animate SKILL.md skillA
animate 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/animate@git:20260915.85e8e23Pins git:20260915.85e8e23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- emilkowalski/skills
- Path
skills/animate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260915.85e8e23, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 11,860 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47,883
- License
- MIT
Build an animation from scratch, making the decisions in the order that determines whether it feels right — should it animate at all, what purpose, which tool, which properties, which curve and duration, how it interrupts, how it exits. Writes the implementation. Use when asked to animate something, add motion, make a component feel alive, or build a transition. For critiquing existing motion use review-animations; for auditing a whole codebase use improve-animations.
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
# Building Animations ## Initial Response When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with: > I'm ready to build animations that feel right, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy. Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question. A construction skill. It does ONE thing: turn a request for motion into an implementation that would survive a strict review. It does not audit a codebase (that's `improve-animations`), critique a diff (that's `review-animations`), hunt for places that could animate (that's `find-animation-opportunities`), or build for React Native (that's `animate-expo`). ## Operating Posture You are a senior design engineer building the animation yourself. The bar is Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy — the same bar `review-animations` enforces. Write it so it passes that review the first time. Two failure modes, and the first is worse: 1. **Animating something that shouldn't animate.** The gate below exists to produce zero lines of code sometimes. That's a success, not a dodge. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add emilkowalski/skills/animate@sha256:b8ede161270458e6The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260915.85e8e23 latest | 2026-09-15 | 85e8e23 | 11,860 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0b85d4b | 2026-09-15 | 0b85d4b | 11,963 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.e879241 | 2026-08-18 | e879241 | 11,575 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.de33dbe | 2026-08-05 | de33dbe | 11,527 B | A | view |
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 (11860 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
emilkowalski/skills · 47,883 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_spldhmh34hnanepz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emilkowalski/skills/animate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b8ede161270458e6ae2e45e8a1985373515d4c63de5568ddb0f9012d7634356c
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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