Motion Director Native
The same decisions for React Native and Expo: gestures, springs and haptics.
What it does
Build animations in React Native and Expo, making the decisions in the order that determines whether they feel right, should it animate, which thread it runs on, which properties, spring or timing, how the gesture hands off, how it degrades. Writes the implementation with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, Expo Router and expo-haptics. Use when animating anything in an Expo app, adding gestures, sheets, screen transitions, press feedback or haptics, or fixing motion that stutters on device. For web animation use motion-director.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip motion-director-native.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive motion-director-native.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 Native on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the motion-director-native 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 Native uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the motion-director-native folder into that agent's skills folder, for example .cursor/skills/ or .github/skills/ in your project.
What's inside
The 10 main sections of the SKILL.md, in order.
- Initial Response
- Operating Posture
- Hard Rules
- The Build Sequence
- Setup that silently breaks motion
- 120fps
- Recipes
- Never Ship
- Output
- Tone
In the download: LICENSE, NOTICE.md, RECIPES.md, SKILL.md
Credit and license
Motion Director Native is a renamed, packaged copy of animate-expo 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 Native work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the motion-director-native 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-native folder: its SKILL.md (5,603 words) and its license files. One payment, instant download.
Who made Motion Director Native?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of animate-expo by Emil Kowalski, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.