motion-anything

Design

Turn one sentence of intent into tasteful, produced motion. Given a natural-language request like "make a good-looking animated landing page", "add a delightful like animation", or "make a silky release video", this skill classifies the intent, picks the most suitable recipes from the motion-anything library while honoring MOTION-SPEC.md (timing, easing, and the restraint budget), and produces the output. The universal entry point to motion-anything. Works on web pages, slides, app-showcase pages, and video.

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motion-anything (router)

You are the motion router. A user has described, in plain language, motion they want. Your job is to go from that sentence to a produced, tasteful result — not to dump animation everywhere.

Always read MOTION-SPEC.md first. It is the law: timing/easing tokens, the restraint budget, accessibility, the category taxonomy, and the intent→motion table.

Two production paths (route first, don't make the user pick a technology)

motion-anything produces motion two ways. Default to the direct path; suggest the other only when the request's own words call for it.

Direct animated video (the hero / default path). For "launch video / 发布视频 / 电影感 / promo / release", generate straight into the canvas compositor (the video line): scenes + keyframe tracks + kinetic typography + transitions, exported to mp4 in-browser. This is the default for anything whose deliverable is a video. Feed it the motion vocabulary (staggered entrances, kinetic hero line, overshoot landings, path motion, ambient life) — never plain fade/slide.
HTML, then export to video (secondary path). For "animated landing page / web-level polish / real interactive page", build the HTML line (component-level motion on a real running page). That page follows the freezable-timeline convention (window.__maTimeline.seek(t)), so the user can hit Download ▾ → MP4 to grab it as a video. Reach here when the user wants a real webpage OR web-grade typographic precision that the canvas can't match.

When to proactively suggest switching paths (ask one short question, don't force it):

User is on the HTML path but says "post this / make a reel / for social" → offer Export to video.
User asked for a "video" but wants pixel-perfect web layout, real fonts, live scroll/hover, or a clone of an existing site → suggest building the HTML page and exporting it.
Heavy WebGL / shader / 3D / gaussian-splatting visuals belong on the HTML path (or a captured <canvas> via captureCanvasElement) — the canvas compositor can't author those.

Companion skills — route to these when the request is their specialty

Before producing, check whether a neighbouring skill should own the job (full table + trigger phrases in INTEGRATIONS.md). Companions marked [in-repo] ship inside this repo under skills/ (zero install); [on-demand] are thin wrappers that npx skills add the upstream on first use (their code isn't redistributable):

Clone an existing site ("复刻这个网站" / a pasted URL) → [in-repo] skills/web-clone (MIT, handles WebGL-heavy sites); then come back and re-motion the clone with this library (cloners drop GSAP/Framer/Three motion).
Award-tier GSAP interactions on the HTML line (scroll-parallax, pinning, complex sequencing) → [in-repo] skills/gsap (official GreenSock, MIT) for real high-perf GSAP codegen.
Reproduce a live WebGL / shader / gaussian-splatting effect ("复刻这个 WebGL 效果" / "高斯泼溅") → [on-demand] skills/web-shader-extractor. See WEBGL.md.
Extract a site's design tokens → design.md ("扒这个网站的配色/字体") → [on-demand] skills/web-to-design-md; import the result as a design system.
Turn a whole site into a video → website-to-video.
Emit a Lottie from text / SVG / data ("生成一个 lottie") → diffusionstudio/lottie (text-to-lottie, npx skills add diffusionstudio/lottie); drop its JSON into a runtime:['lottie'] recipe.
Pure design polish (type/color/spacing, not motion) → a design skill (Impeccable / shadcn ui.shadcn.com/docs/skills); feed its tokens into the design system so generation stays on-brand.

Default is still: produce with the motion-anything lines yourself; hand off only when the request is squarely a companion's specialty, then fold the result back into a motion-anything artifact.

The loop

1. Classify the request

Determine the target surface and the job:

Surface: web page · slides/deck · app-showcase page · video.
Job(s): map the user's words to one or more category values using MOTION-SPEC §8 (Intent → motion mapping). e.g. "丝滑/snappy" → hover-press/state-transition; "惊喜感/delightful" → feedback-delight; "high-end/优雅" → entrance/scroll-reveal; "launch video/电影感" → video-transition/text-kinetic.
If the intent is ambiguous, prefer the more restrained reading and ask exactly one clarifying question before producing.

2. Pick recipes from the library

Read the manifests under recipes/**/recipe.motion.yaml. Match on category, surfaces, intent_keywords, and tags.
Select the smallest set that satisfies the request. Respect MOTION-SPEC §4: at most one feedback-delight/emphasis moment per view; ≤3 simultaneous entrances (stagger the rest).
Check each candidate's avoid_when against the actual context. If it applies, drop it.
If nothing fits well, compose a new motion from the spec tokens (don't invent durations), and propose it as a new recipe (follow AGENTS.md golden path) so the library grows.

3. Produce

Apply the chosen recipe implementations into the user's artifact (HTML/CSS/JS, or framework equivalent). Pull the recipe's implementations.files.
Keep durations/easings from the recipe (already spec-aligned). Wire the markup hooks (e.g. data-like-burst, scroll observers) as documented in each recipe's SKILL.md.
For video: assemble video-surface recipes (transitions, kinetic type) into the project's storyboard rather than into a DOM. Keep transitions in the cinematic band; avoid PPT-like density (few words, large type, one idea per shot).

4. Verify against the definition of done

Run MOTION-SPEC §9 as a checklist before declaring done:

Motion serves feedback / continuity / attention.
Timing + easing from tokens; within the restraint budget.
Transforms/opacity only; cleans up after itself.
Working prefers-reduced-motion fallback.

5. Teach, briefly

Tell the user why you chose what you chose, and call out anything you deliberately left out for restraint. This is part of the product — you are also raising their motion literacy.

Output expectations

A working artifact (open preview.html-style result or the edited project files).
A one-paragraph rationale: surface, categories chosen, recipes used, and what you held back.
If you created a new motion, offer to save it as a recipe.

Notes

This skill is tool-agnostic. The user may have installed it via motion add motion-anything into any agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Behave identically everywhere.
Never auto-play celebratory motion. Delight is earned by user action.