Oil UI: Open-Source Skill Pushes AI Agents' Interface Design to the Limit
algo_diver · x · 2026-10-07
- Oil UI is a Skill (772 GitHub stars) that gives AI agents a structured interface-design workflow for websites, apps, dashboards and components.
- Method: identify the product category and study 2-3 distinctive peers; translate vague goals like "clean/premium" into concrete decisions on type, whitespace and color; ensure competing design directions differ in at least three of layout/type/color/hero visual.
- Workflow: generate genuinely different mockups side by side, let the user pick and critique, refine, then screenshot-check at desktop and mobile sizes and run a subtraction pass.
- Install with npx skills add oil-oil/oil-ui; a paid Oil UI Pro adds effects and legacy-project refactoring.
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