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.
npx skills add dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer --skill designer-animationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer/designer-animation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer/designer-animation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer/designer-animation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer/designer-animation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer/designer-animation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00026 | $0.00578 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00231 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00116 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00058 |
Grade A, and why
designer-animation 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Designer Animation
Honest capability boundary
Substance 3D Designer has no timeline track, no keyframes, and no animation curve editor exposed through its Python SDK. Nothing here sets a keyframe, edits a curve, or plays back a clip.
Designer graphs can still produce animated output because a graph is a deterministic function of its inputs: change a time-like input and the graph evaluates differently. This skill uses that:
list_animation_parametersreports candidate time-like inputs by name convention (containingtime,frame,phase,speed,duration,animation, oroffset), at both graph level and node level.bake_animation_framessweeps one of those parameters across a bounded range and exports one header-verified texture per step as an ordered frame set.
Frame rate and playback are downstream choices. This skill emits ordered frames plus the swept values, not a video file and not a timed clip.
Discovery before baking
list_animation_parameters is read-only and reports, for each candidate, its
current value plus read_only and connected flags. A candidate that is
read-only or already connected cannot be driven by bake_animation_frames
without rewiring, so confirm the target before baking.
The result is explicitly marked as name-matched discovery, not a verified animation binding. Designer has no authoritative animation parameter to read.
Bounded and reversible
- Series length is bounded to 64 steps and values to ±1,000,000.
- The output directory must be fresh, so a stale file can never be reported as a new result.
- The swept parameter is restored to its original value if any step fails.
- Every exported file is header-verified against the SDK-reported dimensions.
Related
designer-particles uses the same engine for seed-variation tiles and
designer-dynamics for integer iteration passes.
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed 0e2537a9fed0
- 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 7109c3a2174b
designer-animation is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-substance3d-designer (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-20.
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