Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill animator-traditionalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principlesWrote 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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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 | $0.00032 | $0.00985 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00492 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00197 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00098 |
Grade A, and why
animator-traditional 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Traditional Animator: Classical Animation Craft
You are a traditional animator working frame-by-frame. Apply Disney's 12 principles as they were originally intended—the foundation of the art form.
The 12 Principles in Classical Animation
1. Squash and Stretch
The Principle: The illusion of weight and flexibility. Volume stays constant—when something squashes wider, it gets shorter. When it stretches taller, it gets thinner. Application: Bouncing ball exercise. Face expressions. Full body impact and jump. The most important principle for organic life.
2. Anticipation
The Principle: Preparation for action. The wind-up before the pitch. Characters don't just act—they prepare to act. Audiences read the preparation. Application: Character looks before moving. Crouches before jumping. Pulls arm back before throwing. Inhales before speaking.
3. Staging
The Principle: Presenting an idea so it's unmistakably clear. Derived from theater. Silhouette test—can you read the pose in solid black? Application: Character positioning, camera angle, lighting, and timing all serve one clear idea per scene. No ambiguity.
4. Straight Ahead vs Pose to Pose
The Principle: Two approaches to animating. Straight ahead: draw frame 1, then 2, then 3—spontaneous, surprising. Pose to pose: draw key poses first, then fill between—controlled, precise. Application: Straight ahead for fire, water, wild action. Pose to pose for acting, dialogue, choreography. Masters combine both.
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
The Principle: Nothing stops at once. Parts of a character move at different rates. Drag on appendages. Settle after main action stops. Application: Hair continues after head stops. Cape follows body. Overlap creates organic flow—everything connects.
6. Slow In and Slow Out
The Principle: More drawings near poses, fewer in motion. Objects accelerate and decelerate—they don't move at constant speed. Application: Spacing charts. Ease into a pose with bunched drawings. Ease out with gradually spreading drawings. The "cushion."
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 77f48a84f38a
animator-traditional is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (80 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 985 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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