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Collects best-practice rules and tested example scripts for ManimGL, the 3Blue1Brown OpenGL animation engine, covering scenes, mobjects, Tex rendering, 3D and interactive mode.
Install ManimGL Best Practices
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practices --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .claude/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .claude/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practicesType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practices --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .agents/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .agents/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practices --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .cursor/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .cursor/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git --path skills/manimgl-best-practices--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practices --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .gemini/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .gemini/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practicesInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .github/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .github/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install adithya-s-k/manim_skill manimgl-best-practices --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/manimgl-best-practices .opencode/skills/manimgl-best-practices && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "manimgl-best-practices" agent skill from https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill/tree/main/skills/manimgl-best-practices into .opencode/skills/manimgl-best-practices/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "manimgl-best-practices", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
manimgl-best-practices- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Used in
- 2 other repos
- Token cost
- ~1.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 412 words
- Files
- 110 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 3
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
At a glance
Collects best-practice rules and tested example scripts for ManimGL, the 3Blue1Brown OpenGL animation engine, covering scenes, mobjects, Tex rendering, 3D and interactive mode.
- Works in 6 steps: Version confusion - Ensure you're using… → ShowCreation vs Create - ManimGL uses… → Tex vs MathTex - ManimGL uses Tex with… → …
- Writing or debugging a ManimGL animation script
- SKILL.md covers How to use, Working Examples, Scene Templates and Quick Reference, plus 1 more section
- Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls pip
What it does
The skill is a set of rule files and example Python scripts for ManimGL specifically, the from manimlib import * version used for 3Blue1Brown-style animations, not Manim Community Edition. Rule files cover core concepts such as InteractiveScene and mobject types, creation and transform animations like ShowCreation and TransformMatchingTex, text and math rendering with Tex and tex_to_color_map, styling such as fill, stroke and GLSL coloring, 3D objects and camera control with frame.reorient, and interactive development using the -se flag and checkpoint_paste.
It triggers when manimgl or 3b1b manim is mentioned, when code imports from manimlib, when manimgl CLI commands run, or when patterns like InteractiveScene, self.frame or self.embed() appear. Working example files cover basic animations, LaTeX-heavy math visualization, graphing with Axes, and 3D scenes with camera control, and the licence is CC-BY-NC-4.0, which restricts commercial use.
When your agent uses it
- Writing or debugging a ManimGL animation script
- Adding 3D surfaces, camera moves or interactive debugging to a Manim scene
- Rendering LaTeX equations or colored math expressions in an animation
- Migrating or distinguishing ManimGL code from Manim Community Edition
Example prompts
- “Write a ManimGL scene that rotates a 3D torus while a LaTeX equation fades in.”
- “Use checkpoint_paste to debug this ManimGL animation interactively.”
- “Color the matrix terms in this Tex expression using tex_to_color_map.”
Requirements
- ManimGL (the from manimlib import * package)
- A LaTeX installation for Tex rendering
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Version confusion - Ensure you're using manimgl, not manim (community version)
- ShowCreation vs Create - ManimGL uses ShowCreation, not Create
- Tex vs MathTex - ManimGL uses Tex with capital R raw strings
- self.frame vs self.camera.frame - ManimGL uses self.frame directly
- fix_in_frame() - Call on the mobject, not the scene
- Interactive mode - Use -se flag for interactive development
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cef0450. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships script files (Python, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
pip
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
github.comcreativecommons.org
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
ManimGL Best Practices loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 157 tokens; SKILL.md has 412 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (CC-BY-NC-4.0) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 412 words (~1,860 tokens).
“Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples:”
- name
- manimgl-best-practices
Files
SKILL.md and 109 other files (references) in skills/manimgl-best-practices of adithya-s-k/manim_skill.
- SKILL.md
- LICENSE.txt
- examples/attention_arcs_animation.py
- examples/attention_pattern_dots.py
- examples/attention_scenes.py
- examples/attention_softmax_masking.py
- examples/autoregressive_flow.py
- examples/basic_multihead.py
- examples/bloch_sphere_3d.py
- examples/block_collision_basic.py
- examples/blocks_3d.py
- examples/collision_phase_space.py
- examples/complex_s_plane.py
- examples/cost_function.py
- examples/cube_projection_3d.py
- examples/damped_solutions_splane.py
- examples/dot_product_visualization.py
- examples/double_slit_interference.py
- examples/eigenvalue_equations.py
- examples/eigenvector_flow_field.py
- … and 90 more
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cef0450
Used in 2 other repositories
We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in adithya-s-k/manim_skill, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ManimGL Best Practices this skilladithya-s-k/manim_skill | 1.2k | 2 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | |
| FigureMuuuun/luxas | 1.2k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| PosterlyChenruishuo/posterly | 418 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Blender 3DGTKottman/mortiflix-oss | 499 | — | ~902 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Canvas DesignLeastBit/Claude_skills_zh-CN | 590 | — | ~961 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Drawing With Pycairooaustegard/claude-skills | 150 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about ManimGL Best Practices
What does ManimGL Best Practices do?
Collects best-practice rules and tested example scripts for ManimGL, the 3Blue1Brown OpenGL animation engine, covering scenes, mobjects, Tex rendering, 3D and interactive mode. The skill is a set of rule files and example Python scripts for ManimGL specifically, the from manimlib import * version used for 3Blue1Brown-style animations, not Manim Community Edition.reorient, and interactive development using the -se flag and checkpoint_paste.
When should I use ManimGL Best Practices?
ManimGL Best Practices fits situations like: writing or debugging a ManimGL animation script; adding 3D surfaces, camera moves or interactive debugging to a Manim scene; rendering LaTeX equations or colored math expressions in an animation; migrating or distinguishing ManimGL code from Manim Community Edition.
How do I install ManimGL Best Practices in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/manimgl-best-practices in adithya-s-k/manim_skill) into .claude/skills/manimgl-best-practices in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install ManimGL Best Practices in Codex?
Run `npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/manimgl-best-practices in adithya-s-k/manim_skill) into .agents/skills/manimgl-best-practices in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use ManimGL Best Practices in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill --skill manimgl-best-practices -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/manimgl-best-practices, .gemini/skills/manimgl-best-practices, .github/skills/manimgl-best-practices and .opencode/skills/manimgl-best-practices in your project.
What does ManimGL Best Practices need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, ManimGL Best Practices needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (pip). Our summary lists: ManimGL (the from manimlib import * package); A LaTeX installation for Tex rendering.
Does ManimGL Best Practices access the network?
SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: github.com and creativecommons.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is ManimGL Best Practices safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does ManimGL Best Practices use?
ManimGL Best Practices is published under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder).
How many tokens does ManimGL Best Practices use?
About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to ManimGL Best Practices?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with ManimGL Best Practices: Figure (Muuuun/luxas, 1.2k stars), Posterly (Chenruishuo/posterly, 418 stars), Blender 3D (GTKottman/mortiflix-oss, 499 stars) and Canvas Design (LeastBit/Claude_skills_zh-CN, 590 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains ManimGL Best Practices?
adithya-s-k (a GitHub user) maintains it in adithya-s-k/manim_skill, which has 1,154 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on January 23, 2026.
Source: adithya-s-k/manim_skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.