"Use when someone wants animation in a deck or site: an animated reveal or transition, a line that draws itself, a counting KPI, a baked clip from web animation, advice on how much movement a deck should have, or a surface that feels alive without becoming gimmicky. Authors tasteful, brand-aware motion primitives (staggered reveal, line-draw, count-up, motion-path, scroll-reveal, element morph) under a restraint doctrine. Two modes: embed-live (inline a primitive into a deck or site) and bake (turn a self-contained HTML animation into MP4/GIF/PNG via render_motion, for PowerPoint or PDF). Brand-optional. Not for a narrated or voiced explainer video (format-video-hd), numeric data-viz (format-chart), or structural diagrams (format-diagram)."
Install
npx skillscat add stromy-org/ai4comms-plugin/format-motion Install via the SkillsCat registry.
format-motion — substrate-agnostic motion primitives + restraint doctrine (MCP-hosted skill)
This skill's full instructions are hosted on the stromy-format MCP server. Do not hardcode workflow logic locally — always fetch the live version from the MCP.
Loading instructions
Read the main skill instructions:
→ call thefs_readtool on thestromy-formatMCP withpath="skills/format-motion/SKILL.md".Read it to the end.
fs_readreturns one page at a time. If the result'snext_offset_charsis not null — or the returned text ends in a<<< PARTIAL READ … >>>block — the body is incomplete: callfs_readagain withoffset_charsset to that value and concatenate, repeating until it comes back null. Do not start work on a partial skill body. Hard rules and anti-patterns often sit in the final third, and a partial read fails silently — it looks like a complete skill.Discover reference files (and any other skill assets), then read on demand:
→ callfs_listwithpath="skills/format-motion"(andpath="skills/format-motion/references"),
→ callfs_readwithpath="skills/format-motion/references/<file>".
Follow the instructions returned by the MCP exactly.
This MCP is the only correct path
Produce this skill's output only by following the live SKILL.md fetched above and calling the stromy-format MCP's own tools. Do not substitute a local or identically-named base skill from elsewhere, and do not invent your own output path. A locally-produced or unbranded artifact is wrong output, not a fallback — it bypasses the server-side brand and quality gates.