What is animate?
animate is a Claude skill by emilkowalski that 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. It is listed under Design & UI and has 47,103 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | emilkowalski |
| Repository | emilkowalski/skills |
| Popularity | 47,103 GitHub stars |
| Category | Design & UI |
| Security | Low risk (96/100) |
| Rank | #186 of 1,262 Claude skills; #41 in Design & UI |
| SKILL.md length | 207 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-11 |
| Stars this week | +1,741 |
| Installs in the last 24h | 2,500 |
Is animate safe to install?
animate scores 96/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 8 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Doesn't ask for keys or credentials | Pass |
| Makes network requests | Note |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
What the scan matched
- network:
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How do I install animate?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills --skill animate
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills cp -r skills/skills/animate ~/.claude/skills/animate
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the animate skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs animate for you:
Install the "animate" skill from https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills/tree/main/skills/animate into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
More from emilkowalski/skills
This repository has 4 Claude skills on MCPMods.
- emil-design-eng: This skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible det (Low risk)
- review-animations: Reviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar derived from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. D (Low risk)
- apple-design: Apple's approach to interface design and fluid, physical motion, translated for the web. Use when building or reviewing (Low risk)