UI Skillbook — Start Here

You are an AI coding agent working on a UI task. UI Skillbook is a catalog of focused UI skills — don't load the whole catalog into context. Fetch only the smallest set of skills relevant to the task in front of you.

When to use

• At the start of any UI-related task, before deciding which specific skill(s) to pull in.
• Whenever you're unsure what UI Skillbook actually contains.

How the catalog is organized

• Every skill has a slug, a description, one or more categories (layout, typography, motion, interaction, accessibility, responsive, forms, navigation, visual, performance, design-systems, taste), and a list of compatible agents.
• Some skills are local — their full instructions are hosted on UI Skillbook and returned directly.
• Some skills are external — UI Skillbook only indexes their metadata; the full instructions live in a third-party repository. Fetch the linked raw URL yourself to read them.

Instructions

1. Get the machine-readable manifest: GET https://uiskillbook.com/skills/registry.json. It returns every skill's slug, description, categories, agents, external flag, and a content URL.
2. Filter the manifest by categories (and, if relevant, agents) to narrow down to a handful of candidates — don't fetch content for skills you haven't judged relevant from their description alone.
3. Fetch full instructions for a chosen skill at its content URL (https://uiskillbook.com/skills/<slug>/llms.txt). For local skills this returns the full skill markdown. For external skills it returns metadata plus a raw URL — fetch that URL next to get the actual instructions.
4. Apply the instructions to the current task. If they conflict with the product's existing, established design system, prefer the existing system and note the conflict rather than silently overriding it.

Examples

curl https://uiskillbook.com/skills/registry.json | jq '.registry[] | select(.categories | contains(["motion"]))'
curl https://uiskillbook.com/skills/pressed-button-feedback/llms.txt

Or via the CLI:

npx uiskillbook list --category motion
npx uiskillbook get pressed-button-feedback

Avoid

• Don't fetch every skill in the registry "just in case" — pick by category and description first.
• Don't treat an external skill's metadata description as the full instructions; it's a pointer, not the content.

References

• Registry manifest
• MCP server — list_skills / get_skill tools