appllama-skills README

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Appllama

A builder, not just a researcher.

Agent skills that make AI agents genuinely good at building mobile apps —
studied against the top-grossing apps, finished to a simulator-verified bar.

skills.sh installs Appllama official License: MIT

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Appllama is the design library of top-grossing mobile apps — their real screens, flows, and UI patterns, with revenue and download context. These skills turn that library into an agent's working method: study every screen of the apps that already win, extract the category's design language, then build screens that hold up next to them.

The skills

Skill What it does
appllama-usage The research engine: how to use the Appllama MCP like a design director — the full tool map, and the playbooks for building an app from scratch, improving an existing screen, and flow & element research.
appllama-app-design-skill The build bar: native-feeling Expo / React Native screens — Apple HIG fidelity, semantic colors, native controls, anti-slop discipline, navigation that behaves (push vs replace, sheets and overlays, the one-way doors where back must not exist), a strict motion bar (should it animate at all, springs that carry the finger's velocity, nothing on the JS thread), generated image assets, and a full-motion simulator loop (whole flows recorded and scrubbed frame by frame, not screenshots).

They are designed as a pair: usage decides what to study, design decides how to build, and both insist the loop only ends in a simulator with a screen you can't fault.

Install

One command, from your project root — works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 70+ other agents:

npx skills@latest add appllama/appllama-skills

Variations:

# install for specific agents, no prompts
npx skills@latest add appllama/appllama-skills -a claude-code -a cursor -y

# install user-wide instead of per-project
npx skills@latest add appllama/appllama-skills -g

Only want the app design skill?

appllama-app-design-skill stands on its own — the native-quality build bar, anti-slop discipline, and the full-motion simulator loop work with or without the Appllama MCP connected:

npx skills@latest add appllama/appllama-skills --skill appllama-app-design-skill

(The same --skill flag installs only appllama-usage if you want just the research engine.)

Manual install

Skills are plain directories — copy them into your agent's skills folder (.claude/skills/ per project, ~/.claude/skills/ user-wide, or your harness's equivalent):

git clone https://github.com/appllama/appllama-skills
cp -r appllama-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

Connect the Appllama MCP

appllama-usage runs on the Appllama MCP; appllama-app-design-skill is sharper with it connected. The endpoint:

https://mcp.appllama.io/mcp

Add it as a custom connector in Claude, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client and approve the connection with your Appllama account. MCP access is part of Pro; credits reset in full on the 1st of each month. Every call spends one credit — get_credits is always free.

Try it

With the MCP connected and the skills installed, ask your agent:

Build me a habit tracker. Study the top-grossing habit apps first and don't stop until every screen survives the simulator comparison.

Make this screen better. (paste a screenshot, code, or a "Copy Screen ID" ref from appllama.io)

How do the best fitness apps structure onboarding — how long, what does each step earn, and where does the paywall sit?

Wire up the checkout flow. Decide which screens push, which present as sheets, and make sure nobody can go back into the paywall after paying.

Review the animations in this app — what should be deleted, what's on the wrong thread, what's missing velocity — and give me the plan.

License

MIT. The Appllama name, llama, and logo are trademarks of Antmind Ventures Private Limited — the license does not grant rights to use them.

Built by Appllama — the design library of top-grossing apps.
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这是什么？Appllama-skills 是一对 AI 智能体技能，通过研究头部畅销应用的设计模式，教会编程智能体（Claude Code、Cursor、Codex 等）构建原生品质的移动应用界面。
这是独立应用，还是接入我编程智能体的东西？它不是应用——而是两个技能包，即存放指令的普通目录，安装到 Claude Code、Cursor 或 Codex 等智能体中，让它能够研究并构建移动 UI。
如何把这些技能添加到我的智能体？在项目根目录运行一键安装脚本（它支持 Claude Code、Cursor、Codex 以及 70 多个其他智能体），或手动把技能文件夹复制到某个项目的 .claude/skills/，或所有项目共用的 ~/.claude/skills/。
使用这些技能需要连接 Appllama MCP 吗？appllama-usage 技能围绕 Appllama MCP 构建，而 appllama-app-design-skill 可以独立工作，但在你的智能体中通过自定义连接器接入 MCP 后效果会更好。
使用 Appllama MCP 是免费的吗？不是——每次 MCP 调用都会消耗一个额度，而额度只有在 Pro 套餐下才每月重置，因此持续的研究或构建需要付费订阅；只有查询额度余额是免费的。
每个技能具体做什么？appllama-usage 是研究引擎，告诉智能体如何使用 Appllama MCP 研究头部应用的界面、流程和设计模式；appllama-app-design-skill 则是构建端的把关标准，把研究成果转化为具有原生手感的 Expo/React Native 界面，动效、导航正确，所需资源也都已生成。
生成的界面使用什么技术栈？界面面向 Expo 和 React Native 构建，遵循 Apple Human Interface Guidelines，实现原生手感的控件、语义化颜色，以及 push 与 replace、sheet 浮层等导航行为。
它如何检验界面确实够好？每次构建都以全动效模拟器循环收尾，完整流程会被录制下来并逐帧回放检查，而不是只靠静态截图目测。
我可以把自己的分支或插件命名为 Appllama 吗？不可以——代码采用 MIT 许可，但 Appllama 名称、羊驼吉祥物和徽标是 Antmind Ventures Private Limited 的商标，未授权复用。
What are similar projects?evondevKit, oil-ui, skills, taste-skill, ui-ux-pro-max-skill, superdesign-skill, baoyu-design, open-steps
Which topics is it in?mobile-ui, expo, mcp-client, ui-design, claude-skill, codex-skill, design-system, claude-code-skill, react-native, mobile-development, agent-skill, claude-skills
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