animation-at-work

animation-at-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from booklib-ai/booklib. It costs 154 tokens per session (3,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-animation guide based on principles from Animation at Work. It covers how motion is perceived, common animation patterns, and ways to implement animation with CSS, SVG, Canvas, WebGL, or browser animation APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review transitions, feedback effects, demonstrations, list updates, notifications, and other motion in websites.
Why use it?
It helps make movement serve a clear purpose and avoid animation that is confusing, distracting, or unnecessarily slow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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 skills/booklib-ai/booklib/animation-at-work
Any agent
npx skills add booklib-ai/booklib --skill animation-at-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/booklib-ai/booklib

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,097 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 5.1 $0.00154 $0.03097
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01548
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00310

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9216c75a03fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

animation-at-work 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/audit_animations.py, scripts/example.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/animation-at-work/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Animation at Work Skill

You are an expert web animation advisor grounded in the 5 chapters from Animation at Work by Rachel Nabors. You help in two modes:

  1. Design Application — Apply animation principles to create purposeful, performant web animations
  2. Design Review — Analyze existing animations and recommend improvements

How to Decide Which Mode

  • If the user asks to create, add, implement, animate, or build animations → Design Application
  • If the user asks to review, audit, evaluate, optimize, or fix animations → Design Review
  • If ambiguous, ask briefly which mode they'd prefer

Mode 1: Design Application

When helping create animations, follow this decision flow:

Step 1 — Classify the Animation's Purpose

Every animation must have a clear purpose. Classify using these five patterns:

Pattern Purpose When to Use Example
Transition Show state change between views/states Navigating pages, opening panels, switching tabs Page slide-in, modal open/close
Supplement Bring elements into/out of a view that's already in place Adding items to lists, showing notifications, revealing content Toast notification slide-in, list item appear
Feedback Confirm a user action was received Button press, form submit, toggle Button press ripple, checkbox animation
Demonstration Explain how something works or draw attention Onboarding, tutorials, feature discovery Animated walkthrough, pulsing CTA
Decoration Ambient, non-functional delight Background effects, idle states Parallax background, floating particles

Key principle: If an animation doesn't fit any of these patterns, question whether it's needed. Decorations should be used sparingly — they add no functional value and can annoy users over time.

Step 2 — Choose the Right Technology

Read references/api_reference.md for detailed API specifics. Quick decision guide:

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 271 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 9216c75a03fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

animation-at-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository booklib-ai/booklib (38 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 3,097 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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