Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill absolute-beginnergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principlesWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00029 | $0.00465 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00233 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00093 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
Animation Principles - Absolute Beginner 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.
What it actually says
Your First Look at Animation Magic
Animation makes drawings move in ways that feel real and fun. Disney animators discovered 12 tricks that make animation look great. Here they are in simple words:
1. Squash and Stretch
Things squish when they hit something and stretch when they move fast. Drop a ball - it flattens on the ground, then bounces back round.
2. Anticipation
Before a big move, there's a small move the other way. Before jumping up, you crouch down first.
3. Staging
Put important things where people will see them. Like putting the main actor in a spotlight on stage.
4. Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose
Two ways to draw: either draw every picture in order, or draw the important pictures first and fill in between.
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
When you stop, your hair keeps moving. Different parts move at different times, not all at once.
6. Slow In and Slow Out
Things speed up when starting and slow down when stopping. Like a car at a traffic light.
7. Arc
Most things move in curves, not straight lines. Throw a ball - it makes a rainbow shape in the air.
8. Secondary Action
Little movements that happen along with the main movement. Walking while whistling and swinging your arms.
9. Timing
How fast or slow something happens changes how it feels. Fast = exciting. Slow = calm or heavy.
10. Exaggeration
Make things bigger and more dramatic than real life. Cartoon characters can stretch their eyes wide when surprised.
11. Solid Drawing
Make flat pictures look like they have weight and depth. Things should feel like you could pick them up.
12. Appeal
Make characters interesting to watch. They should have something special that makes you want to keep looking.
Remember
You don't need to use all 12 at once. Start with one or two. The more you practice, the more natural they become.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 48 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 67776ccf5d3a
Animation Principles - Absolute Beginner is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (79 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 465 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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