stick-figure

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By artemnovitckii/claude-animation-skills (GitHub) · coding · 712 stars · scanned at commit 5dbea55

Makes a code-animated stick-figure explainer reel (9:16, 30 to 45 s) from a question or topic. A bright cartoon world with thick outlines, stick people with big white heads and faces, constant camera motion, whip transitions, 1 to 2 word captions, a playful underscore and cartoon sound effects, all generated in code and timed to the voiceover word by word. Use when the user runs /stick-figure or asks for a stick-figure, stickman or cartoon "what if" explainer.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 2 places.

skills/stick-figure/SKILL.md, line 23SKILL_DIR="<base directory of this skill>"
skills/stick-figure/engine/tools/render.js, line 4const { spawn } = require('child_process');

Changes files outside its own folder

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Found in 1 place.

skills/stick-figure/SKILL.md, line 29Needs ffmpeg, Node and Python 3.9+. To see the example: `cp -r "$ENGINE/template" ~/reels/pirate && bash "$ENGINE/make.sh" ~/reels/pirate`.

Connects to the internet

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Found in 3 places.

skills/stick-figure/engine/tools/tts_elevenlabs.py, line 8import json, os, sys, urllib.request, urllib.error
skills/stick-figure/engine/tools/tts_elevenlabs.py, line 34req = urllib.request.Request(
skills/stick-figure/engine/tools/tts_elevenlabs.py, line 38with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180) as r:

Can call paid AI services billed to you

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Found in 1 place.

skills/stick-figure/engine/tools/tts_elevenlabs.py, line 35f'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice}?output_format=mp3_44100_128',

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (coding) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'stick-figure' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'stick-figure' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named stick-figure already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/artemnovitckii/claude-animation-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '5dbea55c23aa6a5c93dc3cfb5583840513b56b94' -- 'skills/stick-figure' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/stick-figure' ~/.agents/skills/'stick-figure' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'stick-figure' ~/.claude/skills/'stick-figure' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`5dbea55`	70