hyperframes

# Hyperframes

Open-source video rendering framework: write HTML, render video.

## Skills

This repo ships AI agent skills via [vercel-labs/skills](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills). Install them before writing compositions — they encode framework-specific patterns that generic docs don't cover. **Default to the core set** — the `/hyperframes` router installs each creation workflow on demand; install everything only when the user explicitly asks for the full set.

```bash
npx hyperframes skills update                        # default: installs/refreshes the core set — workflows install on demand
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --full-depth   # interactive picker (terminal only — non-interactive without --skill installs everything)
```

**Creation workflows** route through one entry skill — read `/hyperframes` first: it orients you to the whole surface, confirms the brief up front (the intent layer), and maps "make me a…" intent — usually a video, but also a navigable deck (`/slideshow`) or a composition port (`/remotion-to-hyperframes`) — to a concrete workflow. Consult it before invoking a specific workflow:

- `/product-launch-video` — any **website** URL (or a pre-written script / text brief in no-capture mode) → a product launch / promo video, or a site tour / showcase featuring the site's own captured screens; up to ~3 min (sweet spot ~30-90s).
- `/faceless-explainer` — arbitrary text, **no URL and no website capture** → faceless explainer, up to ~3 min (sweet spot ~30-90s); every visual is LLM-invented (typography / abstract graphics / diagram / data-viz).
- `/embedded-captions` — an existing talking-head video (MP4) → the same footage with captions / subtitles added (verbatim rail + embedded climax, or pure-cinematic embed); the footage itself is untouched (no NLE-style editing).
- `/talking-head-recut` — an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video (MP4) → the same footage packaged with designed **graphic overlays** (kinetic titles, lower-thirds, data callouts, pull-quotes, side panels, pip) synced to the transcript; the clip plays unchanged underneath, footage untouched. For plain captions/subtitles → `/embedded-captions`.
- `/pr-to-video` — a GitHub PR (URL / `owner/repo#N` / "this PR") → code-change explainer, up to ~3 min (changelog / feature reveal / fix / refactor). A PR link, not a product website.
- `/motion-graphics` — a short (typically under 10s) design-led **motion graphic**, motion-is-the-message, no narration: kinetic type, a stat / number count-up, a chart, a logo sting, a lower-third / overlay, or an animated tweet / headline / captured-page highlight; rendered to MP4 or a transparent overlay. Longer / narrated / custom → `/general-video`.
- `/music-to-video` — a **music track** (audio file, video to pull audio from, or one generated from a mood brief) → beat-synced video (lyric / slideshow / kinetic promo). Music drives pacing; user-supplied images / videos are cut onto the same beat grid.
- `/slideshow` — a **presentation / pitch deck / interactive deck** — discrete slides, fragment reveals, branching, hotspot navigation, presenter mode. Output is a navigable deck, not a rendered video.
- `/general-video` — fallback for any other video creation (title card, longer brand / sizzle reel, multi-scene montage, static loop, custom composition) and the home of **companion mode** — co-create with the full HyperFrames toolbox; the original hyperframes flow — design → plan → layout → build → validate, any length.

**Porting an existing composition?** `/remotion-to-hyperframes` translates a Remotion (React) video composition into HyperFrames HTML — a source migration, separate from the creation workflows above.

## Build & Test

```bash
bun install     # Install dependencies (NOT pnpm — do not create pnpm-lock.yaml)
bun run build   # Build all packages
bun run test    # Run all tests
```

### Linting & Formatting

Uses **oxlint** and **oxfmt** (not eslint, not prettier, not biome).

```bash
bunx oxlint <files>        # Lint
bunx oxfmt <files>         # Format
bunx oxfmt --check <files> # Check formatting (CI / pre-commit)
```

Always lint and format changed files before committing. Lefthook pre-commit hooks enforce this automatically.

