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transitions-polish

Polish and refine existing motion against the transitions.dev motion-token scale — duration, distance, scale, blur, and easing — plus the rules for WHEN each token applies (open/close asymmetry, hover-in vs hover-out, stagger offsets, and intent delays). An add-on to the transitions-dev skill, focused on tuning what already animates rather than adding new transitions. Use when the user asks to "polish my transitions", "refine the motion", "tune the timing / easing", "make the animation feel better / less janky", "tighten the durations", "fix the stagger", "align to the motion tokens", "audit the motion", "review my animations", "scan for ad-hoc transitions", "tokenize my animations", or runs the commands transitions review or transitions polish. Also drives the Refine panel's Small refinement feature. Triggers on "motion polish", "transition polish", "refine motion", "timing feels off", "too slow / too fast", "stagger", "delay", "open close timing", "hover in out".

Quality

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A strong, highly actionable body: token tables with documented usages, quantified heuristics, and two well-sequenced commands with an explicit confirmation gate before batch edits. The main defects are broken bundle references (the cited _root.css and _refine-rules.md files are absent) and mild padding from thrice-repeated doctrine and a speculative 'Future expansion' section.

Suggestions

Ship the referenced bundle files: create _root.css and _refine-rules.md (or fix the paths) so the [./_root.css] and [./_refine-rules.md] links resolve instead of dead-ending.

State the 'match on usage, never on the nearest number' doctrine once in its Core doctrine section and reference it from the review/polish steps instead of repeating it three times.

Drop or shrink the 'Future expansion' section — aspirational roadmap content does not help execute the skill — and add a post-apply verification step to 'transitions polish' (e.g., re-scan the touched files to confirm no off-token values remain).

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Conciseness

The body is lean and table-driven, assuming CSS competence with no concept explanations, but the usage-first doctrine is restated three times ('Always infer the usage first', 'usage first, never nearest number', the polish reminder) and the 'Future expansion' section is speculative padding. Efficient with minor trims available — anchor 4, not the every-token-earns-its-place anchor 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable guidance: exact token values with documented usages, specific scan targets (Tailwind arbitrary values like 'duration-[300ms]'), a concrete output format with example lines ('modal close: 300ms → var(--duration-quick) (150ms)'), and quantified heuristics ('larger than ~40px... pull it toward --distance-base'). Matches the copy-paste-ready top anchor.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Both commands have clear numbered sequences, and polish — a batch edit operation — includes an explicit confirmation checkpoint ('Ask for confirmation before editing') and scope discipline ('Touch only the motion values being polished'). It falls short of anchor 5 only because there is no post-apply verification step (e.g., re-running the audit to confirm the changes landed correctly).

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

References are clearly signaled and one level deep ([_root.css](./_root.css), [_refine-rules.md](./_refine-rules.md)), but neither file exists in the bundle — no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories are present — so every referenced path dead-ends. Broken references plus the ~70 lines of inline token tables (justified for standalone auditing, but still inline) sit between the 'references present but flawed' anchor 3 and the 'minor organization gaps' anchor 4, and the missing files are more than minor.

3 / 5

Total

16

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20

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Description

96%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

An excellent description: concrete multi-dimensional capabilities, explicit what and when clauses, and a comprehensive set of natural trigger phrases including both user language and command names. Its only weaknesses are minor — a few generic trigger terms overlap the companion skill, and the trigger list is stated twice ('Use when...' plus 'Triggers on...'), which pads length without adding information.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions — polish, refine, audit, tune — across five named dimensions (duration, distance, scale, blur, easing) plus higher-order rules (open/close asymmetry, hover-in vs hover-out, stagger, intent delays), with no coverage gaps. This matches the anchor for comprehensive concrete actions rather than the 'minor gaps' anchor below it.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers what ('Polish and refine existing motion against the transitions.dev motion-token scale...') and when ('Use when the user asks to... or runs the commands transitions review or transitions polish'), with concrete trigger phrases — the clear what+when anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Trigger coverage is comprehensive and natural: 'polish my transitions', 'refine the motion', 'tune the timing / easing', 'make the animation feel better / less janky', 'too slow / too fast', 'fix the stagger', plus the command names 'transitions review' and 'transitions polish'. Both explicit request phrasings and command invocations are covered, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It draws an explicit boundary against its sibling ('focused on tuning what already animates rather than adding new transitions'), but generic trigger terms like 'stagger', 'delay', and 'too slow / too fast' could equally fire the parent transitions-dev skill, leaving minor overlap risk rather than minimal.

4 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Relative link issues: 3 missing, 1 suspicious

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

Jakubantalik/transitions.dev

Path

skills/transitions-polish/SKILL.md

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