manim-video

Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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The content is an excellent, dense, executable skill body with strong progressive disclosure and copy-paste-ready guidance. The only minor gap is a slightly less formal validate-fix-retry loop in the REVIEW step.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and directive, assuming Claude's competence: dense tables for palettes, timing, and typography, plus tight code snippets, with no padding explaining what Manim or LaTeX is.	5 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready code and commands across setup, scene coding, rendering, stitching, and preview stills, with concrete right/wrong snippets for common pitfalls.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clearly sequenced PLAN-CODE-RENDER-STITCH-AUDIO-REVIEW pipeline with a REVIEW verification step and preview stills, though the review loop is described more loosely than a full validate-fix-retry checklist.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is a clear overview with a well-signaled, one-level-deep references table; every referenced file exists, and detail is appropriately split out into 14 reference files.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Description

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

The description is distinct and names the domain well but is too terse, omitting concrete actions and any "Use when" trigger guidance. Adding a trigger clause and a couple of concrete verbs would lift it materially.

Suggestions

Add a "Use when..." clause naming user-requested triggers (e.g., animated explanations, math animations, algorithm visualizations, 3Blue1Brown-style videos).

Replace the minimal noun phrase with concrete verbs (e.g., "Creates and renders" instead of just naming animations).

Include common synonyms and a file cue (e.g., "video," "visualize," ".mp4") to broaden natural trigger coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ("Manim CE animations") and output style ("3Blue1Brown math/algo videos") but lists no concrete actions such as create, render, or animate, matching the anchor where the domain is named but actions are minimal.	2 / 5
Completeness	Has a clear "what" (Manim CE animations in 3Blue1Brown style) but no "when" / "Use when" trigger clause; per the judging guidelines a missing trigger clause caps completeness at 3.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural terms like "animations," "math," "algo," and "3Blue1Brown," but misses common synonyms such as "video," "explain," or "visualize" and any file extensions, fitting the anchor of relevant but incomplete keyword coverage.	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Manim CE plus 3Blue1Brown framing is a distinct niche with clear, specific triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	13 / 20 Passed

Validation

81%

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Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
Path: skills/creative/manim-video/SKILL.md
Commit: 2635035

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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