What is notebook.create_animation?

A notebook workflow that turns an ipywidget interaction function into an animation by varying its inputs and saving image frames.

It is for creating visual demonstrations from interactive Python notebook plots.

It removes the repetitive work of preparing parameter values, frame output, and animation-generation code.

notebook.create_animation — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add gpsaggese/helpers --skill notebook.create_animation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 229 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00229
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00092
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00046
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00023

Measured yesterday against content hash c3cec743ebe8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebook.create_animation 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

notebook.create_animation — 100% identical, 0 lines differ

.claude/skills/notebook.create_animation/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Given the function passed that can go in ipywidget.interact() create an animation using the template below:

# Parameters for video generation.
n_steps = 11
n_samples_fixed = 300
dependence_values = np.linspace(0.0, 1.0, n_steps)

# Prepare values list for generate_animation.
values = []
for val in dependence_values:
    values.append({"dependence": val, "n_samples": n_samples_fixed})

# Directory to save frames.
dst_dir = "./figures/Lesson94_Joint_Entropy_video"

# Generate animation frames with fixed dimensions.
ut.generate_animation(
    utils.plot_joint_entropy_interactive,
    values,
    dst_dir,
    incremental=False,
    figsize=(20, 5),
    dpi=150
)

Conventions

Always follow the conventions and guidelines in .claude/skills/notebook.rules.md

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.

yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c3cec743ebe8

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notebook.create_animation is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 229 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-06.

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