animate
animate is an agent skill published by emilkowalski, listed under writing code. It lives in the emilkowalski/skills repository, which has 49,715 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
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.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads emilkowalski/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add emilkowalski/skills
Maintenance
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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| animate (this page) | emilkowalski | Build an animation from scratch, making the decisions in the order that determines whether it feels right — s… | 49,715 | 2026-10-11 |
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Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about animate
- What does animate do?
- 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.
- How do I install animate?
- Run npx skills add emilkowalski/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes animate?
- emilkowalski.
- Is animate maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 49,715 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-11. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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