manim-video

Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos.

Quality

71%

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Quality

Content

85%

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The content is highly actionable with excellent progressive disclosure and a clearly sequenced, checkpointed workflow. The only weakness is mild verbosity in the aspirational Creative Standard and Creative Divergence prose.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is densely packed with tables, exact commands, and code rather than padded conceptual explanation, but motivational prose ("This is educational cinema. Every frame teaches.") and the Creative Divergence section add tokens Claude does not strictly need.	2 / 3
Actionability	Concrete hex color codes, run_time/wait timing tables, copy-paste Python scene code, and exact Manim/ffmpeg CLI commands make the guidance fully executable and copy-paste ready.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The PLAN->CODE->RENDER->STITCH->AUDIO->REVIEW pipeline is clearly sequenced with an explicit REVIEW checkpoint ('Render preview stills, verify against plan, adjust') providing a feedback loop, plus Critical Implementation Notes and a referenced checklist file.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a concise overview with a Modes table and References table of 14 one-level-deep files, with inline references like 'See references/scene-planning.md'; all referenced paths correspond to real bundle files.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Description

57%

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 specific and distinctive but overly terse, omitting concrete actions and any explicit trigger clause. Adding a 'Use when...' sentence with natural trigger terms would raise completeness and trigger quality.

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Add concrete verbs (create, render, animate, stitch) to move specificity toward the multi-action anchor.

Append an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing natural triggers like 'math animations', 'algorithm visualizations', 'equation derivations', or '3Blue1Brown-style explainer videos'.

Expand 'algo' to 'algorithm visualizations' and add 'explainer videos' for fuller trigger-term coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Quotes "Manim CE animations" and "3Blue1Brown math/algo videos" name the domain and style, but list no concrete verbs like create/render/animate, so it does not reach the multi-action anchor of 3.	2 / 3
Completeness	It states what the skill does (Manim CE animations) but lacks any explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, so per the guideline completeness is capped at 2 with the 'when' only implied.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural terms like "3Blue1Brown", "math", "animations", and "videos" appear, but coverage is terse (e.g. "algo" shorthand) and misses common variations such as algorithm visualizations or equation derivations that live only in the body.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The 3Blue1Brown-style Manim animation niche is specific and unlikely to overlap with other skills, matching the clear-niche anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
Path: skills/creative/manim-video/SKILL.md
Commit: 5be99b6

Reviewed: about 15 hours ago

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