About
A shelf with an editor, not a ranking.
skill.appokk is a small collection of agent skill files worth installing. Each one is read the way a book review is written: what it is, why it matters, what is inside, and where it stops working.
What this is
Agent skills are folders of instructions that an AI coding agent loads when a task matches them. Most collections are written in a weekend, install nothing, and repeat advice from the same five blog posts. This site keeps the other kind: skill files with a point of view, traceable to work someone shipped.
It is the sibling of appokk.com, the tools directory. Same editor, same standard of evidence, different shelf.
How a collection gets in
- It has to be read. Not skimmed for a README. Every review here covers all of the skills inside, grouped by the job they do, with the parts that matter called out.
- It has to decide something. Concrete rules, numbers, refusals. "Be intentional with motion" does not count; "no animation on any control used more than a hundred times a day, ever" does.
- It has to survive contact. The review tries the skills against real work: a component, a pull request, a page that felt wrong. If the advice only works in a demo, that gets said.
- It has to know its edges. A good collection is honest that it is about motion, or React, or Swift. A collection that claims everything gets skipped.
What does not get in
Sponsored slots. Paid placement. Affiliate links. Auto-generated prompt packs. "Top 100 skills" listicles with no reviews behind them. Repositories uploaded to farm installs and never updated. And anything that cannot answer one question: what does this tell an agent that a competent engineer would not already do?
How the reviews age
Agent skills are version-sensitive: a file that names a library version will drift. Every review carries the date it was read, and a review is reopened when an entry changes materially or when the skills it cites stop matching the code they describe. Corrections are noted, not quietly swallowed.
Disclosure. Links are plain links. There is no affiliate parameter on any of them, no analytics script watching what you click, and no cookie banner because there are no cookies. Nothing on this site is paid for.
Suggest a skill
If you built a collection, or found one that deserves the read, email hello@appokk.com with:
- the repository link;
- one sentence on what it gets right that others do not;
- your relationship to it, if any — author, user, or bystander.
Suggestions are free. Being included is not for sale. Replies may take a while; everything gets read.
Corrections
Wrong version number, a skill that was renamed, a claim that aged badly — email the same address and it gets fixed, with the date on the review bumped. Corrections are free and always will be.
Who is behind it
skill.appokk is a side project of the small team behind appokk.com and ChinaTravelDay. One editor reads the skills; the same editor writes them up.