The philosophy underneath Improve Animations, made general. Where the audit skill surveys a codebase’s motion and turns findings into plans, this one is the live consult: taste-training principles (“good taste is trained, not innate”), a required Before/After review-table format, and drop-in, physics-accurate CSS for staggered lists and exit animations that are deliberately faster than their enters.
The review checklist is the most useful piece to steal on its own — eleven specific catches (transition: all, scale(0) entry animations, animation on keyboard actions, hover effects with no pointer: fine guard) each paired with the exact fix, not a vague note to “polish this up.”
Install: same repo as Improve Animations — emilkowalski/skills — copy skills/emil-design-eng/ into .claude/skills/, or npx skills add emilkowalski/skill per the author’s own site.
Gotcha: it opens with a scripted refusal to answer anything until you ask a real question, and that opener name-drops the author’s paid course (animations.dev). Useful context, not a knock on the skill itself, which is free and MIT-licensed.