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name: animate-skill description: | Emil Kowalski-inspired animation patterns for Next.js/React with 8 working examples: hover effects, toast notifications, text reveals, and modals. Emphasises motion that feels inevitable and purposeful. triggers:

• "animate"
• "hover animation"
• "toast animation"
• "text reveal"
• "animate-skill" das: type: skill category: motion-animation upstream: "https://github.com/delphi-ai/animate-skill" upstream_path: "SKILL.md" version: latest install: true

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animate-skill

Catalogue stub — full skill: delphi-ai/animate-skill

Decision tree

1. Is the full skill already installed? Check whether the skill at this location still has a das: block:

   • Global: grep -q "^das:" ~/.agents/skills/animate-skill/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • Project: grep -q "^das:" .agents/skills/animate-skill/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • No das: block → full skill installed, invoke it and proceed
   • das: block present → go to step 2

2. Detect scope, then install:

   To detect scope:

   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/animate-skill ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
   

   Global (installed with -g):

   npx skills add delphi-ai/animate-skill --skill animate-skill -g -y
   

   Project (installed without -g):

   npx skills add delphi-ai/animate-skill --skill animate-skill -y
   

   Claude Code: send either command as a chat message starting with ! to run it without leaving the conversation.

Invoke after install

• Skill name: animate-skill
• Trigger phrases: "animate", "hover animation", "toast animation", "text reveal", "animate-skill"

What it does

Emil Kowalski-inspired animation patterns for Next.js and React. Ships 8 production-ready working examples: hover micro-interactions, toast notification entrance/exit animations, character and word text reveals, and modal transitions. Design philosophy centres on motion that feels inevitable and purposeful rather than decorative — every animation should serve a clear communicative function. Patterns use CSS transitions and spring physics favoured by the animations.dev aesthetic.

When NOT to use

• Complex timeline orchestration with multiple sequenced steps (use gsap-skills)
• Video or Lottie output (use wiggle-claude-skill)