Show HN: Manim Skills – Claude Code skill for creating 3b1B style animations

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4 months ago

I built this to solve a problem I kept running into: every time I asked Claude Code or Cursor to help with Manim animations, it mixed up APIs between Manim Community Edition and ManimGL (3Blue1Brown’s version), or used deprecated patterns.

This repository packages battle tested best practices and working code examples as “skills” that AI agents can automatically load when you are working with Manim.

Install: npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill

What’s inside: - Separate skills for Manim Community Edition and ManimGL (they are incompatible frameworks) - Working code examples for scenes, animations, 3D, camera control, and LaTeX - Common patterns and pitfalls to avoid

It uses the open skills.sh standard, so it works across Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding tools.

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or Manim in general.