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emil-design-eng from tamnguyendinh/anvien is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add tamnguyendinh/anvien/emil-design-eng@git:20260714.847362c

Pins git:20260714.847362c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: tamnguyendinh/anvien
Path: internal/aicontext/skills/UI-animation-design/emil-design-eng/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260714.847362c, committed Jul 14, 2026
Size: 27,335 bytes
Repository stars: 12
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 tamnguyendinh/anvien/emil-design-eng@sha256:433b5a239cda18e0

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.847362c, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_gq44re65hguqphlx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gq44re65hguqphlx)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 14, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260714.847362c latest	2026-07-14	847362c	27,335 B	A	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 (27335 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

tamnguyendinh/anvien · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gq44re65hguqphlx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tamnguyendinh/anvien/emil-design-eng
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/433b5a239cda18e0576e4e558532e7e53512e21fafe5b85db4894c28ec399b72

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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