# app-builder

This skill turns a natural-language request into an application plan, selects a stack, and directs agent work. It fits new full-stack projects.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code · 539 installs
- Author: davila7
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/app-builder
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/app-builder

## What it does

app-builder takes a product request and works out the project category, technology choices, and file structure. Its templates cover web apps with Next.js or Nuxt, APIs with Express or FastAPI, mobile builds, desktop apps, Chrome extensions, CLI tools, and Turborepo monorepos.

The skill follows a selective-reading map, so it loads the project guidance related to the current task instead of every file. It can coordinate `project-planner`, `frontend-specialist`, `backend-specialist`, `database-architect`, and `devops-engineer`; its listed tools are `Read`, `Write`, `Edit`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`, and `Agent`. That makes it a project-level orchestrator rather than a single feature recipe.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **claude-code-templates**
```bash
npx claude-code-templates@latest --skill business-marketing/app-builder
```

2. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill app-builder -a claude-code
```

3. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/app-builder/

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install davila7/claude-code-templates app-builder
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --path cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/app-builder
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/app-builder

## When to use it
- classify a new application
- choose a matching technology stack
- scaffold a project from a template
- split implementation into dependent tasks
- coordinate specialist agents

## Example prompts
- Build a full-stack photo-sharing app with likes and user profiles.
- Create a REST API with FastAPI and lay out the project files.
- Extend the current app with a profile page and its API routes.

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