Agent skill

Animation Vocabulary

by flornkm in flornkm/personal-site

Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" →…

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Animation Vocabulary

skills CLI
$ npx skills add flornkm/personal-site --skill animation-vocabulary -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install flornkm/personal-site animation-vocabulary --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flornkm/personal-site.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/animation-vocabulary .claude/skills/animation-vocabulary && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
animation-vocabulary
GitHub stars
151
Used in
13 other repos
Token cost
~3.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,727 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" →…

  • Works in 6 steps: Read for intent, not keywords. Users… → Quote the glossary verbatim. Its… → Disambiguate close terms. When two… → …
  • The user asks whats it called when…
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Instructions, Examples and Glossary
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Animation Vocabulary is an agent skill from flornkm/personal-site. Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" → Rubber-banding). Use when the user asks "what's it called when…", or describes a motion effect without knowing its name and wants the right word to prompt an AI or designer with. For naming an effect, not designing or building one.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Web animation and motion. It works with iOS.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks whats it called when…
  • Describes a motion effect without knowing its name and wants the right word to prompt an AI

Example prompts

  • “the bouncy thing when a popover opens”
  • “the iOS rubber-band scroll”
  • “s it called when…”
  • “/animation-vocabulary”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read for intent, not keywords. Users describe what they see or feel ("springy", "slides off", "draws itself in"), not the technical name…
  2. Quote the glossary verbatim. Its descriptions are authoritative — use them as-is, don't paraphrase.
  3. Disambiguate close terms. When two compete (Clip-path vs Mask, Pop in vs Bounce, Shared element transition vs Layout animation), contrast…
  4. When nothing matches exactly, name the closest term and say plainly it's an approximation, or describe the effect in the glossary's…
  5. Stay within this glossary. If a term genuinely isn't here, say so rather than inventing one — though you may explain the concept using…
  6. Keep it tight. A naming question wants a name, not an essay. Lead with the term; expand only if asked.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e096b60. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Animation Vocabulary loads about 3.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,727 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~111
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.2k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,727 words (~3,221 tokens).

“Turn a vague description of a motion or effect into the precise term, so the user knows what to ask for.”

— opening of SKILL.md by flornkm
name
animation-vocabulary

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/animation-vocabulary of flornkm/personal-site.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e096b60

Used in 13 other repositories

We found 18 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 13 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in flornkm/personal-site, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Works with

Questions about Animation Vocabulary

What does Animation Vocabulary do?

Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" →…. Animation Vocabulary is an agent skill from flornkm/personal-site. Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" → Rubber-banding).

When should I use Animation Vocabulary?

Animation Vocabulary fits situations like: the user asks whats it called when…; describes a motion effect without knowing its name and wants the right word to prompt an AI.

How do I install Animation Vocabulary in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add flornkm/personal-site --skill animation-vocabulary -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/animation-vocabulary in flornkm/personal-site) into .claude/skills/animation-vocabulary in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Animation Vocabulary in Codex?

Run `npx skills add flornkm/personal-site --skill animation-vocabulary -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/animation-vocabulary in flornkm/personal-site) into .agents/skills/animation-vocabulary in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Animation Vocabulary 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 flornkm/personal-site --skill animation-vocabulary -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/animation-vocabulary, .gemini/skills/animation-vocabulary, .github/skills/animation-vocabulary and .opencode/skills/animation-vocabulary in your project.

What does Animation Vocabulary need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Animation Vocabulary is instructions for the agent only.

Does Animation Vocabulary access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Animation Vocabulary 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 Animation Vocabulary use?

No licence was found for Animation Vocabulary or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Animation Vocabulary use?

About 3.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Animation Vocabulary?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Animation Vocabulary: Emilkowal Animations (theexperiencecompany/gaia, 308 stars), Impeccable (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars), GSAP ScrollTrigger (greensock/gsap-skills, 16k stars) and GSAP Core Animation (greensock/gsap-skills, 16k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Animation Vocabulary?

flornkm (a GitHub user) maintains it in flornkm/personal-site, which has 151 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: flornkm/personal-site on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.