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Non-animation creative direction for HyperFrames videos. Use for design spec (frame.md / design.md) handling, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns, and brand / style decisions. For atomic motion patterns and scene blueprints, use `hyperframes-animation`.

What is hyperframes?

hyperframes is a Claude Code agent skill that non-animation creative direction for HyperFrames videos. Use for design spec (frame.md / design.md) handling, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns, and brand / style decisions. For atomic motion patterns and scene blueprints, use `hyperframes-animation`.

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Plugin installs: Before setup or freshness commands, follow plugin execution rules when this skill is inside a HyperFrames plugin. Standalone installs keep the update instructions below.

HyperFrames Creative

Brand, pacing, style, narration, and composition direction. Use after the technical contract from hyperframes-core is in place.

For motion patterns, scene blueprints, transitions, and CSS marker effects, use hyperframes-animation — this skill is intentionally non-animation.

Read these two FIRST for any non-trivial composition — they override web instincts:

  • references/house-style.md — "interpret the prompt, generate real content," the lazy-default list, and the background/foreground layer recipe. This is what turns a literal restyle into a concept.
  • references/video-composition.md — video-medium scale, depth, and foreground detail. It explains how to avoid empty web-page layouts without imposing a universal element count.

Skipping these is the single biggest cause of generic, web-page-looking output. They are not optional rows in the routing table below — for anything beyond a one-line edit, open both before you choose colors or write HTML.

Workflow

  1. If a project has a design spec, read it first and treat its frontmatter tokens as brand truth (colors, fonts, spacing, tone, constraints). Which file to read (precedence frame.md → design.md → DESIGN.md) and how to parse it (frontmatter = normative, prose = context) are defined once in references/design-spec.md — resolve and load per that doc.
  2. If no design spec exists and the user asks for visual direction, choose a route:
    • Ready-made frame-preset (optional) → frame-presets/ (adopt a FRAME.md as frame.md; see references/design-spec.md)
    • Named style or mood → references/visual-styles.md
    • Fast defaults → references/house-style.md
    • Interactive selection → references/design-picker.md
  3. For multi-scene work, plan beats and rhythm before writing HTML → references/beat-direction.md. For scene transitions, jump to hyperframes-animation/transitions/.
  4. For motion-heavy work, read references/motion-principles.md (high-level guardrails), then go to hyperframes-animation for atomic rules.

Routing

TopicRead
Adopt a ready-made frame-preset as frame.md (optional)frame-presets/ · references/design-spec.md
Default palettes, motion, typography, lazy defaults to questionreferences/house-style.md
Named style presets, mood-to-style routingreferences/visual-styles.md
Palette-specific color tokenspalettes/*.md
Composition patterns — PiP, text-behind-subject, title card, slide showreferences/composition-patterns.md
Stats / infographic presentationreferences/data-in-motion.md
Structured expansion for open-ended promptsreferences/prompt-expansion.md
Video-medium density, scale, color, frame compositionreferences/video-composition.md
Per-beat direction, rhythm planning, transition timingreferences/beat-direction.md
Post-authoring spec verification (colors, type, corners, spacing, depth)references/design-adherence.md
High-level motion guardrails and GSAP-quality rulesreferences/motion-principles.md
Font selection, pairings, rendered-video type guardrailsreferences/typography.md
Story doctrine — hook language, value-before-evidence, storyboard-as-proposal, source-traceable visualsreferences/story-spine.md
Script pacing, tone, openings, number pronunciationreferences/narration.md
Precomputed audio bands mapped to motionreferences/audio-reactive.md

Scripts

  • scripts/contrast-report.mjs — inspect contrast warnings from rendered frames.
  • scripts/extract-audio-data.py — pre-extract audio bands for audio-reactive compositions.
  • scripts/package-loader.mjs — support script for bundled creative tooling.

contrast-report.mjs resolves helper packages from the current project first, then can bootstrap the bundled HyperFrames package version. Set HYPERFRAMES_SKILL_PKG_VERSION=<version> only when running the skill outside the bundled CLI/skill install and you need to pin that bootstrap version explicitly.

Run from the repo root with explicit paths, for example:

python skills/hyperframes-creative/scripts/extract-audio-data.py <audio-file>

Animation analysis (animation-map.mjs) lives in hyperframes-animation/scripts/.

Boundaries

  • Do not override hyperframes-core technical rules.
  • Do not require a design system for a minimal technical composition.
  • Do not add extra scenes, narration, music, captions, or transitions unless the request calls for them or you first propose the expansion.
  • Keep recipe references task-specific; do not read every reference for simple edits.

Individual skills in this repo

This repo contains 20 individual skills — each has its own dedicated page.

