# Transitions polish

> Use when motion already works and the durations, easing and stagger need tuning.

Polish and refine existing motion against the transitions.dev motion-token scale — duration, distance, scale, blur, and easing — plus the rules for WHEN each token applies (open/close asymmetry, hover-in vs hover-out, stagger offsets, and intent delays). An add-on to the transitions-dev skill, focused on tuning what already animates rather than adding new transitions. Use when the user asks to "polish my transitions", "refine the motion", "tune the timing / easing", "make the animation feel better / less janky", "tighten the durations", "fix the stagger", "align to the motion tokens", "audit the motion", "review my animations", "scan for ad-hoc transitions", "tokenize my animations", or runs the commands transitions review or transitions polish. Also drives the Refine panel's Small refinement feature. Triggers on "motion polish", "transition polish", "refine motion", "timing feels off", "too slow / too fast", "stagger", "delay", "open close timing", "hover in out".

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Design
- Author: Jakub Antalik (https://github.com/jakubantalik)
- Upstream: https://github.com/Jakubantalik/transitions.dev/blob/main/skills/transitions-polish/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jakubantalik/transitions.dev/main/skills/transitions-polish/SKILL.md (12746 bytes, sha256:365a5bf179c8f53ccd8233d807f5a65a3c4311c90ff645305b7d5f983bb2e33e)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Transitions polish skill by Jakub Antalik.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Polish and refine existing motion against the transitions.dev motion-token scale — duration, distance, scale, blur, and easing — plus the rules for WHEN each token applies (open/close asymmetry, hover-in vs hover-out, stagger offsets, and intent delays). An add-on to the transitions-dev skill, focused on tuning what already animates rather than adding new transitions. Use when the user asks to "polish my transitions", "refine the motion", "tune the timing / easing", "make the animation feel better / less janky", "tighten the durations", "fix the stagger", "align to the motion tokens", "audit the motion", "review my animations", "scan for ad-hoc transitions", "tokenize my animations", or runs the commands transitions review or transitions polish. Also drives the Refine panel's Small refinement feature. Triggers on "motion polish", "transition polish", "refine motion", "timing feels off", "too slow / too fast", "stagger", "delay", "open close timing", "hover in out".
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/Jakubantalik/transitions.dev/tree/main/skills/transitions-polish, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/transitions-polish/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/transitions-polish/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/transitions-polish/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/jakubantalik/transitions-polish
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/jakubantalik
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/Jakubantalik/transitions.dev/blob/main/skills/transitions-polish/SKILL.md