Text Shimmer — primitive for text reveals (react)

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

A bright highlight sweeps across grey monospace text, like a 'generating…' status label

• Install: npx motion-primitives@latest add text-shimmer
• Registry: motion-primitives · Framework: react · License: MIT
• Docs and preview: https://motion-primitives.com/docs/text-shimmer
• Source: https://github.com/ibelick/motion-primitives/blob/main/components/core/text-shimmer.tsx
• Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-motion-primitives-text-shimmer.mp4?v=12275 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Motion Primitives))
• Time: Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
• Runs: local render, free
• Aspect: any

Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Motion Primitives' Text Shimmer (https://motion-primitives.com/docs/text-shimmer, MIT) for an AI 'thinking' or 'generating' status line in a UI walkthrough, placed where the app would show it. Install with npx motion-primitives@latest add text-shimmer. The highlight is a background-position loop run by Motion with repeat: Infinity, so set backgroundPosition from frame / fps modulo duration (Remotion) or loop the same tween on the paused HyperFrames timeline. Set duration and spread, and color it with the --base-color and --base-gradient-color CSS variables; scale the font up for video.

Used in

• Product launch film
• Notes-app ad
• Text-message story
• CLI & terminal demo
• AI chat & agent demo
• Data story
• Math animation
• Whiteboard & hand-drawn

More text reveals

• Blur In — npx hyperframes add blur-in
• Blur Out Up — npx hyperframes add blur-out-up
• Bottom Up Letters — npx hyperframes add bottom-up-letters
• Caret Swap — npx hyperframes add caret-swap
• Focus Blur Resolve — npx hyperframes add focus-blur-resolve
• Line-by-Line Slide — npx hyperframes add line-by-line-slide