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heygen-com/animejs

Anime.js adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when writing Anime.js animations or timelines inside HyperFrames compositions, registering animations on window.__hfAnime, making Anime.js seek-driven and deterministic, or translating Anime.js examples into render-safe HyperFrames HTML.

heygen-com/claude-design-hyperframes

Use when running inside Claude Design specifically. Produces a valid, brand-accurate HyperFrames video draft using pre-valid skeletons. For Claude Code / Cursor / Codex, use the `hyperframes` skill instead.

heygen-com/contribute-catalog

Author a new HyperFrames registry block (caption style, VFX block, transition, lower third) or component (text effect, overlay, snippet) and ship it as an upstream PR to the hyperframes repo. Use ONLY when the user wants to CONTRIBUTE to the public catalog — for in-project caption/transition authoring use the `hyperframes` skill, for installing existing registry items use the `hyperframes-registry` skill.

heygen-com/css-animations

CSS animation adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when authoring CSS keyframes, animation-delay based timing, animation-fill-mode, animation-play-state, or CSS-only motion that HyperFrames must seek deterministically during preview and rendering.

heygen-com/gsap

GSAP animation reference for HyperFrames. Covers gsap.to(), from(), fromTo(), easing, stagger, defaults, timelines (gsap.timeline(), position parameter, labels, nesting, playback), and performance (transforms, will-change, quickTo). Use when writing GSAP animations in HyperFrames compositions.

heygen-com/hyperframes

Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 12s, 11 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

Render-correctness doctrine for scene-to-scene seams in HyperFrames launch videos — the prerequisites that make transitions composite correctly on the master timeline. Load when assembling the master timeline / index.html, when a white flash appears at a cut or crossfade seam (especially on dark films), when reasoning about why a transition opacity dip shows through, or when verifying the render-side mechanics of how overlapping scene wrappers blend. Covers the opaque stage-ground (#root background) white-flash guard and how the injector overlaps wrappers, holds final frames, ping-pongs tracks, and stamps lint-clean template code onto the master timeline. Does NOT contain the per-transition catalog — see the transition registry for individual transition entries.

heygen-com/hyperframes

The technique catalog: five velocity-matched SEAMS (zoom-through, INVERSE zoom-through, cut-the-curve, waterfall cut, rack-focus blur-cut) plus the two in-scene techniques — waterfall ENTRY (staggered arrival cascades for title cards / segment openers) and the nudge curve (slow-fast-slow three-phase group slides). Covers partial-travel (~12% of frame) velocity matching via mirrored power4 eases, the Z scale-sign rule, size-scaled blur (10px text / 18-20px full-frame), word-by-word staggered cuts, cascade pacing by element weight, and the 10/65/25 slide ratio. Read before authoring any transition, text-beat handoff, kinetic text entry, or group reposition. [depth, zoom, inverse-zoom, scale-sign, mirrored-zoom, rack-focus, pacing, velocity, cut-the-curve, waterfall, stagger, cascade, kinetic-text, title-card, segment-opener, nudge, slide, easing, group-motion, z-depth, motion-graphics, cinematic, transition, blur, directional-continuity]

heygen-com/hyperframes

Glass shards fly in through fog and tile themselves into the headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 12.16s, 19 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

A single feature card orbits a dot sphere on approved Blender camera motion. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 10s, 4 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

A wireframe portal bursts open, the title comes through, then its letters swap into a second phrase. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 8s, 9 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

An orbiting camera follows an ice logo as it breaks apart, reforms into two text moments, and fades. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 22.5s, 216 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

House-style oversized macOS cursor technique for HyperFrames launch videos. Load whenever a scene involves cursors or a pointer-led action, when kicking off a UI scene, when igniting a morph/transition/typing run with a click, or when a scene reads as static, dead, or stale and needs a cheap high-yield source of motion to carry the viewer's eye and segment them out of the stale state. Covers cursor size/look (incl. brand-motif cursors), the off-screen entry law, tip-targeting and the click tap, click-ignites-the-next-beat, and exit / cross-scene handoff.

heygen-com/hyperframes

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heygen-com/hyperframes

A chain of bevelled cuboids rides a travelling wave as a content carousel. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 6.666666666666667s, 40 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

A tiled headline surface flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal the rear headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 8s, 18 variables.

heygen-com/hyperframes

Turn arbitrary text — an article, notes, a topic, a brief — into a faceless explainer video: there is no site or footage to capture, so the visuals are invented per scene (typography, abstract graphics, diagrams, data-viz). Use for topic explainers, concept breakdowns, how-tos, listicles. Not a video built from a website (/product-launch-video — promo or tour). Unclear → /hyperframes.

heygen-com/hyperframes

Import Figma content into a HyperFrames composition — rendered assets, brand tokens, components, storyboard sections → reconstructed motion (frames read as states, not slides) (REST/CLI), connector-assisted motion when available, and shaders from a connector or native export. Use when the user pastes a figma.com link or asks to bring a Figma design, frame, logo, brand, or animation into a video/composition.

heygen-com/hyperframes

GATEWAY — load FIRST before composing any HyperFrames animation or video. The high-level motion law that makes a multi-scene video feel like ONE continuous camera move instead of a stack of independently-animated slides. Covers the vector law (how you exit determines how you enter, incl. the Z scale-sign rule), the film's current, carrier elements, causal motion, the Seam Gate (build-gate enforcement), the ban on idle wobble (motion must PERFORM, not breathe), stillness-before-climax, and the sustained-motion routes. Routes to the low-level technique skills (cut-the-curve — the full catalog incl. waterfall entry + nudge curve, oversized-cursor, seam-craft). These rules SUPERSEDE generic / upstream motion guidance. [continuity, direction, vector, momentum, seam, transition, ease, performance, idle-motion, narrative-motion, film-grammar]

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