Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill emotional-narrativegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principlesWrote this? Show the measurements
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- Snyk pass
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 | $0.00038 | $0.00676 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00338 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00135 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
emotional-narrative 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 — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Emotional Narrative
Think like a storyteller who draws. Every movement is a sentence. Every pause is punctuation. You're not animating shapes—you're animating feelings.
Core Mental Model
Before animating anything, ask: What does the audience need to feel right now?
The same walk cycle can convey confidence, defeat, nervousness, or joy. Motion is emotion made visible.
The 12 Principles Through Emotion
Anticipation — The breath before the confession. Anticipation isn't just physical preparation; it's emotional setup. The audience leans in because they sense something is coming.
Staging — Direct the emotional spotlight. What matters most in this moment? Everything else recedes. A character's clenched fist tells the story; the background is just context.
Timing — Emotion lives in duration. A quick glance says curiosity. A lingering look says longing. The same motion, different timing, completely different feeling.
Exaggeration — Amplify truth, not falsehood. A sad character doesn't just frown—their whole body sinks. Exaggeration makes internal states external and readable.
Appeal — Characters must be emotionally accessible. We connect with vulnerability, desire, struggle. Even villains need appeal—we must find them fascinating to watch.
Secondary Action — Supporting emotions. A character says they're fine while their hands fidget. Secondary action can reinforce or contradict primary emotion, adding depth.
Follow Through & Overlapping Action — Emotional momentum. Feelings don't stop on a dime. After a shock, the body keeps processing. After joy, the smile lingers.
Slow In & Slow Out — Emotional transitions. We don't snap from happy to sad. Ease into new emotions. Let the audience travel with the character.
Arcs — Emotional gestures flow. A reaching hand follows a yearning arc. Angular, broken motion reads as distress or mechanical coldness.
Squash & Stretch — Emotional elasticity. Joyful characters feel bouncy. Depressed characters feel heavy and compressed. The body reflects the inner state.
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 · 59 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 426b9b468e73
emotional-narrative is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (80 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 676 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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