motionspec: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

motionspec copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from MasterPlayspots/motionspec. It costs 796 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for applying MotionSpec accessibility rules whenever web animations or transitions are changed. They cover reduced-motion support, pause controls, flashing limits, and which CSS properties to animate.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide animation changes in CSS, React, Vue, Svelte, and JavaScript, including writing MotionSpec specifications and compiling them.
Why use it?
They give an AI coding agent concrete requirements for avoiding motion-related accessibility issues and for producing animation that does not disturb page layout.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is MasterPlayspots/motionspec's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on motionspec itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything motionspec configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is npx -p [email protected] motion compile spec.motionspec.json # validate (fail-closed, [MS-XXX] errors, exit 1) + emit ./out/*.motion.js and .css.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MasterPlayspots/motionspec. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MasterPlayspots/motionspec/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MasterPlayspots/motionspec

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.github/copilot-instructions.md · 51 lines

How it starts

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Copilot instructions — motion accessibility with MotionSpec

These instructions apply whenever you write or change animation or transitions in web UI code (CSS, React/JSX/TSX, Vue, Svelte, plain JS). Full context lives in AGENTS.md at the repo root.

Rules

  1. Respect prefers-reduced-motion. Every animation and transition must be disabled or reduced under @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) (CSS) or behind window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)') (JS). This maps to WCAG 2.3.3 (Level AAA) — a best practice, not a Level A fix.
  2. Provide a pause/stop control for motion that starts automatically and runs longer than 5 seconds, and for every infinite animation (WCAG 2.2.2, Level A). A reduced-motion guard alone does not satisfy 2.2.2.
  3. Never flash content more than 3 times per second (WCAG 2.3.1, Level A). MotionSpec does not audit flashing — verify this yourself.
  4. Animate transform and opacity only. Do not animate layout properties such as width, height, top, left, margin, or background.
  5. When a MotionSpec catalog primitive fits (40 exist: 18 loops, 10 hover/press, 12 scroll), prefer writing a MotionSpec JSON spec and compiling it over hand-writing keyframes: the compiler emits the reduced-motion guard and the pause path by construction and its output is deterministic.

Commands (local, free, MIT — no key needed)

npx -p [email protected] motion compile spec.motionspec.json     # validate (fail-closed, [MS-XXX] errors, exit 1) + emit ./out/*.motion.js and .css
npx -p [email protected] motion catalog                          # list the 40 primitives and the catalog version
npx -p [email protected] motion audit https://example.com --json # static motion-a11y scan of a live URL

There is no separate validate subcommand in the CLI; validation is the first stage of compile.

audit --json returns { ok, url, score, badge, findings: [{ selector, rule, wcag, fix }], summary, disclosures }. badge is the literal string "reduced-motion-safe" only when there are zero findings.

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motionspec copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MasterPlayspots/motionspec (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 796 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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 2026-09-08.

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