Agent skill

App Authoring

by OtoDock in OtoDock/oto-dock

Authoring contracts for interactive artifacts, app dashboards, and Dock panels — displayui backchannel and theme events, pinapp action buttons (firetask / sendprompt / mcptool / platform, per-action…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install App Authoring

skills CLI
$ npx skills add OtoDock/oto-dock --skill app-authoring -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install OtoDock/oto-dock app-authoring --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/mcps/custom/display-mcp/skills/app-authoring .claude/skills/app-authoring && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
app-authoring
GitHub stars
190
Token cost
~23k tokens
SKILL.md length
12,675 words
Files
7
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Authoring contracts for interactive artifacts, app dashboards, and Dock panels — displayui backchannel and theme events, pinapp action buttons (firetask / sendprompt / mcptool / platform, per-action…

  • Updating a displayui artifact
  • SKILL.md covers display_ui authoring, The bar: an app people want to…, Pinned apps (pin_app /… and Live apps (app_state /…, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs TypeScript scripts from its folder; calls curl; needs OTODOCK_APP_TOKEN and OTODOCK_STEP_TOKEN
  • Tasks that involve MCP servers

What it does

App Authoring is an agent skill from OtoDock/oto-dock. Authoring contracts for interactive artifacts, app dashboards, and Dock panels — displayui backchannel and theme events, pinapp action buttons (firetask / sendprompt / mcptool / platform, per-action minrole), live data panels, the platform catalog (otodock.feed / otodock.platform), live apps (appstate / apppush / openapp), releases and rollbackapp, what a shared app or link viewer sees, scoped dashboards, file pins, and apps with a server — the folder contract, handlers the platform wakes, bindings between apps…

Its SKILL.md is about 23k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 13 other files (for example `templates/booking/app.json`, `templates/booking/server/index.ts` and `templates/kanban/app.json`).

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering MCP servers. The repository describes itself as: The agentic company OS. The brains of your company, built on Claude Code and Codex, working on your Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions.

When your agent uses it

  • Updating a displayui artifact
  • Tasks that involve MCP servers

Example prompts

  • “/app-authoring”

Requirements

  • Node.js

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5308f5a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships script files (TypeScript), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • OTODOCK_APP_TOKEN
    • OTODOCK_STEP_TOKEN
    • STRIPE_SECRET_KEY
    • STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET
    • OTODOCK_APP_PUBLIC_KEY
    • PROXY_API_KEY
    • GH_TOKEN
    • SMTP_PASSWORD

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

App Authoring loads about 23k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 166 tokens; SKILL.md has 12,675 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~166
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~23k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 12,675 words (~22,593 tokens).

“The display-tools skill covers WHEN to reach for these surfaces; this one is the full authoring reference. Everything here renders in the same sandboxed, theme-matched frame (token vars, primitives, and kit script tags are listed on the display_ui tool itself).”

— opening of SKILL.md by OtoDock, Custom licence
name
app-authoring

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files in mcps/custom/display-mcp/skills/app-authoring of OtoDock/oto-dock.

  • SKILL.md
  • templates/booking/app.json
  • templates/booking/client/index.html
  • templates/booking/server/index.ts
  • templates/kanban/app.json
  • templates/kanban/client/index.html
  • templates/kanban/server/index.ts

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5308f5a

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Questions about App Authoring

What does App Authoring do?

Authoring contracts for interactive artifacts, app dashboards, and Dock panels — displayui backchannel and theme events, pinapp action buttons (firetask / sendprompt / mcptool / platform, per-action…. App Authoring is an agent skill from OtoDock/oto-dock.

When should I use App Authoring?

App Authoring fits situations like: updating a displayui artifact; tasks that involve MCP servers.

How do I install App Authoring in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add OtoDock/oto-dock --skill app-authoring -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (mcps/custom/display-mcp/skills/app-authoring in OtoDock/oto-dock) into .claude/skills/app-authoring in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install App Authoring in Codex?

Run `npx skills add OtoDock/oto-dock --skill app-authoring -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (mcps/custom/display-mcp/skills/app-authoring in OtoDock/oto-dock) into .agents/skills/app-authoring in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use App Authoring in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add OtoDock/oto-dock --skill app-authoring -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/app-authoring, .gemini/skills/app-authoring, .github/skills/app-authoring and .opencode/skills/app-authoring in your project.

What does App Authoring need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, App Authoring needs TypeScript for the scripts in its folder, the command-line tools its instructions call (curl) and credentials named OTODOCK_APP_TOKEN, OTODOCK_STEP_TOKEN, STRIPE_SECRET_KEY and STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET. Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does App Authoring access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is App Authoring safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does App Authoring use?

App Authoring has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does App Authoring use?

About 23k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 90k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to App Authoring?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with App Authoring: Agent Harness Fault Injection (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), AWS Agentic AI (zxkane/aws-skills, 367 stars), Openai Docs (aafqaq/codex-lb-enhanced, 102 stars) and Claude Docs Consultant (centminmod/my-claude-code-setup, 2.7k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains App Authoring?

OtoDock (a GitHub organization) maintains it in OtoDock/oto-dock, which has 190 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: OtoDock/oto-dock on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.