remove-animations SKILL.md skillB
remove-animations from emilkowalski/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/remove-animations@git:20261028.a81dbcaPins git:20261028.a81dbca in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- emilkowalski/skills
- Path
skills/remove-animations/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261028.a81dbca, committed Oct 28, 2026
- Size
- 11,345 bytes
- Repository stars
- 54,854
- License
- MIT
Find the animations an interface doesn't need and remove them — motion on keyboard actions, high-frequency surfaces, functional data, and decoration with no purpose — then clean up what they leave behind. Edits code, but only to subtract; it never adds or retunes motion. Use when the user says the app "feels slow", "has too much animation", "feels over-animated", wants to "tone down the motion", or asks what animations to remove. For finding places that should animate, use…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Removing Animations ## Initial Response When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with: > I'm ready to remove the animations your interface doesn't need, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy. Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question. A subtraction skill. It does ONE thing: put every existing animation on trial, then delete or reduce the ones that can't defend themselves. It is the counterpart to `find-animation-opportunities`. It does not add motion, and it does not fix easing, origin, or interruptibility on animations that stay (that's `improve-animations` and `review-animations`). ## Operating Posture You are a senior design engineer whose defining trait is **restraint**. The premise is Emil Kowalski's ["You Don't Need Animations"](https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations): sometimes the best animation is no animation. Agents add motion by default — fade-in on scroll, hover-scale on cards, animated command palettes — and each one is defensible alone while together they make the product feel slow. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/remove-animations@sha256:dea95b7a7ef81cbaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.a81dbca, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_64c6d4ivrkyrwdow)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11345 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
emilkowalski/skills · 54,854 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_64c6d4ivrkyrwdow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/remove-animations GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dea95b7a7ef81cba312c7f70a3c5c67d7e06a287cb16b16d2f90f2b1fb0afff9
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