Animation

The ashlr landing page and the status line widget use three layered animation effects. This page documents their implementation for contributors.

Gradient sweep

A slow diagonal gradient that drifts across the status line background, giving a sense of continuous activity without being distracting.

Implementation: CSS @keyframes on a background-position property, moving a 200% wide linear gradient from left to right over 8 seconds, looping infinitely with ease-in-out. The gradient uses the --debit accent color at 8% opacity so it's barely perceptible on the parchment background.

@keyframes sweep {
  0%   { background-position: 0% 50%; }
  50%  { background-position: 100% 50%; }
  100% { background-position: 0% 50%; }
}

Heartbeat

A subtle scale pulse on the savings number that fires once after each tool call — a "receipt received" signal.

Implementation: Framer Motion animate with scale: [1, 1.04, 1] and duration: 0.4. Triggered by a useEffect that watches the tokensSaved value; when it changes, the animation plays once.

Activity pulse

The small dot indicator (same color as --debit) that pulses while a tool call is in flight.

Implementation: CSS @keyframes with opacity: [1, 0.3, 1] and box-shadow growing from 0 to 0 0 0 4px rgba(139, 46, 26, 0.15). Stops animating when the in-flight state clears.

Landing page animations

The landing page uses react-bits components for the hero section animations:

• GradientText — the headline color sweep
• AnimatedContent — staggered fade-in on section entries

These are purely cosmetic and are not part of the plugin itself.