Generate Slack-ready animated GIFs from custom frame sequences

---
name: generate-slack-ready-animated-gifs-from-custom-frame-sequences
slug: "generate-slack-ready-animated-gifs-from-custom-frame-sequences"
description: "Use Anthropic's slack-gif-creator skill to build animated GIFs that stay inside Slack's practical size, duration, and dimension constraints. It gives an agent a bounded GIF-production workflow, not a generic image library or chat sticker listing."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/slack-gif-creator"
author: "Anthropic"
publisher_type: "Public repository"
category: "Image & Creative Automation"
framework: "Claude Agents"
---

# Generate Slack-ready animated GIFs from custom frame sequences

Use Anthropic's slack-gif-creator skill to build animated GIFs that stay inside Slack's practical size, duration, and dimension constraints. It gives an agent a bounded GIF-production workflow, not a generic image library or chat sticker listing.

## Prerequisites

Python, Pillow, imageio, imageio-ffmpeg, numpy, and optional uploaded source images

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The frontmatter requires only two fields:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Select document-skills or example-skills
- /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
- These example skills are all already available to paid plans in Claude.ai.

- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/slack-gif-creator
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/slack-gif-creator/SKILL.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/generate-slack-ready-animated-gifs-from-custom-frame-sequences/)