Pixel GIF Maker Skill

The most-reacted message in any Slack channel is never the status update — it's the GIF. This skill makes custom ones in a retro pixel style: your words, four animations, eight colors, and a file small enough to drag anywhere. The whole encoder is a bundled pure-stdlib Python script — this library's calculators are dependency-free and deterministic, and so is its confetti.

What This Skill Produces

• A .gif file (GIF89a, looping) with the user's text in chunky 5×7 pixel type
• One of four animations: scroll (marquee), pulse (heartbeat zoom), party (hue-cycling text + confetti), sparkle (twinkling stars)
• Sized for chat: typically 10–60KB, well under any upload limit

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