elegance-sophistication

elegance-sophistication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dylantarre/animation-principles. It costs 23 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of animation guidelines for interfaces that should feel refined and luxurious.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing subtle transitions for premium or high-end brand experiences.
Why use it?
It helps avoid excessive or distracting movement by defining restrained timing, easing, and settling behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing subtle transitions for premium or high-end brand experiences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/elegance-sophistication
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill elegance-sophistication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7bb293c9d5be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elegance-sophistication 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.

skills/06-by-emotional-outcome/elegance-sophistication/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elegance & Sophistication Animation

Create animations that convey refinement, luxury, and understated excellence.

Emotional Goal

Elegance emerges from restrained, perfectly timed motion. Sophistication means animations that are noticed for their quality, not their quantity—subtle excellence over obvious effort.

Disney Principles for Elegance

Squash & Stretch

Extremely minimal (0-5%). Refined objects don't deform—they glide. Preserve perfect proportions throughout motion.

Anticipation

Subtle, refined preparation (100-150ms). A gentle weight shift, not a wind-up. Elegant motion begins smoothly.

Staging

Negative space and restraint. Let elements breathe. Single focal point with generous margins. Less is more.

Straight Ahead Action

Avoid. Elegance requires control and precision. Every frame should be intentional and refined.

Follow Through & Overlapping Action

Graceful, extended settling. Like silk falling. Long, smooth deceleration without bounce or wobble.

Slow In & Slow Out

Extended easing on both ends. Gradual, flowing motion. cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) for refined transitions.

Arc

Sweeping, graceful curves. Like a conductor's baton or a dancer's arm. Beautiful paths, not just endpoints.

Secondary Action

Minimal, purposeful accents. A subtle shadow shift, a gentle highlight. Supporting motion that elevates, not distracts.

Timing

Unhurried but not slow (300-500ms). Time to appreciate the motion. Luxury doesn't rush.

Exaggeration

Almost none (0-10%). Realistic, refined movements. Perfection in subtlety.

Solid Drawing

Impeccable proportions maintained. No distortion. Geometric precision and balance.

Appeal

Clean lines, perfect proportions. Monochromatic or limited palette. Timeless aesthetics.

Timing Recommendations

Element Duration Easing
Fade 300-400ms ease-in-out
Slide 400-500ms ease-out
Scale 350-450ms ease-in-out
Reveal 500-700ms ease-out

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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 · 106 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 7bb293c9d5be

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elegance-sophistication is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (80 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 757 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 2026-09-03.

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