Manim Skill (ManimCE best practices)

Agent rules for 3Blue1Brown-style math animations in Manim Community Edition

README demo video of Manim animations made with the skill

What it does

Best-practice rules for agents writing Manim Community Edition code: scenes, MathTex/LaTeX, 3D, camera and CLI. Companion ManimGL skill in the same repo. 1k+ stars.

Try this prompt

Animate the proof of the Pythagorean theorem as a 3Blue1Brown-style scene.

Keep going in Paradigm

Hands off to Paradigm's animation executor for math explainer clips inside a notebook.

How to install

  1. Click “Copy install prompt” and paste it into your agent. The agent fetches the skill from its source.
  2. Or copy the skill folder from the source into ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or your agent’s skills folder.
  3. Read the skill’s SKILL.md before you run it. Paradigm lists this skill but did not write it.
GitHub stars
★ 1,184
License
MIT
Runs in
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
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