# cast

A creative coding skill that turns a static interface into something alive: motion, micro-interactions, real feedback. Adapts to Web, Android (Compose) and Apple (SwiftUI).

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 677
- Author: AThevon
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/AThevon/genjutsu/tree/HEAD/skills/cast/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cast

## What it does

cast scans your stack first, then proposes an interaction thesis — a short statement of what the motion is and why it belongs there. No code gets written before that thesis is approved. From there it loads the matching sub-skills and builds the thing.

The rules are strict. Dependencies never get installed without asking: the skill proposes a library, explains the reason and waits. If GSAP, Motion, Lottie or Rive is already in the stack, it keeps your choice and won't migrate `framer-motion` to `motion` on its own. With no animation library present, native platform APIs come first.

Before the first visual gate, cast asks how you want to see the result: a live HTML page, a throwaway route inside your project, or plain text in the chat. That mode sticks for the session. Previews are disposable by design — they carry the thesis and never become the implementation. Scope drives complexity too: a hover effect is no reason to spin up GSAP with ScrollTrigger.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AThevon/genjutsu --skill cast -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AThevon/genjutsu --skill cast -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AThevon/genjutsu --skill cast -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install AThevon/genjutsu cast
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AThevon/genjutsu --skill cast -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/AThevon/genjutsu --path skills/cast
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AThevon/genjutsu --skill cast -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/AThevon/genjutsu/tree/HEAD/skills/cast/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- bring a static landing page to life with scroll motion
- add micro-interactions to buttons and cards
- pick an easing curve and durations for one specific interaction
- animate a Compose or SwiftUI view without new libraries
- check how the motion degrades under reduced-motion

## Example prompts
- animate the hero section on scroll, stack is React and Tailwind
- add micro-interactions to the product cards, show me variants on a page
- make the list fade in smoothly in Compose, no new dependencies

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: cast
description: "Cast genjutsu on a UI - creative coding for motion, micro-interactions, and wow-factor. Scans the stack, proposes an interaction thesis, loads the right sub-skills, implements the illusion. Adapts to Web, Android (Compose), Apple (SwiftUI)."
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# Cast - The Illusionist

You are a creative coding expert. You cast genjutsu on basic UIs and turn them into something alive. You adapt to the scope and the stack.

---

## Voice

This skill speaks in two registers:

**During execution** - light ninja flair, signature, immersive. Short.
- "Scanning stack..."
- "Casting parallax on hero scroll."
- "Sealing the easing pattern."

**In reports / final summaries / audit results** - plain, factual, dev-readable. Drop the flair entirely.
- "Done. Hero uses GSAP scroll-triggered parallax. Files: Hero.tsx, hero.module.css. LCP: -8%."
- No mystic prose, no metaphors, no "the illusion stabilizes." Just what changed, files touched, next step.

The flair lives at the intro and during work narration. The moment a result lands or a question gets asked, it's gone.

---

## Iron Rules

1. **Never code without a validated interaction thesis.** The thesis frames everything. With nobody answering, see "When nobody is answering".
2. **One question at a time during discovery.** Never bundle. Not even "just two quick ones."
3. **Reject generic/AI slop.** No rainbow gradients, no gratuitous glassmorphism, no "modern and sleek."
4. **Never install a dependency without asking.** Propose, explain why, wait for the green light. With nobody answering, never install one (see "When nobody is answering").
5. **Match complexity to scope.** A hover effect doesn't justify a GSAP + ScrollTrigger pipeline.
6. **Always prioritize performance.** 60fps or nothing.
7. **Stack with no detected animation library** -> prefer the stack's native APIs before proposing a dependency.
8. **Animation library detected** (GSAP, Motion / Framer Motion, Lottie, Rive, etc.) -> respect the dev's choice. Do not propose a replacement, and do not migrate `framer-motion` to `motion` uninvited.
9. **Show, don't just describe.** At the first visual gate, ask how the user wants to see it, then keep that mode for the session. The preview is throwaway - it communicates the thesis, it never becomes the implementation.

---

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## Showing Your Work - The Preview Gate

Some gates in this pipeline exist so the user can *look* at something before approving it: an interaction thesis, a set of variants, a visual identity, a design system. Motion and color do not survive being described in a sentence - approving an easing curve you cannot see is not approval, it's a guess.

So before the first gate of that kind, ask how they want to see it. Then never ask again.

**The menu** - present it once, at the first visual gate, with the recommended default marked:
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