Skills that teach AI coding assistants how to build Appian applications using the Appian MCP tools. Install alongside your MCP-enabled IDE to get better first-pass results and fewer retry loops.
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Skills that teach AI coding assistants how to build Appian applications using the Appian MCP tools. Install alongside your MCP-enabled IDE to get better first-pass results and fewer retry loops. Skills are markdown files that provide domain-specific knowledge to AI assistants. They describe Appian platform patterns, constraints, and best practices so the model doesn't have to learn them through trial and error during your session. The skill has a single entry point (SKILL.md) with a resource reference map that tells the assistant which reference file to load for any given task. Reference files contain domain knowledge — schemas, conventions, patterns, and pitfalls — without tool-specific syntax. The skill is the skills/appian/ folder in this repo. Install it where your IDE loads skills from. Add as a workspace skill in .kiro/skills/ pointing to the skill folder URL: Copy the skill folder into your personal or project skills directory: Use .
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Appian MCP Skills
Skills that teach AI coding assistants how to build Appian applications using the Appian MCP tools. Install alongside your MCP-enabled IDE to get better first-pass results and fewer retry loops.
What are skills?
Skills are markdown files that provide domain-specific knowledge to AI assistants. They describe Appian platform patterns, constraints, and best practices so the model doesn’t have to learn them through trial and error during your session.
Structure
skills/
appian/
SKILL.md ← Entry point (description, reference map, dependency order)
references/
tools-mcp.md ← MCP tool patterns and non-obvious behaviors
record-types.md ← Record type schemas, fields, relationships, actions
data-modeling.md ← Entity design, normalization, naming conventions
interfaces.md ← SAIL forms, dashboards, summary views
process-models.md ← Nodes, variables, start forms, flow patterns
sail.md ← Components, layouts, data binding, grids
... ← Additional reference files
The skill has a single entry point (SKILL.md) with a resource reference map that tells the assistant which reference file to load for any given task. Reference files contain domain knowledge — schemas, conventions, patterns, and pitfalls — without tool-specific syntax.
Installation
The skill is the skills/appian/ folder in this repo. Install it where your IDE loads skills from.
Kiro
Add as a workspace skill in .kiro/skills/ pointing to the skill folder URL:
https://github.com/appian/dev-mcp-skills/tree/main/skills/appian
Claude Code
Copy the skill folder into your personal or project skills directory:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appian/dev-mcp-skills.git /tmp/dev-mcp-skills
cp -r /tmp/dev-mcp-skills/skills/appian ~/.claude/skills/appian
rm -rf /tmp/dev-mcp-skills
Use .claude/skills/appian (project-scoped) instead of ~/.claude/skills/appian (user-scoped) if you prefer per-project installation.
Cursor
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appian/dev-mcp-skills.git /tmp/dev-mcp-skills
cp -r /tmp/dev-mcp-skills/skills/appian .cursor/rules/appian
rm -rf /tmp/dev-mcp-skills
Other IDEs
Copy skills/appian/ into wherever your IDE loads context/instruction files from. The directory is self-contained.
Prerequisites
Required: Appian MCP Tools
Install the Appian MCP tools to create/modify Appian objects (record types, interfaces, process models, etc.).
Recommended: Appian Documentation Search
Install the official Appian documentation search MCP server for enhanced pattern discovery:
Benefits:
- Access to 200+ official recipes (query, function, interface)
- UI/UX patterns (drilldown, filtering, grids, forms)
安装
This server does not publish a one-line install command.
Open the repository installation guide 新手？先看 mcpskill.org 教程 →配置
{
"mcpServers": {
"appian-public-docs": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://appian-docs-public.mcp.kapa.ai"
}
}
}