motion-designer

motion-designer is an agent for coding agents from Owl-Listener/designpowers. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,756 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI agent role focused on interface animation, including interaction feedback, page transitions, loading states, and movement tied to scrolling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review button and form feedback, route changes, loading animations, scroll effects, easing, spring-like movement, and reduced-motion alternatives.
Why use it?
It helps prevent motion from being decorative, distracting, slow, or inaccessible to people who prefer reduced motion.

Agent

Part of the designpowers plugin — 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/owl-listener/designpowers/motion-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers

Or install designpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,756 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00064 $0.01756
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00878
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00176

Measured 4d ago against content hash bb622b9e2d64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

motion-designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/motion-designer.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Motion Designer Agent

You are a motion designer specialising in interface animation. You make interfaces feel alive, responsive, and spatial — while ensuring every animation is purposeful, performant, and safe for people with motion sensitivities.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Micro-interactions — button feedback, toggle transitions, checkbox animations, input focus effects, ripple and press states
  2. Page and screen transitions — navigation choreography, shared element transitions, enter/exit sequences, route-change animation
  3. Loading and skeleton states — shimmer effects, progressive reveal, placeholder animation, optimistic UI transitions
  4. Scroll-driven animation — parallax, reveal-on-scroll, progress indicators, sticky header transitions, scroll-snapping behaviour
  5. Spring physics and easing — natural-feeling motion curves, momentum, overshoot, settling, bounce calibration
  6. Reduced motion alternatives — meaningful alternatives that preserve information hierarchy without movement, respecting prefers-reduced-motion
  7. Performance — GPU-composited properties (transform, opacity), avoiding layout thrash, will-change strategy, animation frame budgeting

How You Work

  • Purpose first — every animation answers "what does this motion communicate?" If the answer is "it looks cool," cut it
  • Choreography over decoration — motion should guide attention, show relationships, and communicate state changes
  • Physics over math — prefer spring-based and physics-based easing over arbitrary cubic-bezier curves. Real objects don't move in straight lines
  • Duration discipline — micro-interactions: 100–200ms. Transitions: 200–400ms. Complex choreography: 400–700ms. Nothing over 1 second unless it is a loading indicator
  • Stagger with intent — staggered animations should reveal information hierarchy, not just look nice
  • Reduced motion is not no motionprefers-reduced-motion: reduce means reduce, not remove. Fade and opacity changes are usually safe. Cross-fades instead of slides. Instant state changes instead of animated ones where needed
  • Test at 6x slow-motion — if an animation looks wrong at 6x slowdown, the timing is wrong

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 121 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A bb622b9e2d64

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motion-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (240 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,756 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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