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    Motion Animation Evaluation

    ChatGPT planning conversation that clarified Motion Design Director should center the taste layer for frontend motion, delegate GSAP API details to official GSAP skills, and use a plugin container when the goal is to bundle the custom taste skill with official skills and optional MCP support.

    Highlights

    • Separated the missing motion-design value into taste, critique, vocabulary, intent, timing, hierarchy, restraint, accessibility, and QA rather than GSAP API instruction.
    • Established that official GSAP skills and docs should remain the technical source of truth for implementation details such as ScrollTrigger, MotionPathPlugin, timeline sequencing, and React cleanup.
    • Narrowed the custom skill structure around a taste runbook, motion vocabulary, tokens, pattern-selection rules, anti-patterns, refinement playbook, review rubric, and a thin GSAP delegation map.
    • Revised the packaging recommendation after operator pushback: the durable target should be a plugin container when it needs to bundle the custom taste skill, official GSAP skills, optional MCP configuration, prompts, and assets.
    • Defined the hierarchy for future use: Motion Design Director decides whether and how motion should work, GSAP skills implement the mechanics, and MCP/browser/Figma tools inspect and verify only when useful.

    Source conversation

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    Actions and follow-ups

    Actions Taken

    • Compared custom skills, plugins, custom GPTs, official GSAP skills, and optional MCP support as packaging choices.
    • Refined the proposed file structure away from broad technical recipe docs and toward taste runbooks, motion tokens, pattern guidance, review rubrics, anti-patterns, and delegation rules.
    • Drafted example skill metadata, token defaults, pattern guidance, critique rubric, plugin structure, and plugin manifest sketch.
    • Added this public ChatGPT share link as the public-facing provenance link after a quick private-exposure scan.

    Actions Outstanding

    • Keep this as source architecture context for the Motion Design Director plugin rather than a separate implementation task.
    • When modifying the plugin, verify bundled GSAP skill provenance and license attribution against the current upstream source.
    • Use real rendered motion QA before claiming the taste system improves a specific frontend experience.

    Source extracts

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    Taste-layer priority
    the primary thing i ccare about is the taste layer
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    Thin technical routing
    What we do need is a thin technical routing layer inside your custom skill
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    Plugin pushback
    a plugin can bundle the official gsap skills and mcps alongside the custom stuff
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    Final architecture
    taste directs, GSAP implements, MCPs inspect
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    Decisions

    • Focus Motion Design Director on the taste layer, not on recreating GSAP documentation.
    • Keep only a thin technical routing layer that tells Codex when to invoke official GSAP skills and docs.
    • Use a plugin as the intended container if bundled official GSAP skills, optional MCPs, prompts, or shared installation behavior are part of the goal.
    • Keep bundled GSAP skills clearly separate from the custom taste skill so taste directs and GSAP implements.
    • Treat any GSAP-related MCP dependency as optional and trusted only after provenance is clear; do not depend on a fragile third-party MCP for motion taste.