manim SKILL.md skillA
manim from calebnewtonusc/chewbacca is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add calebnewtonusc/chewbacca/manim@git:20260929.1523dc5Pins git:20260929.1523dc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- calebnewtonusc/chewbacca
- Path
skills/manim/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260929.1523dc5, committed Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,988 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Make an animated math or explainer video with Manim Community (ManimCE), the 3Blue1Brown-style engine. Use when the user asks for a manim video, a 3b1b-style animation, an animated proof, an explainer with graphs and equations, a funny math video about a friend, or links github.com/ManimCommunity/manim or github.com/3b1b/manim. Also use when a manim render fails, looks wrong, or text overlaps.
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
# Manim videos
Default to **Manim Community** (`pip install manim`), even when the user links
`3b1b/manim`. On 2026-09-29 a video was started on 3b1b's `manimgl`, and the
user switched it to ManimCE mid-render. ManimCE is the maintained, documented
one, and its API is what every example online uses.
## Setup that works on this Mac
Python 3.14 is the system default and manim's wheels lag behind it. Use a
project venv on 3.13:
```bash
uv venv --python 3.13 .venv
uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python manim
.venv/bin/manim -ql --disable_caching scene.py SceneName # draft, 480p15
.venv/bin/manim -qh --disable_caching scene.py SceneName # final, 1080p60
```
Output lands at `media/videos/<file>/<quality>/<Scene>.mp4`. Gitignore
`media/` and `.venv/`, then copy the final mp4 to the repo root.
**There is no LaTeX on this machine.** Anything built on `Tex`/`MathTex`
crashes: `MathTex`, `Tex`, `DecimalNumber`, `Integer`, `Variable`, and axis
`add_coordinates()` / `include_numbers`. Use `Text` for every label. For a
counting number, redraw text:
```python
score = ValueTracker(0)
number = always_redraw(lambda: Text(f"{int(score.get_value()):,}", font_size=96))
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add calebnewtonusc/chewbacca/manim@sha256:96be8752b826d7b9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.1523dc5, 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_clmzvxxd65wdupjr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3988 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 prompt-injection phrasing
- 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
Source
calebnewtonusc/chewbacca · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_clmzvxxd65wdupjr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=calebnewtonusc/chewbacca/manim GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/96be8752b826d7b905d5ad4da8110a27f06dfa28d91a2f01dcceaa9b6af54117
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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