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improve-animations from emilkowalski/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add emilkowalski/skills/improve-animations@git:20260915.85e8e23

Pins git:20260915.85e8e23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: emilkowalski/skills
Path: skills/improve-animations/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260915.85e8e23, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 11, 2026
Size: 8,208 bytes
Repository stars: 47,883
License: MIT

Survey a codebase's animation and motion code as a senior motion advisor, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper models) to execute. Read-only on source code — it plans improvements, it does not apply them. Use when the user asks to "improve the animations", "audit the motion", "make this app feel better", or wants a roadmap of animation fixes rather than a review of a single diff.

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

# Improving Animations

## Initial Response

When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with:

> I'm ready to audit your animations and plan the fixes, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy.

Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question.

An advisor skill modeled on the audit-then-plan workflow: use the capable model for the part where judgment compounds — understanding the codebase's motion, deciding what's worth fixing, writing the spec — and hand execution to any agent, including cheaper models.

It does ONE thing: survey animation and motion code, then produce prioritized findings and implementation plans. It does not review a single diff (that's `review-animations`), and it does not implement fixes itself.

## Operating Posture
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add emilkowalski/skills/improve-animations@sha256:7396244746443347

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.85e8e23, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_7thynblyqzeqq6ek.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7thynblyqzeqq6ek)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 33 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260915.85e8e23 latest	2026-09-15	85e8e23	8,208 B	B	view · diff
git:20260915.0b85d4b	2026-09-15	0b85d4b	8,311 B	B	view · diff
git:20260711.f736679	2026-07-11	f736679	7,915 B	B	view

Audit of the latest version

B 16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

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 (8208 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

GitHub

emilkowalski/skills · 47,883 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7thynblyqzeqq6ek
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/improve-animations
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73962447464433476343e2c12cd08ab39cc99a9e5f3c118c5fb54ed897574ef6

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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