animate-skill

Catalogue stub — full skill: delphi-ai/animate-skill

Decision tree

1. Is the full skill already installed? Upstream names this skill animate, so it installs next to this pointer (the pointer is not replaced).
   • Global: f=~/.agents/skills/animate/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"
   • Project: f=.agents/skills/animate/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"
   • installed → the skill is installed as animate, invoke it and proceed
   • pointer → go to step 2

2. Detect scope, then install:

   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/animate-skill ] && echo "global" || echo "project"

   Global:

   npx skills add delphi-ai/animate-skill --skill animate -g -y

   Project:

   npx skills add delphi-ai/animate-skill --skill animate -y

   Claude Code: send a command as a chat message starting with ! to run it without leaving the conversation.

Heads-up

• License: no LICENSE file
• Name collision: animate is also written by emilkowalski-skill (its install or its catalogue pointer); installing both overwrites the earlier one.

Invoke after install

• Skill name: animate
• Trigger phrases: "animate", "hover animation", "toast animation", "text reveal", "animate-skill"

What it does

Emil Kowalski-inspired animation patterns for Next.js and React, based on his "Animations on the Web" course. Ships an easing and duration cheat sheet, reference notes (CSS animations, Framer Motion, easing and timing, performance and accessibility) and working .tsx examples: hover micro-interactions, toast stacking, text reveals, shared-layout tab indicators, animated height and modal transitions. Design philosophy centres on motion that feels inevitable and purposeful rather than decorative: every animation should serve a clear communicative function.

When NOT to use

• Complex timeline orchestration with multiple sequenced steps (use gsap-skills)
• Video or Lottie output (use wiggle-claude-skill)