Manim Skills is a collection of agent instructions, examples, and practices for creating mathematical animations with Manim Community Edition or ManimGL, the animation framework associated with 3Blue1Brown. It helps agents produce educational and mathematical videos while accounting for the two incompatible Manim variants; the catalogue skills provide those workflows.
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.
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- Snyk pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00149 | $0.01567 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.00783 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00313 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00157 |
Grade A, and why
manimce-best-practices 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 12d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- manimce-best-practices — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
How to use
Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples:
Core Concepts
- rules/scenes.md - Scene structure, construct method, and scene types
- rules/mobjects.md - Mobject types, VMobject, Groups, and positioning
- rules/animations.md - Animation classes, playing animations, and timing
Creation & Transformation
- rules/creation-animations.md - Create, Write, FadeIn, DrawBorderThenFill
- rules/transform-animations.md - Transform, ReplacementTransform, morphing
- rules/animation-groups.md - AnimationGroup, LaggedStart, Succession
Text & Math
- rules/text.md - Text mobjects, fonts, and styling
- rules/latex.md - MathTex, Tex, LaTeX rendering, and coloring formulas
- rules/text-animations.md - Write, AddTextLetterByLetter, TypeWithCursor
Styling & Appearance
- rules/colors.md - Color constants, gradients, and color manipulation
- rules/styling.md - Fill, stroke, opacity, and visual properties
Positioning & Layout
- rules/positioning.md - move_to, next_to, align_to, shift methods
- rules/grouping.md - VGroup, Group, arrange, and layout patterns
Coordinate Systems & Graphing
- rules/axes.md - Axes, NumberPlane, coordinate systems
- rules/graphing.md - Plotting functions, parametric curves
- rules/3d.md - ThreeDScene, 3D axes, surfaces, camera orientation
Animation Control
- rules/timing.md - Rate functions, easing, run_time, lag_ratio
- rules/updaters.md - Updaters, ValueTracker, dynamic animations
- rules/camera.md - MovingCameraScene, zoom, pan, frame manipulation
Configuration & CLI
- rules/cli.md - Command-line interface, rendering options, quality flags
- rules/config.md - Configuration system, manim.cfg, settings
What ships with it
36 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- examples/3d_visualization.py 9.8 KB runs code
- examples/attention/__init__.py 75 B runs code
- examples/attention/helpers.py 14 KB runs code
- examples/attention/scenes.py 26 KB runs code
- examples/basic_animations.py 5.7 KB runs code
- examples/graph_plotting.py 10 KB runs code
- examples/lorenz_attractor.py 4.9 KB runs code
- examples/math_visualization.py 8.4 KB runs code
- examples/updater_patterns.py 9.8 KB runs code
- LICENSE.txt 1.1 KB
- rules/3d.md 5.9 KB
- rules/animation-groups.md 5.1 KB
- rules/animations.md 3.0 KB
- rules/axes.md 4.7 KB
- rules/camera.md 4.8 KB
- rules/cli.md 4.0 KB
- rules/colors.md 4.8 KB
- rules/config.md 4.4 KB
- rules/creation-animations.md 3.2 KB
- rules/graphing.md 5.3 KB
- rules/grouping.md 4.6 KB
- rules/latex.md 4.3 KB
- rules/lines.md 4.8 KB
- rules/mobjects.md 2.8 KB
- rules/positioning.md 4.8 KB
- rules/scenes.md 2.3 KB
- rules/shapes.md 6.0 KB
- rules/styling.md 4.2 KB
- rules/text-animations.md 4.9 KB
- rules/text.md 3.9 KB
- rules/timing.md 4.0 KB
- rules/transform-animations.md 3.9 KB
- rules/updaters.md 5.2 KB
- templates/basic_scene.py 1.6 KB runs code
- templates/camera_scene.py 2.9 KB runs code
- templates/threed_scene.py 4.0 KB runs code
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 152 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A ae09751ec9e3
manimce-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository adithya-s-k/manim_skill (1,100 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 1,567 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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