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Oil UI: three real design directions, side by side

A UI design skill that has your agent build a few truly different looks for a site or app, lay them out on one comparison page for you to pick from, then polish the winner against real desktop and mobile screenshots.

In short: A UI design skill that has your agent build a few truly different looks for a site or app, lay them out on one comparison page for you to pick from, then polish the winner against real desktop and mobile screenshots. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and want help with seo & web.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
CursorFree tier + paidcursor.com
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 1.9koil-oil/oil-ui
Oil UI: three real design directions, side by side

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Image from the oil-oil/oil-ui READMEImage from the oil-oil/oil-ui README

Images from the project README on GitHub.

Try it in 60 seconds

npx skills add oil-oil/oil-ui

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

A UI design skill that has your agent build a few truly different looks for a site or app, lay them out on one comparison page for you to pick from, then polish the winner against real desktop and mobile screenshots.

Oil UI is an interface design skill for AI agents. It explores a few genuinely different design directions side by side, lets you choose one, then refines it against real screenshots. It works for websites, apps,…

Short excerpt from the README of oil-oil/oil-ui. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

How it designsInstallationUsageBuilt-in style comparison pageOpen source and ProVersion checksUse withLicense

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and read the README.
  2. Run npx skills add oil-oil/oil-ui (Python 3 is needed for its update check).
  3. Ask: "use oil-ui to explore three design directions for my booking page and build pages I can preview".
  4. Pick one on the comparison page, say what you like and dislike, and let it refine that one.

Watch out for

It checks online for a newer version at most every 10 minutes (it uploads nothing; set OIL_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1 to turn it off). Do not install it next to Oil UI Pro, as they compete for the same requests. Works best with a model that can see screenshots.

Sources & credit

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