# To spring or not to spring

> Use when choosing between a spring and an easing curve for one interaction.

Audit animation code for correct timing function selection. Use when reviewing motion implementations, debugging animations that feel wrong, or choosing between springs and easing. Outputs file:line findings.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Design
- Author: Raphael Salaja (https://github.com/raphaelsalaja)
- Upstream: https://github.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/blob/main/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/main/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/SKILL.md (7461 bytes, sha256:388c3d6651149ff63db2eea292d9b90f1f6f3bc2ab2ff71accc9583af8d56e3b)
- 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 To spring or not to spring skill by Raphael Salaja.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Audit animation code for correct timing function selection. Use when reviewing motion implementations, debugging animations that feel wrong, or choosing between springs and easing. Outputs file:line findings.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/tree/main/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/ 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/raphaelsalaja/to-spring-or-not-to-spring
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/raphaelsalaja
- 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/raphaelsalaja/skill/blob/main/skills/to-spring-or-not-to-spring/SKILL.md