Free MIT-licensed agent skills for designers and engineers, covering animation taste, performance, and small interface mistakes.
Skills for Designers and Engineers is Emil Kowalski's open repository of agent skills for people building interfaces. The README says the skills are for designers and engineers, based on his work at Vercel and Linear, and that agents lack taste, such as choosing ease-in for an enter animation. The skills list those small mistakes and how to fix them.
He explains that idea in Agents with Taste at Agents With Taste. Install with npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills. On October 31, 2026 he suggested a weekend workflow of /remove-animations, then /improve-animations, then /animation-performance.
The set also includes emil-design-eng, animate, animate-expo for React Native and Expo, review-animations, find-animation-opportunities, animation-vocabulary, apple-design, write-swift, pick-ui-library, prototype, mobile-native, break-ui, and ask-sonner for his Sonner toast library at sonner.emilkowal.ski. A newsletter signup is at aiforui.dev. The license is MIT, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski.
The pages checked do not list a paid plan.
Pricing: Free. The repository is MIT, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski. The pages checked do not list a paid plan.
Pricing model: Free
Common questions about Skills for Designers and Engineers
Run /remove-animations, then /improve-animations, then /animation-performance. Emil Kowalski posted that weekend sequence on October 31, 2026 for Skills for Designers and Engineers. He says it removes unnecessary, annoying animations, improves the ones that stay, and makes sure they are performant, which he calls free wins.
The repository is free under the MIT license, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski, and it draws on his work at Vercel and Linear.…
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