Pretext

Quality score: 80/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: design-creative

Create text effects impossible with CSS alone — kinetic typography, flowing text around animated obstacles, calligrams, shrinkwrap chat bubbles, typographic ASCII art, glyph path animation, variable font waves, glyph morphing, illuminated manuscripts. Single-file HTML output, zero build step. Powered by @chenglou/pretext + opentype.js. Triggers on text effects, kinetic typography, text animation, calligram, glyph art, typography art.

What this skill does

Pretext is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 80/100) in the design-creative sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/pretext/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Pretext skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pretext
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/pretext/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/pretext/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/pretext/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/pretext/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\pretext\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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