Appllama Skills

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.

appllama.io · MCP · X · LinkedIn · Product Hunt

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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](skills/appllama-usage/SKILL.md) | 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](skills/appllama-app-design-skill/SKILL.md) | The build bar: native-feeling Expo / React Native screens — Apple HIG fidelity, semantic colors, native controls, anti-slop discipline, Reanimated motion, perceived performance, generated image assets, and a full-motion simulator-verified iteration loop (whole flows recorded and scrubbed at 60 fps, 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

The skills assume the Appllama MCP is connected:

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?

License

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

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Built by Appllama — the design library of top-grossing apps. X · LinkedIn · Product Hunt

Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Appllama
• Source: Appllama/appllama-skills
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://appllama.io/mcp

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.