Emil Kowalski Skills
Animation and interface craft from the engineer behind Linear's motion.
About
A skill collection from Emil Kowalski (Vercel, Linear) focused on the details that make interfaces feel expensive: correct easing curves, composite-only animation properties, purposeful motion, and strict reviews of existing animation code. The flagship emil-design-eng skill covers animation plus design advice, alongside specialists for building animations from scratch, auditing codebases, fixing dropped frames, and Apple-style interaction design. Install everything with npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills. These encode one person's hard-won taste — excellent for motion quality, narrower than full design-system skills for layout and branding.
What it can do
- Animation decision-making; motion code review and audits; performance debugging for animations; Apple-style interaction guidance; UI polish rules.
Setup
npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills — installs all skills in the repo.
Prerequisites
An agent that supports the Agent Skills format.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Repo read live: 45,799 stars, MIT, install command verbatim from README.; Author background (Vercel, Linear) and animation-focused skill set confirmed.; Narrower than full design-system skills — captured as scope limitation..
★ 45,799 GitHub stars
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