Issue 01 / 8 November 2026
A shelf, not a search index. Each collection here was read end to end, tried against real work, and written up with the parts that hold up — and the parts that do not.
Why this one is first
Skills for Designers and Engineers is 17 folders of Markdown — no code at all — by Emil Kowalski, a design engineer who spent years at Vercel and Linear and wrote two of the React libraries a lot of teams already ship (Sonner, Vaul). The files give an agent the calls he makes about motion: what should not animate at all, which curve belongs on an entrance, when a spring should bounce and how far.
The reason it earns the first slot is not the install count. It is that the strongest files are subtractive. One tells the agent that a control used a hundred times a day should never animate, ever. Another exists to delete motion that cannot defend itself. A third lets the agent answer a request by writing zero lines of code — and calls that a success.
That is the bias worth curating for. Agents are already fluent at producing more. A skill that knows when to stop is rarer, and worth more.
The best file in the set is the one that tells the agent to write nothing at all.
Every entry is read against the same three questions. Most collections fail the first one.
A skill that explains what good design looks like is a blog post. A skill that says no animation on any control used more than a hundred times a day, ease-out on entrances, here is the curve, here is the duration — is a tool.
The rules have to trace back to interfaces someone shipped, not to a summary of someone else's essay. Craft claims are only useful if they were expensive to learn.
A skill that only generates is a shortcut. A skill that refuses — deletes, blocks, reduces, reports no findings — is judgement. That is the part of taste an agent cannot infer.
Everything published so far. The shelf grows when a collection earns its sentence, not when a README arrives.
Send the repository and one sentence on what it gets right. It gets read, not scraped.