appllama-skills README

The project's README from github.com/Appllama/appllama-skills. As one markdown file: README.md.

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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What is this?Appllama-skills is a pair of AI agent skills that teach coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) to build native-quality mobile app screens by studying patterns from top-grossing apps.
Is this a standalone app, or something I plug into my coding agent?It's not an app — it's two skill packages, plain directories of instructions, that you install into an agent like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex so it can research and build mobile UI.
How do I add these skills to my agent?Run the one-line installer from your project root (it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 70+ other agents), or manually copy the skill folders into .claude/skills/ for a project or ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects.
Do I need the Appllama MCP connected to use these?The appllama-usage skill is built around the Appllama MCP, while appllama-app-design-skill works on its own but gets sharper when the MCP is connected via a custom connector in your agent.
Is using the Appllama MCP free?No — every MCP call spends a credit that only resets monthly under the Pro plan, so sustained research or building needs a paid subscription; only checking your credit balance is free.
What does each skill actually do?appllama-usage is the research engine that tells the agent how to use the Appllama MCP to study screens, flows, and patterns from top apps; appllama-app-design-skill is the build bar that turns that research into native-feeling Expo/React Native screens with correct motion, navigation, and generated assets.
What tech stack do the generated screens use?Screens are built for Expo and React Native, following Apple Human Interface Guidelines for native-feeling controls, semantic colors, and navigation behavior like push vs replace and sheet overlays.
How does it check the screens are actually good?Every build ends in a full-motion simulator loop where entire flows are recorded and scrubbed frame by frame, rather than just eyeballed from static screenshots.
Can I use the Appllama name for my own fork or plugin?No — the code is MIT licensed, but the Appllama name, llama mascot, and logo are trademarks of Antmind Ventures Private Limited and aren't licensed for reuse.
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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