Manim Skills (3Blue1Brown Style) — workflow skill for explainers
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.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.
Plan and code 3Blue1Brown-style math animations: a scene composer plus ManimCE and ManimGL best practices.
- Type: Workflow · Explainers
- 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: A narrated explainer about a product, a topic or a document, with motion graphics or AI visuals.
- Animated chart or data video: Numbers from a CSV or a report as an animated chart: bar race, line, hero number.
More explainers skills
- HyperFrames: Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- HyperFrames Slideshow: Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- Plain-Sight Explainer: 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- Remotion Create: Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- Remotion Maps: Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- Higgsfield Video Explainer: Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- 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