motion-graphics-direction

motion-graphics-direction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (5,930 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for designing motion in videos and animated graphics, such as title sequences, captions, diagrams, and product overlays.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, prompt, storyboard, specify, build, review, or check motion graphics before choosing animation or editing tools.
Why use it?
It helps ensure movement explains information, directs attention, and sets a deliberate mood instead of being added as decoration. It also accounts for flashing, contrast, captions, and reduced-motion needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan, prompt, storyboard, specify, build, review, or check motion graphics before choosing animation or editing tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/motion-graphics-direction
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.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill motion-graphics-direction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,930 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 462
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00097 $0.05930
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02965
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00593

Measured 11d ago against content hash b6cd8987a19f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

motion-graphics-direction 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 11d 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.

skills/production/post-production/motion-graphics-direction/SKILL.md · 465 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 465 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Motion Graphics Direction

Use this skill to turn a video brief into motion graphics that explain, emphasize, brand, or pace the piece. Treat motion as editorial direction: every move should reveal meaning, guide attention, clarify structure, or create a deliberate feeling.

This is provider-independent. Use it before choosing a model, renderer, animation library, editing tool, or compositing environment.

Evidence stance

Documented facts:

  • WCAG 2.2 requires web content to avoid flashes above the three-flashes threshold and documents that interaction-triggered motion should be disableable unless essential. Verified 2026-07-10 from W3C WCAG Understanding pages.
  • W3C Technique C39 documents prefers-reduced-motion as a way to let users prevent animations. Verified 2026-07-10.
  • WCAG contrast guidance sets 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at Level AA, with higher AAA ratios. Verified 2026-07-10.
  • Apple, Material Design, Microsoft Fluent, and IBM Carbon all treat motion as a design-system behavior with purpose, timing, easing, accessibility, and consistency constraints rather than decoration. Verified 2026-07-10.
  • Netflix timed-text guidance uses two-line maximums and language-specific line-length limits such as 42 characters per line for many Latin-script subtitle templates. Verified 2026-07-10.
  • Datawrapper explains why bar and column charts should normally start at zero, because bar length encodes magnitude. Verified 2026-07-10.

Empirical observations from production practice:

  • Viewers read motion graphics in a small number of attention windows: entry, hold, emphasis, exit. Crowding too many simultaneous changes often lowers comprehension.
  • AI-generated and template-driven videos often fail because overlays compete with the subject, data marks animate without scale context, and typography is chosen for style before legibility.
  • Strong motion packages usually feel simple because many hidden choices are locked: type scale, grid, safe areas, easing family, timing ratios, transitions, caption policy, and data-label policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 465 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 465 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A b6cd8987a19f

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motion-graphics-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 5,930 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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