How Claude Dashboards and Motion work

When you ask Claude for a dashboard or an animation, what does it make?

Agents and tool calling · about 5 minutes

Ask Claude for a dashboard and it writes a query for each chart: a short program that asks your database for numbers. Ask it for an animation and it writes code that moves your words and charts. The code makes the picture, so you can check a number, keep a chart current or change one word.

Sketch: Xiaohei writes on a long slip, the code, under a magnifying glass marked you can read this; a hand-cranked machine runs it, and out come a bar chart and a film strip, the animation