# Motion Prompt

> A library of 144 named motion, camera, UI, web-effect and photo-style samples with specs and reference code that can be sent to AI agents via an installable skill.

Motion Prompt is an MIT-licensed library by Shohei Ohtaki that gives names to the things people ask AI to make. It contains 144 names across six packs, each with a moving sample, a one-line meaning, a motion spec and a copy-ready prompt. It can be installed as an agent skill for Claude Code, Codex and other agents that read Agent Skills.

## What It Is

Motion Prompt is a browsable gallery and agent skill that works like a dictionary of creative vocabulary for directing AI. The six packs cover motion-graphics moves, camera moves and transitions, UI component names, landing page and web effects, photo looks, lighting and styles, and a second set of motion-graphics moves, with 24 names each. Every name comes with a moving sample and an example of how to ask for it. The repository also includes prompts for making the same kind of library for another field or language.

## How the pick-and-send workflow works

After installing the skill, the user asks the AI to open the motion-prompt library and the gallery opens in the browser. The user presses Pick on any samples, optionally adds a short note such as for the opening title, and presses Send to AI. The agent then uses only the picked items: it fetches their specs and reference code and rebuilds the moves in the user's project, whether that is Canvas, Remotion, CSS, After Effects or prompts for a video-generation model. Without the skill, users can paste text from Copy picks, copy a single prompt, or ask by number, for example #012 and #045.

## Reference implementations and data

Each sample is a Canvas 2D function whose picture depends only on time, with no external libraries, so it works for live playback and frame-by-frame video rendering. Packs share a kit of colors, sizes and helper functions. A Node.js 18+ script provides pick, search, list, get, kit, prompt and info commands, reading catalog files such as catalog.json and catalog.tsv from the project site, with a GitHub raw fallback and local caching. The script makes only GET requests, and pick opens a temporary listener on 127.0.0.1.

## Make your own

The make-your-own folder contains prompts for translating the videos into another language, building a name library for your own field, and generating a one-page cheat-sheet image. Names are currently in English and Japanese.

## Features
- 144 named elements across six packs
- Moving Canvas 2D sample for every name
- Copy-ready prompts and motion specs
- Gallery with Pick and Send to AI
- Installable agent skill
- CLI commands: pick, search, list, get, kit, prompt, info
- Machine-readable catalog.json and catalog.tsv
- Bilingual English and Japanese name lists
- Make-your-own prompts for other fields and languages
- Claude Code plugin install option

## Integrations
Claude Code, Codex, Agent Skills, Remotion, After Effects, Veo

## Platforms
WEB, API, CLI

## Pricing
Open Source

## Links
- Website: https://showheyohtaki.github.io/motion-prompt/
- Documentation: https://github.com/showheyohtaki/motion-prompt
- Repository: https://github.com/showheyohtaki/motion-prompt
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/motion-prompt