### Composition Validation

After creating or editing any `.html` composition:

```bash
npx hyperframes lint       # Static HTML structure check
npx hyperframes check      # Browser gate (headless Chrome — runtime errors, layout, motion, WCAG contrast)
```

Both must pass before previewing or considering work complete.

## Project Structure

```
packages/
  cli/                  → hyperframes CLI (create, preview, lint, render)
  core/                 → Types, parsers, generators, linter, runtime, frame adapters
  engine/               → Seekable page-to-video capture engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)
  player/               → Embeddable <hyperframes-player> web component
  producer/             → Full rendering pipeline (capture + encode + audio mix)
  shader-transitions/   → WebGL shader transitions for compositions
  studio/               → Browser-based composition editor UI (read packages/studio/AGENTS.md first)
registry/
  blocks/               → Installable sub-composition scenes (50+)
  components/           → Installable effects and snippets
  examples/             → Starter project templates
docs/                   → Mintlify documentation site (hyperframes.heygen.com)
skills/                 → AI agent skill definitions
```

## Key Conventions

- **Package manager**: bun (not pnpm, not npm for workspace operations)
- **Commit format**: Conventional commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`, `test:`)
- **TypeScript**: Avoid `any` and `as T` assertions. Prefer type guards and narrowing.
- **Compositions**: HTML files with `data-*` attributes. Clips need `class="clip"`. GSAP timelines must be paused and registered on `window.__timelines`.
- **Frame Adapters**: Animation runtimes plug in via the seek-by-frame adapter pattern. GSAP is the primary adapter.
- **Deterministic rendering**: No `Date.now()`, no unseeded `Math.random()`, no render-time network fetches.

## Documentation

- Docs: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/introduction
- Catalog (50+ blocks): https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/data-chart

# Hyperframes

Open-source video rendering framework: write HTML, render video.

## Skills

This repo ships 20 AI agent skills via [vercel-labs/skills](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills). Install them before writing compositions — they encode framework-specific patterns that generic docs don't cover. **Default to the core set**: the `/hyperframes` router installs each creation workflow on demand; install all 20 only when the user explicitly asks for the full set.

```bash
npx hyperframes skills update                                   # default: installs/refreshes the core set — workflows install on demand
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --full-depth              # interactive picker (terminal only — non-interactive without --skill installs all 20)
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --all --full-depth        # all 20 at once — only on explicit request
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill <name> --full-depth  # just one (bare name, no leading slash)
```

Keep `--full-depth`: it installs the current `main`. Without it, `skills add` fetches the skills.sh registry blob, which lags `main` by hours (you'd get a stale skill). `hyperframes skills update` already uses full-depth.

**`/hyperframes` is the entry skill — read it first.** It's the capability map for the domain skills below, the intent layer that confirms every creation brief up front, AND the intent router for the creation workflows. The full README skills section mirrors this list; keep them in sync (see "Skill catalog maintenance" below).

