Emil Kowalski
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Free MIT-licensed agent skills for designers and engineers, covering animation taste, performance, and small interface mistakes.
What is Skills for Designers and Engineers?
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 https://emilkowal.ski/ui/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 https://sonner.emilkowal.ski. A newsletter signup is at https://aiforui.dev/skills. 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.
Features
- 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 Skills for Designers and Engineers?
An open repository of agent skills by Emil Kowalski. The README says they help designers and engineers build better interfaces, based on his work at Vercel and Linear. The premise is that agents lack taste, and the skills list small mistakes and how to fix them.
How much does it cost?
It is free. The license file is MIT, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski. The README and the October 31, 2026 post do not list a paid plan.
How do I install the skills?
Run npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills. The repository is https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills. A newsletter signup for skill updates is at https://aiforui.dev/skills.
What is the weekend animation workflow?
On October 31, 2026, Emil Kowalski suggested running /remove-animations, then /improve-animations, then /animation-performance. He says that sequence removes unnecessary, annoying animations, improves existing ones, and makes sure they are performant.
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