Agent Skill

Appllama Usage skill

appllama-usageAppllama/appllama-skillsskills/appllama-usage/SKILL.md

Use the Appllama MCP (mcp.appllama.io) well — research real top-grossing mobile apps, their screens, flows, and UI elements, then build from what you learn. Load when the Appllama MCP is connected and the task involves building a mobile app or screen, researching app design patterns, studying onboarding/paywall/feature flows, improving an existing screen, or whenever an appllama_* / search_apps / list_app_screens tool is available. Covers the tool map, pagination, expiring media, and the full build-from-research playbooks.

2.9kMIT

always on

124 tokname + description

once used

1,406 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

413 KB

repo stars

2.9kGitHub

Install the Appllama Usage skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/Appllama/appllama-skills --skill appllama-usage

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Appllama/appllama-skills.git /tmp/appllama-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/appllama-skills/skills/appllama-usage ~/.claude/skills/appllama-usage

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

When	What loads	Cost
Every session	Name and description	124 tok
When the agent uses it	The SKILL.md instructions	1,406 tok
Only if opened	4 bundled files (13 KB)	varies

Until it is used, appllama-usage costs about 11× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 2 skills from Appllama/appllama-skills would load 308 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

Appllama Usage Skill
Ground rules (read first)
Tool map
The playbooks
Local reference boards

More skills from Appllama/appllama-skills

All skills in this repo

appllama-app-design-skillAppllama/appllama-skills
Build native-feeling, benchmark-quality mobile app screens (Expo / React Native). Use when designing or implementing any mobile UI — screens, flows, onboarding, paywalls, tab bars, sheets, settings, empty states — or when polishing motion, navigation, typography, dark mode, or perceived performance. Enforces Apple HIG fidelity, semantic colors, native controls, anti-slop discipline, navigation semantics (push vs replace, modal vs sheet vs overlay, the one-way doors where back must not exist), purposeful Reanimated motion, a full-motion simulator-verified iteration loop, and a study-real-apps-first workflow (pairs with the Appllama MCP). Trigger on "build a screen", "make this screen better", "design the onboarding", "wire up this flow", "polish the UI", "make it feel native", or any mobile design/implementation task.
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