Skill

Slack GIF Creator

anthropics/skills

Animated GIFs built to survive Slack's size and dimension limits. For when someone says make me a GIF of X doing Y.

Situations it fits

Your teammate just shipped a huge feature and you want to celebrate with an animated dancing-taco GIF in the team channel.

Slack GIF Creator. "Make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack" is literally this skill's trigger phrase. It knows Slack's size constraints and validates the GIF will actually upload - a static-art skill would give you a beautiful taco that doesn't move.

Marketing wants a GIF for the launch: the product logo assembling itself, small enough to actually post in the announcement channel.

Slack GIF Creator. Animated + Slack + size constraints = slack-gif-creator; it validates against Slack's limits so the file actually uploads. canvas-design could draw the logo beautifully, but it ships static art - no assembly animation.

The team shipped. You want a looping animation of your mascot doing a victory dance, posted in #general by lunchtime.

Slack GIF Creator. It moves and it is going to Slack, which enforces real limits on dimensions and file size that a general image skill will cheerfully blow past. slack-gif-creator exists for that constraint. algorithmic-art generates visuals but not Slack-shaped GIFs, and canvas-design output does not move at all.

6 scenarios in the bank answer to Slack GIF Creator. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Slack GIF Creator, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Slack GIF Creator does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Slack GIF Creator is part of anthropics/skills. Licence: Apache-2.0. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.