Manim Video

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Animating equations
• Transformations
• Educational explanations
• Distinguish Manim Community from ManimGL and deliver a rendered

Example prompts

• “/manim-video”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Inspect the project's environment and imports. Use its virtual environment
2. 2Derive the explanation before the animation: quantities, units, assumptions,
3. 3Use Scene or a supported specialized scene, explicit run_time and deliberate
4. 4Validate mathematical correctness independently from a successful render.
5. 5Distinguish Text from Tex/MathTex. LaTeX requires external tooling; prototype
6. 6Select the renderer for needed capabilities. Do not assume Cairo and OpenGL

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a744bdc. 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 (its code samples are python).

  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):

  • docs.manim.community
  • pypi.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

Manim Video loads about 953 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 359 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~65

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~953

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

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 WrongStack/WrongStack at commit a744bdc, republished under its MIT licence (© WrongStack). 359 words, ~953 tokens.

name

manim-video

description

Create mathematical, geometric and scientific videos with Manim Community in Python. Use when animating equations, graphs, transformations or educational explanations; distinguish Manim Community from ManimGL and deliver a rendered, inspected video.

version

1.0.1

trigger

animating equations, graphs, transformations or educational explanations; distinguish Manim Community from ManimGL and deliver a rendered, inspected video.

required-capabilities

filesystem.read, filesystem.write

optional-capabilities

verification.run, web.research

metadata.routing-group

media

from manim import Circle, Create, Scene, Transform, Square

class ShapeTransition(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        shape = Circle()
        self.play(Create(shape), run_time=1)
        self.play(Transform(shape, Square()), run_time=1)
        self.wait(0.5)

© WrongStack, 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 packages/core/skills/manim-video of WrongStack/WrongStack.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a744bdc