Overview
slack-gif-creator is an open-source integrations skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by anthropics. Its author describes it as: “Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y f…”. The project has 177k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills`.
What slack-gif-creator does
A toolkit providing utilities and knowledge for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for slack-gif-creator is organised into these sections:
- Slack Requirements
- Core Workflow
- Drawing Graphics
- Working with User-Uploaded Images
- Drawing from Scratch
- Making Graphics Look Good
- Available Utilities
- GIFBuilder (core.gifbuilder)
- Validators (core.validators)
- Easing Functions (core.easing)
- Frame Helpers (core.framecomposer)
- Animation Concepts
Installation
Add slack-gif-creator to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
anthropics has not declared a standard open-source license for this repository (Complete terms in LICENSE.txt). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
Strengths
- Ships in anthropics/skills, an established project with 177,416 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 12,054 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does slack-gif-creator do?
- Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack."
- How do I install slack-gif-creator?
- Run /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/anthropics/skills before installing.
- Is slack-gif-creator free to use?
- slack-gif-creator is publicly available on GitHub, but anthropics has not declared a standard open-source license (Complete terms in LICENSE.txt). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Which agents does slack-gif-creator work with?
- slack-gif-creator lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does slack-gif-creator come from?
- slack-gif-creator ships inside anthropics/skills, a repository that contains 21 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 177,416 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
