gradient-text

gradient-text is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexu-io/motion-anything. It costs 51 tokens per session (484 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A CSS effect that slowly moves a brand-colored gradient through one short headline or phrase. With reduced motion enabled, it uses a solid color instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for highlighting a hero word, short headline, brand name, or key metric.
Why use it?
It adds emphasis to a key phrase while avoiding animated or low-contrast styling in longer text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for highlighting a hero word, short headline, brand name, or key metric.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nexu-io/motion-anything/gradient-text
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 nexu-io/motion-anything --skill gradient-text
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/motion-anything

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 484 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00051 $0.00484
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00242
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00048

Measured 5d ago against content hash df7bd367eb49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gradient-text 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 5d 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.

recipes/web/gradient-text/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

gradient-text

A gradient that drifts through a headline. Part of motion-anything; obeys MOTION-SPEC.md. Technique popularized by Magic UI, reimplemented dependency-free (pure CSS).

When to use it

  • One hero word / short headline / brand name / key metric you want to feel premium.

When NOT to use it (restraint)

  • Body copy or long text — it hurts readability and contrast. One short phrase per view.
  • When guaranteed color contrast is required for accessibility.

How to apply

  1. Copy gradient-text.css into the project and link it.
  2. Wrap the phrase:
    <h1><span class="gradient-text">motion, anything</span></h1>
    
  3. Set brand colors via --g1/--g2/--g3; tune the duration (default 6s).

Accessibility & performance

  • Under prefers-reduced-motion the drift stops and the text renders in a solid --g1 color.
  • Animates background-position of a text-clipped gradient — GPU-safe.

Framework notes

  • Pure CSS; works in any framework. Keep the base --g1 readable as the reduced-motion fallback.
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 56 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A df7bd367eb49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gradient-text is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexu-io/motion-anything (763 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 484 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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