# GSAP Plugins — guide skill for animation & motion graphics

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Official GSAP plugins guide, incl. SplitText chars/words/lines with masks and re-splitting once fonts load.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Animation & motion graphics](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/animation.md)
- **Slug:** `gsap-plugins`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** GSAP (GreenSock) (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/greensock/gsap-skills/tree/main/skills/gsap-plugins
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- **Requires:** The gsap npm package (all plugins included)
- **Cost:** Free — GSAP is free under Webflow's Standard 'no charge' license
- **Adoption:** 67,700 installs, 17,221 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

GreenSock's official skill for GSAP plugins: registration, SplitText, ScrambleText, DrawSVG, MorphSVG and MotionPath, Flip, Draggable and Inertia, Observer, CustomEase and GSDevTools. For kinetic type it documents `SplitText.create()` with chars, words and lines, line/word/char masks, `aria` handling, and `autoSplit` with `onSplit()` so text re-splits after fonts finish loading, plus `font-kerning: none` to stop glyphs shifting when split into characters. It states that every plugin, including the formerly Club-only SplitText, is free in the public `gsap` package with no auth token or private registry. ScrollTrigger, core tweens and React each have their own GSAP skills.

## Use when

- Split text into characters, words or lines for staggered reveals (SplitText)
- Scramble or decode text effects (ScrambleText)
- SVG draw-on, morphing or motion paths
- Register and use any GSAP plugin correctly

## Not for

- Scroll-linked animation (use gsap-scrolltrigger)
- Core tweens and timelines (use gsap-core and gsap-timeline)
- Splitting SVG <text>: SplitText does not support it

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add greensock/gsap-skills --skill gsap-plugins -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add greensock/gsap-skills --skill gsap-plugins -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add greensock/gsap-skills --skill gsap-plugins -a cursor`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/gsap-plugins.mp4 — Intro of the official SplitText Walkthrough embedded in the SplitText docs: text split into characters, words and lines and animated, then more SplitText effects (14-26 s) (credit: GSAP (GSAP Learning), https://gsap.com/docs/v3/Plugins/SplitText/)

## More animation & motion graphics skills

- [Day in My Life](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-day-in-my-life.md): A 60–75 s hand-drawn ink film of your agent's day with you, built from local Claude Code history, scored for strings.
- [p5 Paint Animation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-p5-paint-animation.md): Handwriting that writes itself, photos that paint themselves and clips repainted as living paintings, in p5.js code.
- [Session Story](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-session-story.md): A 40–70 s watercolor film of a typical session with your agent, told in your real messages, with its own score.
- [Remotion Markup](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-markup.md): Write Remotion markup that animates well: timing, transitions, motion blur, effects, audio, fonts and 3D.
- [Motion AI Kit](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/motion-ai-kit.md): Write production-grade UI animation with Motion or CSS: best practices, docs search, springs, perf audits.
- [Motion Design](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/lottiefiles-motion-design.md): Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.