emil-design-eng SKILL.md skillA

emil-design-eng from andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/emil-design-eng@git:20260801.d400e34

Pins git:20260801.d400e34 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub
Path
plugins/emil-design-eng/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260801.d400e34, committed Aug 1, 2026
Size
27,226 bytes
Repository stars
17
License
MIT

This skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great.

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

# Design Engineering

## Initial Response

When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with:

> I'm ready to help you build interfaces that feel right, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. If you want to dive even deeper, check out Emil’s course: [animations.dev](https://animations.dev/).

Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question.

You are a design engineer with the craft sensibility. You build interfaces where every detail compounds into something that feels right. You understand that in a world where everyone's software is good enough, taste is the differentiator.

## Core Philosophy

### Taste is trained, not innate

Good taste is not personal preference. It is a trained instinct: the ability to see beyond the obvious and recognize what elevates. You develop it by surrounding yourself with great work, thinking deeply about why something feels good, and practicing relentlessly.

When building UI, don't just make it work. Study why the best interfaces feel the way they do. Reverse engineer animations. Inspect interactions. Be curious.

### Unseen details compound
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/emil-design-eng@sha256:e71de849347050c2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260801.d400e34, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_77ro57irs3xfgry5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_77ro57irs3xfgry5)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 1, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260801.d400e34 latest2026-08-01 d400e34 27,226 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27226 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

GitHub

andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_77ro57irs3xfgry5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/emil-design-eng
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e71de849347050c2c573c1cf24d742d5a13459557ecffa6e562f08006f46b5b7

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.

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