Podo Design Agent Skills - Setup Guide¶

Source: podo/design-agent-skills (8⭐, MIT, created May 2026, pushed Aug 31, 2026) Skill: podo/design-agent-skills (157 skills in repo; 150 indexed on skills.sh) Combined Installs: 17,302 across indexed skills (Sep 15, 2026); 149 skills at 100+ Category: Design / UI Craft Quality Tier: 🟡 Unverified (no skills.sh Trust Hub / Socket / Snyk verdicts published - verified Sep 15, 2026)

A curated design-skill catalog with a single entry point. Instead of installing design skills one publisher at a time, npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills gives agents a profile-based picker (Picks / Essentials / All) over a 151-skill library spanning UI craft, motion, Figma workflows, accessibility, data viz, presentations, PM tools, content design, and user research. Install is agent-agnostic: the interactive CLI auto-detects 30+ installed agents (vercel-labs/skills mechanism) and symlinks one canonical skill store into every agent directory.

Redistribution disclosure: most skills in the catalog are repackaged from upstream publishers - emilkowalski (design philosophy), anthropics (frontend design), figma-official, vercel, sleek (mobile app design), nexu-io/open-design (design-review), mastepanoski, addyosmani (quality patterns), and others. Podo curates and redistributes; upstream repos remain canonical. Treat this as a convenience layer, not the origin.

Installation¶

# Interactive picker (arrow-key navigation, no flags) - verified live Sep 15: "Found 157 skills"
npx design-agent-skills

# Direct profile installs
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --picks -g       # 24 best-in-class skills
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --essentials -g  # ~92 skills, full coverage
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --all -g         # all 151 (default when no flag)

# Install the catalog entry point for browsing/selective use
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills

Prerequisites¶

Requirement	Details
Node.js 18+	`npx skills` / `npx design-agent-skills` requirement
Per-skill tooling	figma-official-skills needs a Figma account + Figma MCP; slidev-skill needs Slidev; gsap/framer-motion skills need those libraries
No API keys	Most skills are reference/playbook skills - no keys required

Roster - Selected 100+ Install Skills¶

Skill	Installs	Domain
distinctive-frontend	434	Distinctive frontend design
taste-skill	163	Design taste calibration
color-expert / emilkowalski-skill	146 / 146	Color systems; Emil Kowalski design philosophy
ui-ux-pro-max	145	UI/UX patterns
apple-hig-skills	143	Apple Human Interface Guidelines
anthropics-skills	141	Anthropic frontend design
ux-writing-skill	140	UX copy
interaction-design	139	Interaction patterns
gsap-skills / framer-motion-skills	139 / 136	Animation libraries
excalidraw-diagram	137	Diagramming
shadcn-ui	136	shadcn/ui components
email-html-mjml	135	Email HTML/MJML
deanpeters-pm-skills	135	PM workflows
antvis-chart-skills	134	Data viz (AntV)
figma-official-skills	134	Figma workflows
material-3-skill	132	Material 3
fixing-accessibility / wcag-ai-skill	131 / 125	Accessibility
remotion	131	Remotion video
impeccable	131	Design polish
user-research-cookiy	129	User research
textual-tui-skill / tui-design-skill	128 / 111	Terminal UI design
slidev-skill	128	Presentation decks
awesome-design-skills	128	Curated design references
copywriting-skill	120	Copywriting
mobile-app-design / mobile-app-ui-design	120 / 119	Mobile design
bencium-ux-designer	119	UX process
design-review-garrytan	118	Design review (repackaged nexu-io/open-design)
animate-skill / motion-catalogue / css-animation-skill	118 / 118 / 113	Motion
brand-design-md	118	Brand design
sleek-design-mobile-apps	117	Sleek mobile design (repackaged)
addyosmani-quality	115	Quality patterns
cloudflare-web-perf	115	Web performance
dark-pattern-audit	114	Ethics / dark-pattern audit
vercel-skills	113	Vercel skills (repackaged)
p5js-hermes	112	p5.js creative coding (Hermes-named)
...and 100+ more	100-163	Design tokens, sprints, briefs, governance, PM, research

Full inventory: 150 skills indexed (Sep 15, 2026 snapshot), 149 at 100+ installs, 17,302 combined.

CorpusIQ Use Cases¶

Use Case	How
UI template change requests	ui-ux-pro-max + taste-skill for internal screenshot-based template changes
Docs & marketing design	email-html-mjml for campaign emails; slidev-skill for investor/partner decks
Accessibility pass	fixing-accessibility + wcag-ai-skill alongside the AccessLint suite
Animation/motion quality	gsap-skills + framer-motion-skills for docs interactive elements and product motion
Data viz for reports	antvis-chart-skills for analytics and recap visuals

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

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Limitations / Verification¶

Redistribution catalog: upstream repos are canonical; verify against the upstream for critical deliverables
8⭐ repo, no skills.sh security audits published - review skills before relying on them for production work
Verify: npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --list shows "Found 157 skills"

Security¶

No skills.sh security audits published (verified Sep 15, 2026 - the publisher page renders no audit verdicts). Treat as unverified until reviewed:

Audit	Verdict
Gen Agent Trust Hub	Not published
Socket	Not published
Snyk	Not published

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