animations, then /improve-animations, then /animation-performance
  • emil-design-eng, the main skill, mostly animation plus design advice
  • animate, animate-expo for React Native and Expo, review-animations, and find-animation-opportunities
  • animation-vocabulary, apple-design, write-swift, pick-ui-library, prototype, mobile-native, break-ui, and ask-sonner
  • MIT license, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski
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What is agent-desktop?

Free Apache-2.0 CLI from Vercel Labs. Coding agents read and operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree.

Price: Free

  • CLI and C library for macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • JSON snapshot with refs, then act and snapshot again
  • Headless by default, no pixel matching
  • Optional cursor per agent on macOS, Windows, and Linux X11
  • Apache-2.0
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