Skill

/animate

Motion design pass — adds purposeful animations or removes excessive ones, respecting MOTION_INTENSITY and the project's animation stack. Use when the user asks to add animation, "make it feel smoother", fix janky transitions, or trim motion that's distracting. Invoke when the

One skill from ui-craft.

shell

$ npx -y skills add educlopez/ui-craft --skill animate --agent claude-code

Installs just this skill. Get the whole plugin for auto-invocation.

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
Slash command/animate

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Motion design pass — adds purposeful animations or removes excessive ones, respecting MOTION_INTENSITY and the project's animation stack. Use when the user asks to add animation, "make it feel smoother", fix janky transitions, or trim motion that's distracting. Invoke when the

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SKILL.md

animate.SKILL.md

---
name: animate
description: "Motion design pass — adds purposeful animations or removes excessive ones, respecting MOTION_INTENSITY and the project's animation stack. Use when the user asks to add animation, "make it feel smoother", fix janky transitions, or trim motion that's distracting. Invoke when the user asks for animate on their UI, or mentions 'animate' alongside design / UI / frontend work."
---

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**Context:** this sub-skill is one lens of the broader `ui-craft` skill. If the `ui-craft` skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.

Add or fix animations in the target the user described. Load the `ui-craft` skill.

**Step 1 — Decision Ladder**: run the Decision Ladder from `references/motion.md` first. Anything that fails it gets removed, not improved.

**Step 2 — Pick the library**:

- If user opted into a stack during Discovery → read `references/stack.md`. Use the matching section (Motion, GSAP, or Three.js). Never mix libraries on the same property.
- Otherwise → CSS transitions / `@keyframes` / `animation-timeline: view()` only.

**Step 3 — Apply motion budget**:

| Element | Budget |
|---|---|
| Color/opacity | 100-150ms |
| Small UI (tooltips, dropdowns) | 150-200ms |
| Medium UI (modals, panels) | 200-300ms |