motion-polish

motion-polish is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (4,313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An animation and interaction guide for making an app respond smoothly when users click, hover, open panels, or wait for content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding button feedback, hover states, modal and dropdown transitions, loading skeletons, and animated toast notifications.
Why use it?
It helps remove abrupt or distracting state changes that can make a working app feel unfinished. It also covers keeping motion brief and accommodating people who prefer reduced motion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Adding button feedback, hover states, modal and dropdown transitions, loading skeletons, and animated toast notifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/motion-polish
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill motion-polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,313 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 $0.00093 $0.04313
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02157
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00863
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00431

Measured 13d ago against content hash 828bc0691a68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

motion-polish 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 13d 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/motion-polish/SKILL.md · 471 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 471 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Motion & Polish

Animation is the final 10% that makes a functional app feel premium. Apply motion to reinforce spatial relationships, confirm user actions, and smooth state changes. This skill covers what to animate, how to animate it, and — most importantly — what to leave alone.

This skill is for adding motion and animation polish. For visual design (colors, typography, spacing), use beautify. For page layouts and component selection, use ui-patterns. For user flow and navigation design, use ux-design. For a full design audit, use design-review.

Quick Start

Tell AI:

Add polish animations to my app. Apply these in order of impact:
1. Button press feedback (subtle scale on click)
2. Hover states on cards and interactive elements
3. Smooth transitions on modals, dropdowns, and side panels
4. Loading skeletons replacing spinners for content areas
5. Toast notification entrance/exit animations

Use CSS transitions where possible (not JS). Respect prefers-reduced-motion.
Keep all durations under 300ms. Use ease-out for entrances, ease-in for exits.

Workflow

Add motion polish (in priority order):
- [ ] Button press feedback (active:scale-[0.98])
- [ ] Hover states on cards and list items
- [ ] Modal/dropdown entrance transitions (fade + scale from 95%)
- [ ] Loading skeletons instead of spinners
- [ ] Toast notification entrance/exit
- [ ] Staggered list entrance on page load
- [ ] Reduced motion support (prefers-reduced-motion)

Do these in order. Each one is independently valuable. Stop whenever it feels like enough.

Lovable / Replit — paste the Quick Start prompt above. These tools apply Tailwind transitions directly.

Claude Code — use the Quick Start prompt, or point to specific components: "Add hover state animation to the card component in src/components/Card.tsx."


The Restraint Principle

What you don't animate matters more than what you do. If a user notices an animation, it's probably too much. Motion should feel like physics — objects have weight, momentum, and settle into place. It should never feel like a performance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 471 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. 13d ago First seen · 471 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 828bc0691a68

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motion-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 4,313 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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