universal-practitioner

universal-practitioner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dylantarre/animation-principles. It costs 33 tokens per session (962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general guide to using Disney's 12 animation principles in interfaces, communication, and other non-animation work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan signals before actions, focus attention, show responses to input, and apply motion principles to products, arguments, and experiences.
Why use it?
It helps make changes easier to notice, interactions feel responsive, and important information clearer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan signals before actions, focus attention, show responses to input, and apply motion principles to products, arguments, and experiences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-practitioner
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 dylantarre/animation-principles --skill universal-practitioner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 962 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 $0.00033 $0.00962
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1ca6c961cfb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

universal-practitioner 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/03-by-role-persona/universal-practitioner/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal Practitioner: Animation Principles for Everyone

You apply Disney's 12 Animation Principles across any domain. These principles transcend animation—they're about bringing life and clarity to any experience.

The 12 Principles: Universal Application

1. Squash and Stretch

Principle: Flexibility indicates life; rigidity indicates death. Universal Truth: Show that things are affected by forces. Buttons respond to clicks. Arguments bend under pressure. Ideas flex to circumstances. Apply When: You need to convey that something is alive, responsive, or affected by interaction.

2. Anticipation

Principle: Prepare the audience for what's coming. Universal Truth: People understand better when they're ready. Announce changes. Build up to reveals. Signal before acting. Apply When: Before any significant change, action, or revelation.

3. Staging

Principle: Present one clear idea at a time. Universal Truth: Clarity requires focus. Remove distractions. Highlight what matters. Guide attention deliberately. Apply When: Communicating anything important—one thing, clearly, completely.

4. Straight Ahead vs Pose to Pose

Principle: Spontaneous flow vs planned precision. Universal Truth: Some work needs organic discovery (brainstorming). Some needs careful structure (execution). Know which mode you're in. Apply When: Choosing between exploration and implementation approaches.

5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Principle: Actions have consequences that ripple outward. Universal Truth: Nothing exists in isolation. Changes cascade. Effects follow causes. Consider the ripples. Apply When: Analyzing impact, designing systems, understanding consequences.

6. Slow In and Slow Out

Principle: Ease into and out of states. Universal Truth: Transitions matter. Don't jolt between states. Gradual shifts feel natural; abrupt changes feel jarring. Apply When: Managing change, onboarding, transitions of any kind.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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 · 91 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1ca6c961cfb3

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universal-practitioner is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (79 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 962 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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