manim-claude

A Claude Code skill for creating mathematical animations with Manim. Installs 24 reference guides, safe-wrapper utilities, and production-ready templates directly into your Claude Code setup.

Install

uvx manim-claude install

That's it. Restart Claude Code and it will know Manim.

What gets installed

• 24 reference guides covering equations, 3D, camera, updaters, visual design, troubleshooting, and more
• safe_manim.py -- drop-in wrappers that prevent the 6 most common Manim crashes
• render_scene.sh -- quality-select render script
• equation_explainer.py -- dim-and-reveal equation scene template
• paper_explainer.py -- 5-phase paper explainer scaffold
• style.py -- shared color palette and layout helpers

Usage

Once installed, Claude will automatically use the skill when you ask it to:

• Create a mathematical animation
• Explain a research paper visually
• Animate an equation or derivation
• Build a 3Blue1Brown-style explainer

Other commands

uvx manim-claude update      # update to latest version
uvx manim-claude uninstall   # remove the skill
uvx manim-claude status      # check installation

Or install permanently and run directly:

pip install manim-claude
manim-claude install

Prerequisites

The skill itself has no heavy dependencies. To actually render animations you need:

pip install manim

Plus a LaTeX distribution (MiKTeX on Windows, MacTeX on macOS, texlive on Linux) for MathTex equations.

License

MIT