---
url: "https://anima.arcumet.com/"
title: Anima — interactive, sourced biology figures
source_kind: web
captured: "2026-10-21T19:23:08+00:00"
comment_tree: false
topics: [agent-tooling, claude-code, skills]
summary: Anima is an open-source Claude Code skill that creates interactive, cited biology figures like dopamine receptor mechanisms and plant growth models.
status: ok
---

### Dopamine receptors

D1 raises cAMP, D2 lowers it. Full G-protein cycle, dopamine slider, generic D2 antagonist.

Ask Claude for a biology figure. Get an interactive, sourced, isometric one.

A Claude Code skill. Real structures, a mechanism you can toggle, and a citation for every number on screen.

Free and open source (MIT). If it’s useful, a star helps other people find it.

`npx skills add Garinmckayl/anima -g -a claude-code`
Both raise dopamine in the synapse. They do it in very different ways. Mechanism only.

D1 raises cAMP, D2 lowers it. Block one and watch the signal flip.

A sunflower seedling bends toward light. Model by BendLab, not peer reviewed.

Reuptake, cocaine blockade, amphetamine transport and reverse efflux.

The mesolimbic pathway and one leading model of what changes with repeated exposure.

Glucose-dependent insulin release, the engineered molecule, and what is still preclinical.

Aromatase, estradiol and receptor α in a neuron. The human evidence is weak, and the figure says so.

Saltatory conduction and a hoverable synapse.

The two-state model from BendLab, running live. See when the rate limit matters.

Star the repo so more people find it, and send a figure to someone who’d enjoy it.

Install the skill, then ask Claude for any biology figure.