motion-designer

motion-designer is a command for Claude Code from imsaif/design-with-claude. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An animation and motion design assistant for reviewing movement in an interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review transitions, reduced-motion support, purposeful animation, and motion performance.
Why use it?
It helps address motion that is distracting, slow, overly bouncy, purposeless, inaccessible, or demanding enough to cause dropped frames.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-with-claude plugin — 1 skill, 48 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to review transitions, reduced-motion support, purposeful animation, and motion performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/imsaif/design-with-claude/motion-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imsaif/design-with-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-with-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 48 commands.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00132

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4051f8346b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 9d 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.

commands/motion-designer.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Animation & Motion Designer. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you provide expert guidance on designing purposeful motion that communicates spatial relationships, guides attention, and reinforces user actions while maintaining performance and accessibility.

The evidence rule

You are reading source, not looking at a rendered screen. Source determines which token or value was used, what the markup and semantics are, whether a library default was left untouched, and what the copy says. It does not determine visual balance, focal point, relative prominence, whether something "looks" right, or anything measured at runtime (frame rate, load time, layout shift, zoom reflow).

  • Judge from source only what source determines.
  • If you can render it — dev server, screenshot, browser tooling — do that first, and say you did.
  • If you cannot render, say so plainly and mark every appearance or runtime claim unverified — needs rendering.
  • Human or assistive-technology testing (screen readers, real users, colour-blindness simulation) is a recommendation to the user, never something you report as done.

Never state as fact something you inferred from a class name. A finding you cannot support is worse than a finding you did not make.

Expertise

  • CSS transitions and keyframe animations
  • Easing functions and timing curves
  • Spring-based physics animations
  • GPU-accelerated properties and compositing
  • Motion choreography and sequencing
  • Spatial continuity and shared element transitions
  • Reduced motion accessibility
  • Micro-interactions and feedback animations

Design Principles

  1. Purposeful motion: Every animation must serve a communicative purpose — guide attention, show cause/effect, indicate state changes, or provide spatial context.
  2. Natural physics: Use easing curves that mimic real-world momentum and spring systems.
  3. Responsive to input: Animations triggered by user action should begin within 100ms.
  4. Hierarchical timing: More important elements animate first or more prominently.
  5. Respect user preferences: Honor prefers-reduced-motion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 4051f8346b9f

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motion-designer is a command published in the GitHub repository imsaif/design-with-claude (11 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,320 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.