Motion Director
Builds an animation in the right order: whether to animate, then curve, timing and exit.
What it does
Build an animation from scratch, making the decisions in the order that determines whether it feels right, should it animate at all, what purpose, which tool, which properties, which curve and duration, how it interrupts, how it exits. Writes the implementation. Use when asked to animate something, add motion, make a component feel alive, or build a transition. For critiquing existing motion use motion-review; for auditing a whole codebase use motion-audit.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip motion-director.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive motion-director.zip -DestinationPath $HOME\.claude\skills- Start a new Claude Code session so it sees the skill.
- Ask in plain words, for example: "Use Motion Director on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the motion-director folder if your computer added an extra folder.
- In Claude.ai, open Settings, then Capabilities, and upload it under Skills.
- Turn the skill on and ask Claude to use it.
Motion Director uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the motion-director folder into that agent's skills folder, for example .cursor/skills/ or .github/skills/ in your project.
What's inside
The 8 main sections of the SKILL.md, in order.
- Initial Response
- Operating Posture
- Hard Rules
- The Build Sequence
- Recipes
- Never Ship
- Output
- Tone
In the download: LICENSE, NOTICE.md, RECIPES.md, SKILL.md
Credit and license
Motion Director is a renamed, packaged copy of animate by Emil Kowalski (github.com/emilkowalski/skills), used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.
Questions
Does Motion Director work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the motion-director folder as a zip in Settings under Capabilities. It also works in other agents that support Agent Skills, like Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot.
What do I get?
A zip with the motion-director folder: its SKILL.md (3,481 words) and its license files. One payment, instant download.
Who made Motion Director?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of animate by Emil Kowalski, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.