after-effects

after-effects is a skill for Claude Code from iart-ai/motion-design-skills. It costs 242 tokens per session (1,822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide and asset library for Adobe After Effects, software for creating and compositing motion graphics and video. It provides expressions, rig setups, export checklists, troubleshooting steps, naming schemes, and automation scripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or debug expressions, control layers with sliders and nulls, build templates, export to Lottie or Media Encoder, improve project organisation, and automate work with JSX scripts.
Why use it?
It gives ready-to-use help for common After Effects tasks and problems, such as slow previews, missing footage, unsuitable export settings, or broken expressions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the motion-design-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or debug expressions, control layers with sliders and nulls, build templates, export to Lottie or Media Encoder, improve project organisation, and automate work with JSX scripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iart-ai/motion-design-skills/after-effects
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 iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill after-effects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install motion-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 242 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,822 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 23 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 Jun 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 $0.00242 $0.01822
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00182

Measured 11d ago against content hash 161bbd861954, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

after-effects 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/after-effects/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

After Effects

After Effects is GUI software, so this skill delivers knowledge and ready-to-paste assets — expressions, rig setups, export checklists, diagnostic flows, naming schemes, and ExtendScript — rather than a rendered file. It is a hub covering four domains; route to the matching reference for depth and complete recipes.

Routing

If the user wants to… Go to
Write/debug an expression, rig sliders & nulls, build a MOGRT, export to Lottie references/expressions.md (deep cookbook in references/expression-library.md)
Choose a codec/container, export with alpha, fix a black background, set bitrate, recover H.264 references/export-recipes.md
Fix slow/laggy previews, slow renders, crashes, freezes, out-of-memory references/performance-triage.md
Organize the project, relink missing footage, set naming/folders, batch-automate with .jsx references/project-hygiene.md

The .jsx automation scripts live in scripts/.

Expressions & rigging

Expressions are JavaScript evaluated on the property they are pasted on; value is that property's value, time is comp time in seconds, and index, thisLayer, thisComp are in scope. An expression overrides keyframes unless it incorporates value.

wiggle(2, 30);            // 2 wiggles/sec, amplitude 30 (property units)
loopOut("cycle");         // repeat keyframed range forever; "pingpong" / "offset" / "continue"
seedRandom(index, true);  // stable-but-unique per layer (timeless) before random()/wiggle()
thisComp.layer("Lead").transform.position.valueAtTime(time - 0.2 * index);  // staggered echo

Inertial bounce (overshoot/settle after the last keyframe) and the full loop/wiggle/rigging set are in references/expressions.md.

Rig controllable motion: add a null with Slider / Checkbox / Color / Angle / Point control effects, then reference them and parent transforms to drive many layers from one.

ctrl = thisComp.layer("Controls");
amt  = ctrl.effect("Intensity")("Slider");   // Checkbox → 1/0, Color → [r,g,b,a]
value * amt;

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 85 lines · 242 tokens per session scan A 161bbd861954

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after-effects is a skill published in the GitHub repository iart-ai/motion-design-skills (28 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 242 tokens to every session and 1,822 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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