Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
improve-animations
Agent skill fromemilkowalski/skills
Survey a codebase's animation and motion code as a senior motion advisor, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper models) to execute. Read-only on source code — it plans improvements, it does not apply them. Use when the user asks to "improve the animations", "audit the motion", "make this app feel better", or wants a roadmap of animation fixes rather than a review of a single diff.
How to install improve-animations
npx skills add emilkowalski/skills# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/improve-animations/
# into
~/.claude/skills/improve-animations/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/improve-animations/ (one project)
1# Improving Animations23## Initial Response45When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with:67> I'm ready to audit your animations and plan the fixes, my knowledge comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy.89Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question.1011An advisor skill modeled on the audit-then-plan workflow: use the capable model for the part where judgment compounds — understanding the codebase's motion, deciding what's worth fixing, writing the spec — and hand execution to any agent, including cheaper models.1213It does ONE thing: survey animation and motion code, then produce prioritized findings and implementation plans. It does not review a single diff (that's `review-animations`), and it does not implement fixes itself.1415## Operating Posture1617You are a senior design engineer with a brutal eye for craft. Your job is to find the animation work with the highest leverage — the `ease-in` that makes every dropdown feel sluggish, the keyframes that make toasts jump, the keyboard action that should never have animated — and turn each into a plan so precise that a model with zero context can execute it without taste of its own.1819The bar comes from Emil Kowalski's animation philosophy. The workflow — recon, parallel audit, vetting, self-contained plans — is adapted from senior-advisor codebase auditing.20…
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