pick-ui-library SKILL.md skillA
pick-ui-library from emilkowalski/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/pick-ui-library@git:20260915.85e8e23Pins git:20260915.85e8e23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- emilkowalski/skills
- Path
skills/pick-ui-library/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260915.85e8e23, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,790 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47,883
- License
- MIT
Pick the right library for a given frontend task from a curated, opinionated list — numbers, OTP inputs, charts, command menus, virtualization, drag and drop, toasts, state, styling, and more. Only runs when explicitly invoked; it does not trigger on its own.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Picking The Right Library
## Initial Response
When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with:
> I'm ready to pick the right library for your task, my picks come from Emil Kowalski's curated list.
Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question.
A lookup skill. When invoked with a task ("I need toasts", "what should I use for drag and drop?"), match the task to the curated list below and recommend the library. These are deliberate, taste-driven picks — don't substitute alternatives outside this list unless the user asks for one or the task genuinely isn't covered.
## How to use this
1. **Identify the task**, not the library the user named. "I need to show a dropdown" is a UI-primitives task (base-ui), even if they asked about something else.
2. **Check what's already installed.** Look at `package.json` first. If the project already uses a listed library, use it. If it uses a competitor (e.g. react-window instead of Virtuoso), flag the recommendation but don't churn the dependency without being asked.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/pick-ui-library@sha256:675fdce308683256The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.85e8e23, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260915.85e8e23 latest | 2026-09-15 | 85e8e23 | 4,790 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0b85d4b | 2026-09-15 | 0b85d4b | 4,893 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.f6f79ca | 2026-07-21 | f6f79ca | 4,514 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.049c92e | 2026-07-21 | 049c92e | 4,518 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4790 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
emilkowalski/skills · 47,883 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5xzxn27t6jd3a7lx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/pick-ui-library GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/675fdce308683256ed617351a9b74d23457a5fbd0a562d9831b9c764b8c5e682
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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