Ten videos on the docs site played in silence. The player is click-to-play, so a
reader deliberately starts them and gets nothing — which reads as broken rather
than as a stylistic choice.
The music is from HeyGen's own catalogue, pulled through the media-use skill's
resolve path with the account already authenticated on this machine. That matters
more than convenience: the launch projects on disk carry a `launch-music-trimmed.mp3`
with no licence, no attribution and no metadata, and three Pixabay tracks. Neither
belongs on the official docs CDN, where objects cache immutably for a year.
Mixed at roughly -22 to -24 dB mean so it sits under the picture. Getting there
took two corrections worth recording: proportional fades, because a 1.2s fade-out
on a 5s clip eats half the audio; and seeking 11s into the bed, because its first
ten seconds are a quiet intro that dragged every short clip down to -27 dB.
The three Examples tiles are left silent on purpose — they are muted autoplay
loops, so an audio track would only be weight.
Verified: every video referenced anywhere under docs/ that is not a muted
autoplay tile now has an AAC stream, checked against the live CDN URL rather than
the local file.
The animation guide had nothing to look at, which is a strange state for a page
about motion. It now opens with the keyframes launch film — real `gsap.to()`
source with a `keyframes` array on screen, and the same motion being reshaped by
dragging an ease curve in Studio instead of guessing numbers.
Examples loses the ten-second reference-project render. It sat directly beneath
four finished films and lost the comparison every time; the four cards above it
already carry the point that the project is open end to end. The cards stay, the
render goes.
Rewrites the pages that survive the restructure so they lead with what a reader
can accomplish, and points them at the sections added in the previous commit.
Page set and navigation are unchanged here; only content moves.
Keeps the skill count in README. CLAUDE.md's catalog-maintenance rule requires
the count to live in README and CLAUDE.md, and both now agree with the 19
directories under skills/.
Exhaustive audit of every MDX file in docs/ against skill references
and package source code. Every API signature, default value, flag,
and technical claim verified against ground truth.
Major improvements across all 18 pages:
- Use Mintlify components: <Steps> for tutorials, <Tabs> for alternatives,
<CodeGroup> for multi-platform commands, <Tree> for directory structures,
<AccordionGroup> for FAQ/scannable content, <Mermaid> for diagrams
- Add filename annotations to all code blocks (e.g., ```html index.html)
- Add numbered comments inside multi-step code examples
- Show expected terminal output after CLI commands
- Add "When to use" / "When NOT to use" sections to all package pages
- Add "Next Steps" CardGroup to every page (no dead-end pages)
- Cross-link between pages at point of curiosity (not just "see also" dumps)
- Expand thin pages (engine, studio) with architecture details and examples
- Add decision guides (rendering modes, template selection)
- Use <Warning> and <Note> sparingly (max 2-3 per page)
Also adds DOCS_GUIDELINES.md at repo root with writing standards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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