Manim video
Skill goharabbas321/zeoel-framework/.agents/skills/zeoel/skills/manim-video
Build reusable Manim explainers for technical concepts, graphs, system diagrams, and product walkthroughs, then hand off to the wider ECC video stack if needed. Use when the user wants a clean animated explainer rather than a generic talking-head script.From its SKILL.md
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Manim Video
Use Manim for technical explainers where motion, structure, and clarity matter more than photorealism.
When to Activate
- the user wants a technical explainer animation
- the concept is a graph, workflow, architecture, metric progression, or system diagram
- the user wants a short product or launch explainer for X or a landing page
- the visual should feel precise instead of generically cinematic
Tool Requirements
manimCLI for scene renderingffmpegfor post-processing if neededvideo-editingfor final assembly or polishremotion-video-creationwhen the final package needs composited UI, captions, or additional motion layers
Default Output
- short 16:9 MP4
- one thumbnail or poster frame
- storyboard plus scene plan
Workflow
- Define the core visual thesis in one sentence.
- Break the concept into 3 to 6 scenes.
- Decide what each scene proves.
- Write the scene outline before writing Manim code.
- Render the smallest working version first.
- Tighten typography, spacing, color, and pacing after the render works.
- Hand off to the wider video stack only if it adds value.
Scene Planning Rules
- each scene should prove one thing
- avoid overstuffed diagrams
- prefer progressive reveal over full-screen clutter
- use motion to explain state change, not just to keep the screen busy
- title cards should be short and loaded with meaning
Network Graph Default
For social-graph and network-optimization explainers:
- show the current graph before showing the optimized graph
- distinguish low-signal follow clutter from high-signal bridges
- highlight warm-path nodes and target clusters
- if useful, add a final scene showing the self-improvement lineage that informed the skill
Render Conventions
- default to 16:9 landscape unless the user asks for vertical
- start with a low-quality smoke test render
- only push to higher quality after composition and timing are stable
- export one clean thumbnail frame that reads at social size
Reusable Starter
Use assets/network_graph_scene.py as a starting point for network-graph explainers.
Example smoke test:
manim -ql assets/network_graph_scene.py NetworkGraphExplainer
Output Format
Return:
- core visual thesis
- storyboard
- scene outline
- render plan
- any follow-on polish recommendations
Related Skills
video-editingfor final polishremotion-video-creationfor motion-heavy post-processing or compositingcontent-enginewhen the animation is part of a broader launch
What ships with it: 1 file
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assets/
- network_graph_scene.pyruns2.8 KB
Gives 7 of the 12 instructions most video audio skills give in 571 tokens
Counted across 619 of the 725 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06
- Read product marketing context firstin 13 of 619, across 7 files
- Define the core visual thesis in one sentencehere, and in 11 of 619, across 3 files
- Break the concept into 3 to 6 sceneshere, and in 11 of 619, across 3 files
- Render the smallest working version firsthere, and in 11 of 619, across 3 files
- Start with a low-quality smoke test renderhere, and in 11 of 619, across 3 files
- Add captions for accessibility and engagementin 11 of 619, across 5 files
- Write the scene outline before writing codehere, and in 11 of 619, across 3 files
- Specify subject, action, camera, style, and moodin 11 of 619, across 5 files
- Decide what each scene proveshere, and in 10 of 619, across 2 files
- Export one clean thumbnail framehere, and in 10 of 619, across 2 files
- Pick the right tool for the jobin 10 of 619, across 4 files
- Run the test suite before proposing a fixin 8 of 619, across 7 files
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.