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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.



  
  
  



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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:

bash
npx skills@latest add appllama/appllama-skills


Variations:

bash
 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:

bash
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):

bash
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

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