### Creation workflows

- `/product-launch-video` — any **website** URL (or a pre-written script / text brief in no-capture mode) → a product launch / promo video, or a site tour / showcase featuring the site's own captured screens; up to ~3 min (sweet spot ~30-90s).
- `/faceless-explainer` — arbitrary text, **no URL and no website capture** → faceless explainer, up to ~3 min (sweet spot ~30-90s); every visual is LLM-invented (typography / abstract graphics / diagram / data-viz).
- `/pr-to-video` — a GitHub PR (URL / `owner/repo#N` / "this PR") → code-change explainer, up to ~3 min (changelog / feature reveal / fix / refactor). A PR link, not a product website.
- `/embedded-captions` — an existing talking-head video (MP4) → the same footage with captions / subtitles added (verbatim rail + embedded climax, or pure-cinematic embed); the footage itself is untouched (no NLE-style editing).
- `/talking-head-recut` — an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video (MP4) → the same footage packaged with designed **graphic overlays** (kinetic titles, lower-thirds, data callouts, pull-quotes, side panels, PiP) synced to the transcript; the clip plays unchanged underneath, footage untouched. For plain captions/subtitles → `/embedded-captions`.
- `/motion-graphics` — a short (typically under 10s) design-led **motion graphic**, motion-is-the-message, no narration: kinetic type, a stat / number count-up, a chart, a logo sting, a lower-third / overlay, or an animated tweet / headline / captured-page highlight; rendered to MP4 or a transparent overlay. Longer / narrated / custom → `/general-video`.
- `/music-to-video` — a **music track** (audio file, video to pull audio from, or one generated from a mood brief) → beat-synced video (lyric / slideshow / kinetic promo). Music drives pacing; user-supplied images / videos are cut onto the same beat grid.
- `/slideshow` — a **presentation / pitch deck / interactive deck** — discrete slides, fragment reveals, branching, hotspot navigation, presenter mode. Output is a navigable deck, not a rendered video.
- `/general-video` — fallback for any other video creation (title card, longer brand / sizzle reel, multi-scene montage, static loop, custom composition) and the home of **companion mode** — co-create with the full HyperFrames toolbox; the original hyperframes flow — design → plan → layout → build → validate, any length.
- `/remotion-to-hyperframes` — port an existing Remotion (React) composition to HyperFrames HTML. One-way migration, not creation.

### Domain skills (loaded on demand)

Atomic capabilities the creation workflows compose against — pull one when you need that specific layer:

- `/hyperframes-core` — the composition contract: `data-*` timing attributes, `class="clip"`, tracks, sub-compositions, variables, framework-owned media playback, determinism rules. Read before writing composition HTML.
- `/hyperframes-animation` — all animation knowledge: atomic motion rules, scene blueprints, transitions, runtime adapters (GSAP default, plus Lottie / Three.js / Anime.js / CSS / WAAPI / TypeGPU).
- `/hyperframes-keyframes` — seek-safe keyframe authoring across runtimes: GSAP timelines, CSS keyframes, Anime.js, WAAPI, FLIP, paths, masks, SVG morph/draw, text trails, 3D depth; plus `hyperframes keyframes` diagnostics for surfacing and verifying rendered motion.
- `/hyperframes-creative` — non-animation creative direction: `frame.md` / `design.md` handling, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns.
- `/media-use` — the media OS: resolve any media need (BGM, SFX, image, icon, logo, voice, color grade, LUT) into a frozen local file or paste-ready block + ledger record; generate via TTS / music / image models when the catalog misses; transcribe, caption, remove backgrounds, and reuse assets across projects. One shared `scripts/audio.mjs` engine + manifest tracking; keeps search noise on disk.
- `/hyperframes-audio` — mix the audio already placed in a composition: voiceover carve (dip a music bed only in the bands the voice occupies, static or dynamic, level match included), the effect chain (EQ, compressor, limiter, gate, saturation, delay, reverb, chorus, phaser, bitcrush), and automation envelopes on volume or any effect parameter. Sourcing the audio is `/media-use`; this is what happens to it afterwards.
- `/hyperframes-cli` — CLI dev loop: `init`, `add`, `lint`, `check`, `snapshot`, `preview`, `render`, `publish`, `doctor`, `lambda` (AWS Lambda cloud rendering).
- `/hyperframes-registry` — install and wire registry blocks and components into compositions via `hyperframes add`. Covers authoring a new block or component to contribute upstream.
- `/figma` — import Figma assets, tokens, components, and storyboard sections → reconstructed motion (frames read as states, not slides) (REST/CLI) plus Motion animations (MCP) and shaders (MCP source / native export) into a composition.

