canon-micro-interactions

canon-micro-interactions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 74 tokens per session (687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to small animations that acknowledge user actions, such as toggling a switch, checking a box, liking something, or dismissing an item. It covers the action, the visual response, timing, and when the animation ends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review feedback animations for buttons, switches, checkboxes, refresh actions, likes, and swipe-to-dismiss interactions.
Why use it?
It helps users understand whether an action worked without making the interface slow or distracting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design or review feedback animations for buttons, switches, checkboxes, refresh actions, likes, and swipe-to-dismiss interactions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/canon/canon-micro-interactions
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 Dragoon0x/canon --skill canon-micro-interactions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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 $0.00074 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 8d ago against content hash 41ebf851a927, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-micro-interactions 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 8d 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.

source/skills/canon-micro-interactions/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Micro-interactions

A micro-interaction is an animation that acknowledges an action. Toggle flips, hearts fill, checkmarks draw. The test is always: does removing it leave the user unsure whether the action worked?

The feedback loop

Every micro-interaction has four parts: trigger → rules → feedback → loop/exit.

  • Trigger: user taps, hovers, or the system state changes.
  • Rules: what should happen (toggle on, add to favorites, validate).
  • Feedback: the visual response (switch slides, heart fills, check draws).
  • Loop/exit: does it repeat? Reset? End?

Duration budget

Micro-interactions live in the 100–300ms envelope (canon-motion micro and short ranges). Longer and they block the next interaction.

Interaction Duration
Toggle switch slide 150–200ms
Checkbox check-draw 150ms
Like heart fill 200–300ms
Button press scale 100ms
Pull-to-refresh spin continuous until complete
Swipe-to-dismiss 200ms exit after threshold

Easing

  • Snappy: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1) — quick start, soft land. For most toggles and taps.
  • Spring: acceptable for mobile-native feel (draggable elements). Use carefully — bounce can look childish.
  • Linear: almost never. Feels mechanical.

What earns a micro-interaction

Earns it Doesn't
State changed (on→off, liked→unliked) Data loaded (use skeleton, not animation)
Item added/removed from list Passive content appearing
Drag threshold crossed Hover on non-interactive element
User achieved something (completed task) Every page transition

prefers-reduced-motion

Every micro-interaction must degrade to instant state change under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce. No exceptions.

Anti-patterns

Anti-pattern Why it fails
Micro-interaction > 500ms Blocks next action
Bouncing on every tap Childish, exhausting
Animation on passive content Unnecessary distraction
No reduced-motion fallback Accessibility fail
Micro-interaction obscures the result User unsure what happened

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 74 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 41ebf851a927

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canon-micro-interactions is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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