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gestures from emilkowalski/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- emilkowalski/skills
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- git:20261108.5206a95, committed Nov 8, 2026
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- 54,854
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- MIT
Build drag, swipe, and sheet interactions that track the finger 1:1 and stay interruptible. Use when building or fixing anything the user drags, swipes, flings, holds, or dismisses with a gesture — drawers, sheets, swipe-to-dismiss toasts and cards, drag-to-reorder, pull-to-refresh, hold-to-confirm — or when a gesture feels laggy, disconnected from the finger, jumps on release, or can't be caught mid-animation. Triggers on — gesture, drag, draggable, swipe, swipe to dismiss, fling, momentum…
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
# Gesture-Driven UI How to build gestures that feel physical. A gesture is direct manipulation: while the finger is down, the UI is the finger; the moment it lifts, physics takes over. Every rule below follows from that split. ## First decision: build it, or use a solution that exists? Doing a drawer gesture *right* means momentum-based dragging, overlay opacity matched to drag progress, velocity-aware dismissal, focus trapping, and Escape-to-close. That is weeks of edge cases, not an afternoon. **For a bottom sheet / drawer, default to [Vaul](https://vaul.emilkowal.ski/)** — it exists precisely because this is hard to hand-roll. Build the gesture yourself only when no library covers the interaction (custom swipe cards, bespoke drag interactions). Use the `pick-ui-library` skill when unsure. ## The two phases of every gesture Walk this split for any gesture you build. Mixing the phases up is the #1 cause of gestures that feel wrong. ``` Is the pointer currently down? ├── Yes → TRACK phase: position maps 1:1 to the pointer. │ No easing. No duration. No spring. The element IS the finger. └── No → RELEASE phase: physics finishes the motion. …
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How to install
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/gestures@sha256:3301a3528632e7b6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.5206a95, 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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Source
emilkowalski/skills · 54,854 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_buyucmqlhyshgtke GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/gestures GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3301a3528632e7b6e980e79f2708f2faa60340e833ce5816b5b081e8cfe83e7f
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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.