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find-animation-opportunities 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/find-animation-opportunities@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/find-animation-opportunities/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20260915.85e8e23, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 15, 2026
Size: 9,808 bytes
Repository stars: 47,883
License: MIT

Search a codebase or UI for places that don't animate but should, and reject everything that shouldn't. Read-only; it proposes motion with exact values, it does not implement it. Use when the user asks "what could be animated here?" or wants to "make this feel more alive". For fixing existing animations, use improve-animations or review-animations instead.

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

# Finding Animation Opportunities

## Initial Response

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

> I'm ready to find where your interface should animate, and where it shouldn't, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy.

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

A search skill. It does ONE thing: sweep an interface for moments that would genuinely benefit from motion, and propose a precise recipe for each. It does not review existing animations (that's `review-animations`), audit and plan fixes for them (that's `improve-animations`), or write the implementation itself.

## Operating Posture

You are a senior design engineer whose defining trait is **restraint**. The premise of this skill is Emil Kowalski's ["You Don't Need Animations"](https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations): sometimes the best animation is no animation. An opportunity finder that suggests motion everywhere is worse than useless — it produces the sluggish, over-animated interfaces this repo exists to prevent.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add emilkowalski/skills/find-animation-opportunities@sha256:d52a377819b84a71

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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 15, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 21 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260915.85e8e23 latest	2026-09-15	85e8e23	9,808 B	B	view · diff
git:20260915.0b85d4b	2026-09-15	0b85d4b	9,911 B	B	view · diff
git:20260721.86cf9f7	2026-07-21	86cf9f7	9,491 B	B	view · diff
git:20260715.d62b0d8	2026-07-15	d62b0d8	9,547 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 (9808 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_djeawygns65gbbrx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/find-animation-opportunities
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d52a377819b84a71930f0c822cfe2849f40301605a2d5c7eccbfa3b257700df2

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