## Skill catalog maintenance

When adding a new skill, or substantially renaming / repurposing an existing one, update all agent-facing discoverability surfaces in lockstep:

1. The skill list above (CLAUDE.md) AND the workflow list in the root `AGENTS.md` (it carries workflows only, no domain-skill section) AND the `## Skills` section in `README.md` AND `docs/guides/skills.mdx` (rendered at [hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/skills](https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/skills)) AND the two setup tables that compress the same descriptions — `docs/prompting/overview.mdx` ("One-time setup") and `docs/quickstart.mdx`. Out-of-date entries silently kill discovery. This list is also the sync set for a **changed contract**, not just an added or renamed skill: a reworded `description:` has to be pushed to every surface or the compressed copies start asserting the opposite of the skill.
2. The scaffolded project template `packages/cli/src/templates/_shared/CLAUDE.md` + `AGENTS.md` — written into every `hyperframes init` project, so a stale entry there ships to users. The two template files must stay byte-identical.
3. If the skill changes the routing surface for "make a video" requests, also update the routing table + intent layer in `skills/hyperframes/SKILL.md` AND that workflow's own route file, `skills/hyperframes/references/routes/<workflow>.md`. One file carries both halves: the input/output/trigger contract the router reads before the workflow is installed, and its interview entry (must-haves, conditionals, deferred asks, run-shape). The older `references/workflow-catalog.md` and `references/route-briefs.md` are now "moved" stubs pointing at `routes/` — don't edit them.
4. Mirror the Router / Creation workflows / Domain skills grouping across all surfaces so a skill always lives in the same column.
5. Skill count appears in the README and CLAUDE.md intro lines ("20 AI agent skills…") — update on add/remove. The `docs/guides/skills.mdx` page and the CLI templates deliberately omit a count to avoid drift; keep them count-free.

The skill's own `SKILL.md` frontmatter `description:` is the source of truth for the one-line "use when" blurb; copy from there into the catalog rather than paraphrasing.

## Build & Test

```bash
bun install     # Install dependencies (NOT pnpm — do not create pnpm-lock.yaml)
bun run build   # Build all packages
bun run test    # Run all tests
```

### Linting & Formatting

Uses **oxlint** and **oxfmt** (not eslint, not prettier, not biome).

```bash
bunx oxlint <files>        # Lint
bunx oxfmt <files>         # Format
bunx oxfmt --check <files> # Check formatting (CI / pre-commit)
```

Always lint and format changed files before committing. Lefthook pre-commit hooks enforce this automatically.

### Composition Validation

After creating or editing any `.html` composition:

```bash
npx hyperframes lint       # Static HTML structure check
npx hyperframes check      # Browser gate (headless Chrome — runtime errors, layout, motion, WCAG contrast)
```

Both must pass before previewing or considering work complete.

## Project Structure

```
packages/
  cli/                  → hyperframes CLI (create, preview, lint, render)
  core/                 → Types, parsers, generators, linter, runtime, frame adapters
  engine/               → Seekable page-to-video capture engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)
  player/               → Embeddable <hyperframes-player> web component
  producer/             → Full rendering pipeline (capture + encode + audio mix)
  shader-transitions/   → WebGL shader transitions for compositions
  studio/               → Browser-based composition editor UI (read packages/studio/AGENTS.md first)
registry/
  blocks/               → Installable sub-composition scenes (50+)
  components/           → Installable effects and snippets
  examples/             → Starter project templates
docs/                   → Mintlify documentation site (hyperframes.heygen.com)
skills/                 → AI agent skill definitions
```

## Key Conventions

- **Package manager**: bun (not pnpm, not npm for workspace operations)
- **Commit format**: Conventional commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`, `test:`)
- **TypeScript**: Avoid `any` and `as T` assertions. Prefer type guards and narrowing.
- **Compositions**: HTML files with `data-*` attributes. Clips need `class="clip"`. GSAP timelines must be paused and registered on `window.__timelines`.
- **Frame Adapters**: Animation runtimes plug in via the seek-by-frame adapter pattern. GSAP is the primary adapter.
- **Deterministic rendering**: No `Date.now()`, no unseeded `Math.random()`, no render-time network fetches.

## Documentation

- Docs: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/introduction
- Catalog (50+ blocks): https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/data-chart