# brand-intake

A setup skill that interviews you and reads 3 to 5 reference frames, then writes brand.md and MOTION.md — the files every other skill in the pack pulls colours, type and timing from.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 412
- Author: charlie947
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/charlie947/motion-graphics-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-11
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/brand-intake

## What it does

Run it once per brand. The skill opens with four questions: the brand name and what you do, who is watching, what you promote with a real link, and which feelings should land in the first second. Then a second batch: hex codes, font names and logo files, 3 to 5 reference frames dropped into a folder called `examples`, and one thing your motion must never do. A blank answer gets asked once more, then the skill moves on. It does not fill gaps with guesses.

Two files land in the project root. `brand.md` stays under 300 words and covers name, audience, offer, feeling, assets and bans. `MOTION.md` is written from the frames: every colour with its job, fonts and type sizes, how things enter and leave, frame rate and easing, texture, five named bans, and one example described shot by shot. Where a frame does not tell enough, the file says ASK ME instead of inventing a value. Hex codes you typed in `brand.md` beat colours sampled from a frame — a colour read off a JPEG drifts a few points, so check that if you already have a brand guide.

The last step adds a block to `CLAUDE.md` telling the agent to read `MOTION.md` in full before designing or animating anything. The line about the file setting the look and not the ambition is load-bearing: without it the first generation comes out far too polite. Until both files exist, no other skill in the pack may call its result on-brand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill brand-intake -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/brand-intake/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill brand-intake -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill brand-intake -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install charlie947/motion-graphics-skills brand-intake
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill brand-intake -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --path skills/brand-intake
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill brand-intake -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/charlie947/motion-graphics-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/brand-intake/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn a short interview into a project brand guide
- convert reference frames into motion rules
- lock colours and fonts before animation starts
- stop the agent from picking its own palette
- spell out timing and easing for any AI to read

## Example prompts
- run brand intake for my brand
- build my motion design system from the frames in examples
- write my MOTION.md and add the read-first rule to CLAUDE.md

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: brand-intake
description: The setup step every other skill in this pack reads. A short interview plus 3 to 5 reference frames becomes two files in your project, brand.md (who you are, what you sell, your assets) and MOTION.md (your colours, type, timing and motion rules), plus a rule in CLAUDE.md so Claude reads them before it animates anything. Use at the start of any motion project, or when someone says "set up my brand", "brand intake", "build my motion design system", "make it look like my brand", "onboard me", "write my MOTION.md" or drops a batch of brand frames into chat.
---

# Brand intake

Every other skill in this pack reads the two files this one writes. Without them, Claude picks its own colours, its own type and its own idea of motion. Run this once per brand.

## Start straight away

When someone asks for this, your first message is the Batch 1 questions. No summary of the skill, no preamble.

## Step 1: The interview, in two batches

**Batch 1.** Ask these four together, then wait:
1. What is the brand called, and what do you do, in one line?
2. Who is it for? One sentence on the person watching.
3. What do you sell or promote in your videos? The offer, the product or the newsletter, with its real link.
4. What should people feel in the first second? Pick up to three: calm, premium, playful, urgent, technical, warm, bold.

**Batch 2.** Then ask these three, and wait:
5. Your colours as hex codes, your font names, and your logo files (SVG or PNG, attached). No hex codes? Say "sample them from my site" and give the link.
6. 3 to 5 reference frames: screenshots of motion you already like, from Dribbble, Pinterest or your own work. Put them in a folder called `examples`.
7. One thing your motion must never do.

If an answer is blank, ask for it once more, then move on. Never fill a gap with a guess.

## Step 2: Write brand.md

Save it in the project root, under 300 words:

```
# Brand

## Name and what we do
## Audience
## What we promote (with the real link)
## The feeling
## Assets
Colours (hex, typed by me or sampled from a named source), fonts, logo file names
## Never
```

## Step 3: Write MOTION.md from the frames

Read every frame in `examples`, then write MOTION.md with this brief to yourself:

```
````
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