boxel: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/choreo-create/SKILL.md

choreo-create is a skill for Claude Code from cardstack/boxel. It costs 39 tokens per session (781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for recreating Choreo gallery examples as Glimmer interfaces, animated scenes, films, or teaching examples. Choreo is the project's system for coordinating motion and visual changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to combine gallery demos, build animated interfaces and scenes, add live tuning, or create focused learning examples.
Why use it?
It avoids guessing which example, source file, or animation guidance to follow when adapting an existing demo.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is cardstack/boxel's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on boxel 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 boxel configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cardstack/boxel. 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/cardstack/boxel/main/.claude/skills/choreo-create/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cardstack/boxel

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 781 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 $0.00039 $0.00781
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00312
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured 5d ago against content hash a2993dc50b4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

choreo-create 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/choreo-create/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build from real Choreo examples

The gallery's catalog is packages/choreo-gallery/realm/demos/<id>.json, one GalleryDemo card per demo (title, group, API pills, usage sample, walkthrough, lesson). Each demo adopts from its stage, packages/choreo-gallery/realm/stages/<id>.gts, and a demo with a Deep Dive has its note in packages/choreo-gallery/realm/notes/<id>.gts. Read the selected example before adapting it. Imports use glimmer-motion, @cardstack/choreo, @cardstack/choreo/film, or the separate @cardstack/choreo-player package; verify unfamiliar APIs against exported source (packages/glimmer-motion/src/index.ts, packages/choreo/src/index.ts).

Choose only the guidance needed

  • For an animation pattern, read .claude/skills/motion-pattern/SKILL.md, then its selected specialist. The shared Glimmer invariants are the three rules in motion-element; do not repeat them in every implementation note.
  • For gates, derived motion, commands, delivery or custom vocabulary, read advanced-orchestration.md.
  • For camera coordinates, live DOM projection, picture actors or film clocks, read spatial-and-film.md.
  • For combining examples into an application or narrative, read composition-recipes.md.
  • For DialKit, presets or capture mechanics, read tuning-and-recording.md.

Identify the semantic state, participant identities, property owners and clock before composing. Reuse the existing implementation rather than constructing a second preview-only motion system. Keep shared variables shared and independent transitions independent. Preserve user input during interruptible movement.

Teaching and tuning

Every gallery demo carries a lesson (concept guide, why, experiment, pitfall, composition idea) in packages/choreo-gallery/realm/demos/<id>.json. The concept guides are packages/choreo-gallery/realm/docs/guides/*.md. packages/choreo-gallery/tools/api-inventory.json maps public APIs to concept guides; look up the relevant entries rather than loading it whole. For a tutorial, isolate one observable relationship and predict the result of a parameter change. The docs-only spatial/film studies in packages/choreo-gallery/realm/design/docs-studies-plan.md are planned, not shipped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 60 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A a2993dc50b4e

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choreo-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository cardstack/boxel (27 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 781 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-21.

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