factory-animation SKILL.md skillA
factory-animation from nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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Motion discipline distilled across builds. Attention as a fixed per-viewport budget, figure/ground separation (calm the ground, load motion into the figure), one focal point of motion per screen, diegetic-over-decorative test, trigger-on-intent-then-settle over perpetual loops, and the prefers-reduced-motion fallback. Recipe pairs Astro with a Remotion video kit (rendered assets in public/). Read whenever you add motion to a marketing surface or any page where movement competes with reading.…
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What the file says
# Factory animation
Each section leads with **Principle** (one sentence, stack-agnostic), then **Why** (constraint → option → tradeoff), then **Recipe** (the Astro + Remotion shape we use), and **Failure mode** when there's one to name.
Motion is the most expensive ink on the page. `factory-design` sets the static vocabulary; this skill governs what's allowed to move on top of it. The default answer is "almost nothing" — and that's a feature.
## Attention is a fixed budget per viewport
**Principle.** Every viewport hands the eye one budget of attention; each moving or high-contrast element draws against it, and decorative motion draws without informing.
**Why.** The eye doesn't have a separate fund for "tasteful" animation — a shifting gradient and the headline you actually want read are competing for the same fixed pool. Designers reason about each animation in isolation ("this glow is subtle, this loop is slow") and never sum the bill, so a page that's calm element-by-element is noisy in aggregate. The discipline is to treat the budget as scarce: spend it where it informs, and treat every decorative draw as a debit against the thing you wanted seen.
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How to install
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Source
nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
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