# dashmotion

Generates dark-themed animated SVG diagrams as standalone HTML files. Useful for showing architecture and workflows with moving request dots and pulsing connectors.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 181
- Author: csthink
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/csthink/dashmotion/tree/HEAD/skills/dashmotion/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dashmotion

## What it does

The skill builds single-file HTML diagrams with dark themes and vector animations. Movement relies entirely on native SVG and CSS. Connector lines pulse via `stroke-dashoffset` keyframes, while moving light dots represent in-flight requests using `<animateMotion>`. The output weighs only a few kilobytes and loops continuously in any browser without external font dependencies.

It operates in two modes. Flow mode handles ordered steps, branching logic, and state transitions. Architecture mode renders components, service boundaries, and system topology. It also accepts Mermaid input, specifically `flowchart`, `graph`, and `stateDiagram-v2` blocks. Other Mermaid diagram formats will not render.

Layout calculation relies on an included standard-library script, `scripts/layout.py`. The assistant converts your prompt into semantic graph JSON, leaving coordinate math and orthogonal line routing to Python. Generating diagrams through the automated layout pipeline requires local `python3`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add csthink/dashmotion --skill dashmotion -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add csthink/dashmotion --skill dashmotion -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add csthink/dashmotion --skill dashmotion -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install csthink/dashmotion dashmotion
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add csthink/dashmotion --skill dashmotion -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/csthink/dashmotion --path skills/dashmotion
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add csthink/dashmotion --skill dashmotion -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/csthink/dashmotion/tree/HEAD/skills/dashmotion/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build animated architecture diagrams for documentation or product landing pages
- convert Mermaid source code into interactive animated HTML files
- visualize request journeys across microservices using moving SVG dots
- route orthogonal flowchart connectors without manual coordinate calculations

## Example prompts
- Create a dark-themed animated architecture diagram showing requests flowing through Gateway, Auth, and Billing.
- Convert this Mermaid snippet into an animated HTML diagram: `graph TD; A[Cart] --> B[Payment] --> C[Shipping]`
- Generate an animated flowchart for our deployment pipeline with pulsing connector paths.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: dashmotion
version: 2.2.4
description: 'Create dark-themed, animated technical diagrams as self-contained HTML+SVG files — flowcharts whose connectors visibly flow, and architecture diagrams where requests travel as light dots through the system (Diagrid/Temporal landing-page style). Use this skill whenever the user asks for a flowchart, workflow, pipeline, process diagram, state machine, system architecture, infrastructure, cloud, microservices, or network topology diagram — and especially when they mention "animated", "flowing", "dynamic", "alive", "GIF-like", or want a diagram for a landing page, README, docs, or product demo. Also use it to convert Mermaid source (a mermaid code block or .mmd file) into an animated diagram — "animate this mermaid", "make this flowchart move". Prefer this over static diagram output whenever the diagram represents anything that moves: requests, events, data, jobs, messages, or control flow.'
---

# Dashmotion

Create professional animated technical diagrams as single self-contained HTML files. The name is the implementation: `stroke-dash`offset animation + `animateMotion` — that's all there is. Output is vector, loops forever, weighs a few KB, and opens in any browser.

## Step 1 — Pick the mode

| User wants | Mode | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Steps, sequence, branching, parallel execution, state transitions ("what happens, in what order") | **Flow** | `references/flow-mode.md` + `resources/template-flow.html` |
| Components, services, infrastructure, containment, topology ("what the system is made of") | **Architecture** | `references/architecture-mode.md` + `resources/template-architecture.html` |

Mixed request ("show our microservices AND how an order flows through them") → Architecture mode; the animated request path *is* the flow. Only produce two separate files if the process has branching logic that the topology can't express.

**Mermaid input** — if the request contains Mermaid source (a ```mermaid block, a `.mmd` file, or pasted code), ALSO read `references/mermaid-input.md` before anything else. Supported: `flowchart`/`graph` and `stateDiagram-v2`; other diagram types are unsupported — say so and offer alternatives. The mode routing above still applies (mermaid is syntax, not semantics), and layout is always recomputed top-down regardless of the source's declared direction.
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