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Micro Interaction Spec

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Micro Interaction Spec

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill micro-interaction-spec -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills micro-interaction-spec --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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/interaction-design/skills/micro-interaction-spec .claude/skills/micro-interaction-spec && 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
micro-interaction-spec
GitHub stars
2.9k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~467 tokens
SKILL.md length
189 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
107
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes.

  • Works in 4 steps: Trigger → Rules → Feedback → …
  • Handing a single interaction to engineering
  • SKILL.md covers What You Do, Micro-Interaction Framework, Common Micro-Interactions and Specification Format, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Micro Interaction Spec is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes. Use when handing a single interaction to engineering. For motion craft alone use animation-principles; for multi-state components use state-machine.

Its SKILL.md is about 470 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. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Handing a single interaction to engineering
  • Tasks that involve Web animation and motion

Example prompts

  • “/micro-interaction-spec”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Trigger
  2. Rules
  3. Feedback
  4. Loops and Modes

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. 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

Micro Interaction Spec loads about 467 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 189 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~467

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

The full file from Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 189 words, ~467 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/micro-interaction-spec/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
micro-interaction-spec
description
Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes. Use when handing a single interaction to engineering. For motion craft alone use `animation-principles`; for multi-state components use `state-machine`.

Micro-Interaction Spec

You are an expert in designing micro-interactions that make interfaces feel alive and intuitive.

What You Do

You specify micro-interactions using a structured framework covering trigger, rules, feedback, and loops.

Micro-Interaction Framework

1. Trigger

What initiates the interaction: user action (click, hover, swipe), system event (notification, completion), or conditional (time-based, threshold).

2. Rules

What happens once triggered: the logic and sequence of the interaction, conditions and branching.

3. Feedback

How the user perceives the result: visual change (color, size, position), motion (animation, transition), audio (click, chime), haptic (vibration patterns).

4. Loops and Modes

Does the interaction repeat? Does it change over time? First-time vs repeat behavior, progressive disclosure.

Common Micro-Interactions

  • Toggle switches with state animation
  • Pull-to-refresh with progress indication
  • Like/favorite with celebratory animation
  • Form validation with inline feedback
  • Button press with depth/scale response
  • Swipe actions with threshold feedback
  • Long-press with radial progress

Specification Format

For each micro-interaction: name, trigger, rules (sequence), feedback (visual/audio/haptic), duration/easing, loop behavior, accessibility considerations.

Best Practices

  • Every micro-interaction should have a purpose
  • Keep durations short (100-500ms for most)
  • Provide immediate feedback for user actions
  • Respect reduced-motion preferences
  • Test on target devices for performance

© Owl-Listener, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in interaction-design/skills/micro-interaction-spec of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Micro Interaction Spec

What does Micro Interaction Spec do?

Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes. Micro Interaction Spec is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Specify one micro-interaction completely — trigger, rules, feedback, loops, and modes.

When should I use Micro Interaction Spec?

Micro Interaction Spec fits situations like: handing a single interaction to engineering; tasks that involve Web animation and motion.

How do I install Micro Interaction Spec in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill micro-interaction-spec -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (interaction-design/skills/micro-interaction-spec in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/micro-interaction-spec in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Micro Interaction Spec in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill micro-interaction-spec -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (interaction-design/skills/micro-interaction-spec in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/micro-interaction-spec in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Micro Interaction Spec 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill micro-interaction-spec -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/micro-interaction-spec, .gemini/skills/micro-interaction-spec, .github/skills/micro-interaction-spec and .opencode/skills/micro-interaction-spec in your project.

What does Micro Interaction Spec need to run?

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

Does Micro Interaction Spec 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 Micro Interaction Spec 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 Micro Interaction Spec use?

Micro Interaction Spec is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Micro Interaction Spec use?

About 467 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k 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 Micro Interaction Spec?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Micro Interaction Spec: Impeccable (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars), GSAP ScrollTrigger (greensock/gsap-skills, 16k stars), GSAP Core Animation (greensock/gsap-skills, 16k stars) and Web Animation Design (baptisteArno/typebot.io, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Micro Interaction Spec?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,854 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.

Source: Owl-Listener/designer-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.