# Manim Skills (3Blue1Brown Style) — workflow skill for explainers

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Plan and code 3Blue1Brown-style math animations: a scene composer plus ManimCE and ManimGL best practices.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Explainers](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/explainers.md)
- **Slug:** `manim-skill`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Adithya S K (community)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- **Requires:** Python with manim or manimgl, ffmpeg, LaTeX for MathTex
- **Cost:** Free — local render
- **Adoption:** 8,678 installs, 1,220 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Three skills for Manim. manim-composer turns a vague concept into a researched scene-by-scene plan (scenes.md with narrative arc, visual elements, narration notes, transitions, palette and implementation order) before any code is written, and two best-practice skills cover the Manim Community Edition and 3b1b's ManimGL APIs (Scene, MathTex, InteractiveScene, camera frames). It is the most-installed Manim skill on skills.sh (8.7K installs across the three).

## Use when

- Plan an educational or math explainer in 3b1b style
- Write or debug ManimCE or ManimGL code

## Not for

- Live-action or AI-generated footage

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add adithya-s-k/manim_skill`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/manim-skill.mp4 — README demo: Claude Code with the skill renders a 3Blue1Brown-style 'Multi-Head Attention' animation (3D attention heads, 'Each head learns to attend to different patterns'), played in the editor's video tab. Cut 40-48 s of 52.6 s. (credit: Adithya S K (manim_skill), https://github.com/adithya-s-k/manim_skill#readme)

## Used for

- [Explainer video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/explainer-video.md): A narrated explainer about a product, a topic or a document, with motion graphics or AI visuals.
- [Animated chart or data video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/data-video.md): Numbers from a CSV or a report as an animated chart: bar race, line, hero number.

## More explainers skills

- [HyperFrames](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes.md): Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- [HyperFrames Slideshow](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-slideshow.md): Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- [Plain-Sight Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-vox-explainer.md): 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- [Remotion Create](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-create.md): Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- [Remotion Maps](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-maps.md): Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- [Higgsfield Video Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-video-explainer.md): Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.

## Run the generation on varg

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt