* feat(cli): open scaffolded agent instructions with what hyperframes is
Agents asked to make a video choose from what is on disk. The AGENTS.md and
CLAUDE.md that init writes now open with a plain statement of what the project
is and that `hyperframes render` replaces a hand-built headless-browser and
ffmpeg pipeline, and list `snapshot` beside preview, check, render and docs.
A test pins that init writes both files from the template, and the CLI docs
now say init creates them.
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* chore: describe the npm packages in plain words
npm search ranks on description and keywords. The hyperframes package now says
what it does ("Make videos with code and AI agents: write HTML, render MP4.
Open source.") and lists the words people and agents search for. Core and
studio had empty descriptions; producer and player gain keywords too.
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* docs(readme): give coding agents a one-line start
The opening paragraph said what HyperFrames is but not how an agent starts.
Add one line: install the skills, then ask the agent for a video.
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* fix(cli): keep the scaffolded agent intro to what the folder is
Inside a scaffolded project the agent already uses the CLI, so telling it not to build its own
capture pipeline there adds nothing. The intro now only says what the folder is.
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* chore: keep npm metadata to the CLI package
Internal packages are not searched on npm, and the init test only
re-checked the template's own text.
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* chore: context7.json so agents get the docs and the composition rules
Indexes docs, skills, registry and examples only (no test fixtures),
and hands agents five rules from AGENTS.md.
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* docs(cli): document media-use and usage commands
Both command groups are registered and visible but had no section in the CLI reference.
- media-use: subcommands, resolve flags, the per-type source order, where files land,
which sources need a HeyGen sign-in or can cost money, and telemetry.
- usage: flags, the known and unknown result shapes, which logins it reads, and that it
sends no telemetry.
- Add both to the "Find your command" table.
The from, reuse, and params subcommands cannot take their value in this release, so the
page points to the working resolve --from, --reuse, and --params forms instead.
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* docs(cli): drop the media-use bug workaround note
The bugs go to the media-use owner instead of living in the docs.
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* docs(cli): list every command in the finder, and check it in CI
A ~20-line check fails the docs workflow when a CLI command is missing
from "Find your command". On main it finds media-use, usage, models,
clean and events. AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md ask agents to ship docs with
the change.
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* chore: format the docs command check
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* docs: install the Studio app on Linux from the .deb, list models and clean
The download page hands Linux browsers the .deb by default
(demo-next studio/download/route.ts), so the steps now match it.
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* docs: leave the finder rows to the media-use docs PR
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* docs: use the file names the linux download actually gives
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The landing page and hyperframes.dev are tracked; the docs are not, so
AI-chat referrals and docs-to-download paths are invisible. Session
recording stays off.
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* feat(cli): read a whole recording as voice, effect and music lines
`hyperframes audio <file> --read` turns an episode or reference video into
time-stamped lines an agent can read or grep: sentences with rate, pitch and
ending; pauses; sound effects grouped by identical sound, with band, attack,
tail and level over the music; and the music bed split at its cut-outs into
pieces that start, resume, return or are new.
Effects and music come from stems separated by the service at
HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_STEMS_URL (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other).
Without stems, effects are read from the mix outside speech; with neither
stems nor a transcript, voice and effects are not read, and each case is
reported in a warning. Results are cached per file content.
* refactor(cli): name the service error parse instead of commenting it
* fix(cli): call HeyGen's audio services with the CLI's HeyGen credential
Stems for `audio --read` and the `api` analysis provider only ran when
HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_STEMS_URL / HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_API_URL and
HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_API_KEY were set, so someone with HEYGEN_API_KEY or a saved
`hyperframes auth login --api-key` still got "not set" and had to know the
internal route.
Both now default to /v3/audio/stems and /v3/audio/analysis on the HeyGen API
(HEYGEN_API_URL when set) with the credential the other HeyGen commands use.
The URL variables still point at another service, which then needs its own
HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_API_KEY, so the HeyGen credential never goes to a host it was
not issued for.
* fix(cli): keep audio on the machine unless --quality best is asked for
`hyperframes audio` defaulted to --quality best, so anyone with a HeyGen
credential uploaded their audio, and could be billed, for an ordinary beats or
--read run. tts, transcribe and remove-background never leave the machine
unasked.
The default is now local for both measuring and --read. best is unchanged and
still uploads to /v3/audio/analysis and /v3/audio/stems. When a capability goes
unanswered because a service was left out, or --read reads without stems, the
warning says --quality best would add it.
* fix(cli): bound stem transfers and preserve recording timestamps
* fix(cli): an empty audio service URL keeps the service off
HyperFrames Desktop blanks HYPERFRAMES_AUDIO_API_URL and its key while
the analysis route is behind a flag, but gives runs HEYGEN_API_KEY and
HEYGEN_API_URL for its gateway. Falling back to that credential would let a
run that passes --quality best reach the route anyway. An empty URL now turns
the service off, whatever credential is present.
* fix(ci): capture package name in release-age exclusion
(cherry picked from commit f9c6ba3573)
* fix(cli): resend the stems request with its key until the service answers
The stems service answers once the stems are made, which can outlast the
connection, and answers 409 request_in_progress to a resend while the first
request runs. A failed job's reason is failure_message.
* fix(cli): retry incomplete stem separations
* test: validate audio mock route handlers before dispatch
* test: trace premature Windows CLI runner exits
* test: remove temporary Windows runner diagnostics
The included people-only model can drop all or part of a held microphone, phone,
card or instrument. Measured against isnet-general-use and BiRefNet (general and
lite): those keep held objects far better but run 2.8x to 28x slower per frame,
so the default stays and the guide now names the case.
The per-workflow guides now route through /hyperframes, so the sidebar group
names what the reader wants to do rather than skills that no longer ship. The
guides no longer promise a confirmation round the retired workflow skills ran
(the interview and brief); they say what to put in the request and when to ask
for a proposal or storyboard first. URLs are unchanged.
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* refactor(skills): fold six domain skills into hyperframes and media-use guides
hyperframes-core, -animation, -keyframes, -creative and -studio move to
skills/hyperframes/{core,animation,keyframes,creative,studio}/, and
hyperframes-audio moves to skills/media-use/mix/. Each moved SKILL.md becomes
a frontmatter-free GUIDE.md so installers that scan recursively for SKILL.md
no longer see them as skills; the published list goes from 21 to 15.
Relative links, code paths and skill-name mentions are rewritten to the new
locations, the catalog surfaces, marketplace core-skills list, fallback core
set, module-copy targets and skills-manifest.json follow, and
`hyperframes skills update` now removes the retired skills (RETIRED_SKILLS)
when they are still installed.
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* feat(skills): slim the core entries and give media-use a HeyGen and a free path
The four entries every run opens are rewritten to what an agent cannot infer:
hyperframes 21.8 KB to 7.7 KB, hyperframes-cli 24.8 KB to 6.9 KB,
hyperframes-registry 9.9 KB to 4.3 KB, media-use 9.7 KB to 4.9 KB. Detail moved
whole into references (routing close calls and creator edits, CLI pin upgrades,
catalog search tiers, CLI conventions and feedback reports).
- hyperframes: state table, routing, the render contract, a terminal work loop
(check, snapshot, preview before render), the desktop-app hand-off, and a
table of the folded guides.
- media-use: one table of HeyGen versus free local tools per need; HeyGen
sign-in, credits and the CLI's video-agent, avatar, clone, lipsync, translate
and clipping commands; every free path works with no account.
- scripts/check-core-skills.mjs holds entries and descriptions to budget and
checks every taught `npx hyperframes` command and path; runs in lint.
- Core entries are exempt from the formatter: its table padding cost ~1.5 KB
per entry on every run.
- Content tests follow the text to its new home.
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* fix(skills): plugin runs skip skills update; media-use explains HeyGen sign-in and TTS setup
The smoke eval showed a presenter request never reaching media-use and the
free voiceover failing on a missing kokoro-onnx; plugin runs also ran the
skills update the plugin rules forbid.
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* chore(skills): drop a committed Python bytecode file and ignore bytecode
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* feat(skills): align the entry with the Studio skills and keep the workflows' measured facts
The entry drops routing and the intent interview and carries the contract, the
editable-project rules and the work loop. Studio's format, runtimes, motion,
look and captions references come over for terminal use, frame presets move to
assets/, media-use gains Studio's mixing and local-command references, and
film.md and overlays.md keep what the workflow skills measured.
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* feat(skills)!: retire the workflow skills and folded guides; publish seven knowledge skills
The skill pack now publishes exactly seven skills - hyperframes,
hyperframes-cli, hyperframes-registry, media-use, figma, slideshow and
remotion-to-hyperframes - carrying knowledge, not process. The eight
workflow skills, the folded domain guides and the routing/interview
references are deleted; their measured facts already live in the
hyperframes references (format, runtimes, motion, look, captions, film,
overlays) and media-use's mixing reference.
- bake-basemap.mjs and locate.mjs move to skills/hyperframes/scripts/
(bake-basemap gains --help); extract-audio-data.py moves to
media-use/audio/scripts/ for the caption motion reference.
- skills update: the eight workflows join RETIRED_SKILLS so existing
installs prune them (by lock attribution only, since their names are
generic); naming a retired skill reports where its knowledge went and
succeeds instead of failing as unknown.
- Capture prompts point at the hyperframes skill's references/film.md;
the live-map warning names the new bake-basemap path.
- Content tests that pinned knowledge are retargeted to the kept
references; tests of deleted workflows, scripts and process go.
- Catalog surfaces, templates and docs describe the seven skills.
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* fix(skills): resolve the local.md captions link and allow capture's output files in citations
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* fix(skills): regenerate the skills manifest from tracked files only
The committed media-use hash included an ignored __pycache__ bytecode file present
in the local checkout, so CI's clean checkout hashed differently.
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* fix(docs): restore generated catalog pages and docs navigation to main
Catalog PRs commit item sources only; CI regenerates the pages from the edited
registry sources. docs/docs.json is catalog navigation, so its Workflows group
rename is left for a non-catalog PR.
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* build(cli): raise the CLI size budget for the skill references it bundles
The CLI bundles skills/hyperframes, which now carries the folded domain guides and
frame presets (155 KB to 1.08 MB in git). Budgets are the CI-measured size plus 5%:
packed 7526634, unpacked 22593213.
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* test: keep repo-sweep guards meaningful after the workflow skills left
The last shell ffprobe caller and most root index.html examples lived in retired
skills. The shell detector is now pinned on a literal command line, and the
structure-rule sweep needs more than 5 roots (11 remain) rather than 30.
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* feat(skills): slim figma, slideshow and remotion to the Studio shape; restore the storyboard board
slideshow 33.5 KB to 4.9, figma 18.2 to 6.2, remotion-to-hyperframes 11.0 to
4.9, each keeping the facts only it holds (the figma motion helpers, verify gate,
storyboard decoding and usage beacons; present and hand-off; the Remotion lint,
SSIM check and API map). The board page format from the storyboard recipe comes
back as hyperframes/references/storyboard.md: the desktop app's Storyboard tab
reads boards/storyboard.html by its frame, title and time classes. The entry and
the init template now say to snapshot the moments an edit changed before
replying, which the terminal eval found skipped in 22 of 38 runs.
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* fix(skills): manifest without local bytecode; Studio's edit prompt names kept files
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* fix(skills): render when the person asks for the file or for no stops, not only after approval
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* fix(skills): keep the voiceover carve in media-use; presets stage their own fonts
Review follow-ups on #5651:
- carve.mjs and its tests move to skills/media-use/audio/scripts; the audio
docs, mixing.md and two Studio comments point there.
- code-editorial's FRAME.md says to copy its bundled WOFF2s and add the
@font-face blocks, instead of promising the retired build-frame.mjs.
- media-use states the host rule before the HeyGen sign-in steps.
- storyboard-format marks transition_in as a note the agent builds itself.
- Two stale citations (creator-editing-recipes.md, sub-compositions.md).
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* chore(skills): regenerate the manifest without local bytecode
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* fix(skills): the CLI render step follows step 4's rule, not approval alone
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* fix(ci): run the core-skills check from lint again after the main merge
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* feat(skills): films that tell a story start from three storylines; maps use real imagery
Opus 5.5 arm D read motion.md and applied it, but its launch film was a
feature list (pain, three feature cards, proof, logo): film.md left story
to the model. And the map case never opened film.md, so it drew Natural
Earth outlines instead of baking satellite tiles.
- references/story.md: the generic half of Studio's moment-film story and
craft (one thing, three storylines with world and device, the hook,
beats, worlds, copy, brand, tells of a generated film). The person picks
a storyline, or the agent takes its recommendation when asked for the
file or for no stops.
- The entry's work loop names the storyline step for films over ~15 s; the
references table routes stories to story.md and maps to film.md.
- film.md points at story.md and gives maps and real places a section.
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* fix(skills): story.md follows the entry: no voiceover unless asked
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* fix(skills): bake-basemap starts from a globe and stops waiting out its idle timeout
The Opus 5.5 map run spent 13 of its 38 minutes on parallel bakes that
stalled and 15 more recording 300 frames, after rewriting the script because
it could only start on a flat map.
- PROJECTION=globe with a seeded starfield and atmosphere, and FROM/PAN to
turn the globe to CENTER before the dive.
- Each frame polls for loaded tiles instead of waiting for an "idle" event
that had often already fired: 30 frames went from 198-219 s to 10-13 s
locally with byte-identical frames.
- Progress prints seconds a frame and minutes left; film.md shows the globe
call and says to run one bake at a time.
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* fix(skills): render in the foreground; wait on a detached render's log, never pgrep -f
Both Opus 5.5 explainer runs started a detached render, then waited with
`until ! pgrep -f "hyperframes render"`, which matches its own loop: each
render took 88-117 s and the wait sat for the tool's full 10 minutes.
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* feat(skills): route each kind of film; storylines carry look and sound; add review and sound
The entry routes by request (launch, explainer, music, data, vertical, 3D,
character) to a self-contained file under references/types/, and a film
over ~15 s now gets music and sounds on its visible actions unless the
person asked for silence. Each storyline names its look and its sound, so
picking one picks both; STORYBOARD.md frames carry `reads` and `sound`.
review.md is the whole-film pass: the check warnings, the review sheets,
seven questions to look for, P0/P1/P2 notes and REVIEW.md. motion.md gains
eases by role, six title entrances, a reading-time rule and nine measured
transitions; look.md a design plan before the first scene, with presets
kept for decks and named picks. story.md adds the second default that
generated design falls into, with what to do instead.
The blank template and format.md no longer teach the fade-and-slide-up
entrance on a dark canvas.
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* feat(cli): check warns on unread lines, dead stretches, small type, empty frame 0 and silence
A coding agent cannot watch its film, so check now measures what a viewer
notices over time. A new `craft` section holds warnings only (exit 0
unless --strict), sampled on the dense 8 fps grid the overlap pass
already seeks, skipped for --range checks:
- line_unread: a reading-size line (>= 30 px tall at 1080) on screen
under 0.4 s for 1-2 words, else under 3/4 of 0.5 s + 0.3 s a word;
the film's last line needs 2 s. Short lines are re-measured between
samples to ~0.01 s before judging. Captions-track and
data-layout-ignore text are exempt.
- dead_stretch: more than 3 s where the keepsMoving liveness signature
does not change, outside the final 3 s and any data-hold element;
quiet when sweep_static fires or a whole-composition keepsMoving
assertion owns the limit.
- text_below_floor: text under 2.6% of the short side (28 px on 1080)
held 0.5 s, one finding per file listing every element.
- first_frame_empty: frame 0 paints only the background.
- film_silent: over 15 s with no unmuted audio or audible video.
Each message names the fix and the skill reference to read. keepsMoving
now also leaves the film's last 3 s (a still end card) out of its
static runs, so the two agree.
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* feat(cli): snapshot --review captures a beat sheet, seam strips and a phone sheet
snapshot --review picks the frames that show a film over time instead of
evenly spaced ones, in the same single browser session:
- review-beats.jpg: one settled frame per scene at its start + 0.3 s,
plus one per timed data-beat="name" element, labelled time and id.
Scenes are the composition's top-level timed clips and sub-composition
hosts, read like `timeline` reads rows (captions and audio excluded)
and timed by the runtime's start resolver over the live page.
- review-seam-NN.jpg: frames at -0.2, -0.1, 0, +0.1, +0.2 s around
every cut (each scene start, and any scene end no scene starts at).
- review-phone.jpg: the beat frames at 360 px wide.
--composition scopes the review to one sub-composition; with fewer than
two scenes the beats spread evenly and a note says so. snapshot also
gains --json: one envelope with every frame's path and time and, under
--review, the scenes, beats and seams behind the sheets; progress moves
to stderr.
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* fix(cli): craft warnings stay out of --strict; a hold gets a real next action, not a caret
Craft findings (unread lines, dead stretches, small type, an empty first
frame, silence) are judgment calls a film may break on purpose, so
--strict keeps gating defects only. The check reference no longer
suggests a blinking caret to keep a still frame moving.
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* fix(cli): review spreads beats when every scene starts together; map credits skip the type floor
A map film whose basemap and overlay both start at 0 s got one beat
frame; the even spread now keys on distinct scene starts. film.md tells
agents to mark the imagery credit data-layout-ignore and back it, since
the new type floor flagged it on the first real run.
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* fix(cli): review frames each scene at its middle too, not only 0.3 s in
On the first real explainer, 0.3 s into a scene showed a bare colour
field before its title entered. Each scene longer than about a second
and a half now adds a frame at its middle, so the sheet shows what the
scene builds.
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* feat(skills): a film is built from a numeric SPEC.md, with defaults banned by name and a look test
Studied in full: flxrnc's Motion Lab (vague vs directed prompt), 0xMovez's
course, EianLu's riso skill, agentchengfeng's style samples and the two
Opus 5.5 guides. Their common point: adjectives are where the default look
lives, so the agent now writes SPEC.md before any scene (GOAL, OUTPUT,
TIME, LOOK, MOTION, SHOTS, BANNED, QA), with a number for every adjective.
spec.md bans the defaults by name, unless the brand or reference uses
them (a dark void with small things floating, glow and particles, the
cream-serif-mono-label look, fade-and-slide-up, corner brackets), and
grows that list after the first render. Each storyline gets a 3 s test of
its hero shot before the pick; a look is written as the rules of one
medium. Composition numbers: the hero fills 40% of the frame, one hero
move per shot, the shot's information in within 2.5 s then a held poster.
motion.md adds springs by damping ratio, shorter exits, overlap, stagger
and the beat grid; review.md reviews as a harsh director and grows BANNED;
vertical.md takes the riso skill's measured safe band; explainer.md the
shapes of information.
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* fix(skills): story before look; every object reads as itself; posters only for info cards
The first spec-driven C02 swapped the dark default for a flat Swiss
poster, and the story went with it: two black bars nobody read as mirrors,
slogans instead of cause and effect, a storyline picked for its picture.
The spec now serves the story: a storyline is picked for the story a
stranger would follow, the look test asks first whether a stranger
understands what they see, and SPEC.md gains an OBJECTS line giving each
thing the material and details that make it read without a label. The
2.5 s held-poster rule is limited to information cards; in a story film
every shot causes the next. Explainers start from a person or situation
the viewer knows. Review names every object as a stranger would and
treats one that needs explaining as a P0.
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* fix(skills): storylines are three films in words, each with a device and a form
The three storylines are pitched as text and the person picks from them;
nothing is built for a storyline before the pick, so the 3 s hero-shot
look test is gone. Ideas pair a device with a form, five or more first,
keeping the three that differ most, and the one stop states the rest in
an assumption line that names every paid item beside its free option.
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* ci: list main's new embedded-captions hf-cli test among the retired workflow files
The merge with main removed it with the rest of the retired skill, and the
deletion guard rejects any removal it has not been told about.
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* fix(core): keep the audio preset comment within core's size budget
The comment's new citation to media-use's mixing reference made the published
package 14 bytes larger than its budget, which sits at main's exact size.
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* fix(cli): craft keeps its own 8 fps grid; comments back within the checks
Review on #5651 found that the merge moved craft onto the overlap pass's
times, which main caps at 180, so a brief line in a long film fell between
samples and line_unread missed it. Craft now builds its own grid at 8 fps up to
600 samples, as before the merge, and a 60 s film with a line shown for 0.2 s
pins it.
The Comments check passes again: REVIEW.md and STORYLINES.md join the files a
skill writes into a project, the comment lines this branch added come back
under each file's share at the merge-base, and the audio preset comment drops
a word the check reads as history.
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* feat(cli): cloud render uploads heavy media as HeyGen assets
Media of 5 MB or more leaves the project zip: it uploads through the
direct-upload flow as a HeyGen asset and the zip's HTML and CSS point at
the asset URL. Uploads are cached by content hash and re-checked before
reuse. Media the asset API refuses or caps is re-encoded at visually
lossless quality first. The zip must end under 200 MB or the command
stops and names the largest files left.
* feat(cli): cloud render offloads GIFs, still images and script-referenced media
Animated GIFs in the entry composition go through the renderer's own GIF
preparation and upload as the resulting video. Still AVIF, GIF, BMP and
TIFF images convert to PNG. Plain string literals in scripts and JSON that
name offloaded media point at the asset URL. ffprobe calls end their
options with "--", and two comment lines are trimmed for the ratchet.
* feat(cli): cloud render uploads only the parts of long media a composition plays
A video or audio file that has to be re-encoded is cut to the union of the
windows its clips play, with half a second of margin on the source's frame
grid, and the staged composition's media starts shift to match. Clips in
sub-compositions, looping clips, speed ramps and files a script names keep
the full file.
* fix(cli): cloud render no longer decodes media files as text when rewriting references
* fix(cli): cloud render keeps media chosen at render time and encodes the staged bytes
Only media a reference points at is offloaded, so a file picked through
--variables or built by a script stays in the zip. Variable-bound clips and
clips with a media fragment keep their full length. Entry GIFs resolve the way
the renderer rebases a nested entry and are prepared only from 5 MB, and every
encode reads the staged bytes its cache key hashes. Query strings and media
fragments survive the rewrite, a null cache file reads as empty, and the docs
say asset URLs are public and unsigned.
* fix(cli): cloud render comments cite only what this repo holds
* fix(cli): cloud render handles media over 2 GiB and explains a too-large upload
Media of 5 MB or more stays on disk until it is used: it is hashed and uploaded
as a stream, and a file edited after staging stops the run instead of caching
the wrong upload. Files left in the zip are sized before any is read, so a
4 GB file reports "too large" instead of crashing.
The asset API rejects an over-limit upload as invalid_parameter with "File too
large"; that now gets the dry-run hint instead of the --help one.
* fix(cli): cloud render checks and reads each staged file through one handle
Staging, the on-disk staged read and the re-encoded output read each opened the
path twice: once to stat, once to read. A file swapped or edited between the two
could be read without the size or change check seeing it. Each now opens once,
checks the open file's stat before and after the read, and reads from it.
* test(cli): a heavy file a script builds from split strings stays in the cloud render zip
* fix(cli): cloud render keeps media scripts may reach and never trims clips scripts retime
- An offloaded file keeps its zip copy when script code holds both its stem and
extension, so a path joined at runtime still loads.
- Entry GIFs are prepared from a private copy checked against the staged file,
so the GIF cache never stores a later edit.
- No cut when any script can write a clip's timing attributes, dataset,
currentTime, playbackRate, src or loop.
* chore: release v0.8.182
* chore: list #5953 in the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add #5843, #5932 and #5945 to the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add #5923, #5943, #5956, #5960, #5961, #5963, #5964 and #5966 to the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add #5972, #5977, #5981 and #5982 to the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add the 13 PRs merged since the last refresh to the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add #6003, #6005 and #5579 to the v0.8.182 notes
* chore: add #6006 to the v0.8.182 notes
* fix(producer): disk-space error suggests --workers 1 only when one worker would stream
* test(producer): streaming-stage suite mocks the new streaming-gate export
captureStage now asks explainStreamingEncodeGate for the disk-space remedy;
the bun module mock of renderOrchestrator in captureStreamingStage.test.ts
lacked it, so the suite failed at import.
* perf(cli): commands run without esbuild, puppeteer-core or sharp until they need them
A host that bundles the CLI can now leave these packages out: each command
loads them only where it uses them, and sharp installs once on first use when
it is missing. The build check fails on any static import of them again.
* fix(cli): use a host's sharp from NODE_PATH and let hosts turn first-use installs off
* fix(cli): capture fails when sharp is missing, and one install serves every caller
A missing sharp now stops the asset download up front instead of counting every
image as unavailable. Concurrent first uses share one install, a failed install
is not retried in the same run, and preview thumbnails report why. Hosts can turn
off installs for a list of packages, e.g. HYPERFRAMES_NO_OPTIONAL_INSTALL=sharp.
* fix(cli): snapshot --describe still works without sharp, resizing only when it is installed
* style(cli): format the sharp loader and its tests
* build(cli): sharp is an optional dependency, so a host can ship the CLI without it
* build(studio-server): keep sharp out of the bundle now that it is optional
* chore: release v0.8.180
* docs(release): describe chunk sub-ranges as groundwork for split retries
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* chore: release v0.8.180 notes list the empty-frame fix
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Co-authored-by: Miguel Ángel <miguel.sierra@heygen.com>
* feat(cli): lambda deploy works from the npm install, no repo checkout
Each release builds the Lambda handler zip on Linux, attaches it to the
GitHub release, and pins its URL and sha256 (plus the SAM template) in
@hyperframes/aws-lambda before npm publish. Outside a checkout, lambda
deploy downloads that zip, refuses it on a sha256 mismatch, and deploys
it with the packaged template. With neither a checkout nor a pinned zip
it fails up front with one message naming every way out.
* fix(cli): lambda deploy test mocks the pinned-handler reader, comments fit the checks
* test(cli): sam tests deploy from a SAM directory, not the repo root
* chore(aws-lambda): raise the package size budget for the pinned handler template
Measured with pnpm@10.17.1 pack on Linux. Release state (prebuilt/ written by pin-handler-zip): 77,307 packed / 285,654 unpacked. CI state (no prebuilt/): 70,104 / 253,390. Packed is the check's 5% headroom over the release size. Unpacked is 292,000 (2.2% over release) because a 5% budget would put the CI pack under the 85% ratchet.
* test(cli): anchor the docs link check in the lambda deploy fallback test
* fix(cli): lambda deploy logs the verified handler sha256 and keeps a presigned query out of errors
* fix(cli): a redirect-limit download error keeps a signed query out of its message
* test(cli): the redirect-limit leak test types its rejection
* docs(aws-lambda): header comments cut to what the code cannot say
* chore(aws-lambda): size budget fits both the CI and the release package
* fix(aws-lambda): old stacks are refused before any upload; stale local copies never re-upload
* docs(aws-lambda): where the CLI keeps a deployed stack's state
* perf(producer): distributed chunks download only the videos they show
A project video under compiled/ that chunks extract their own frames from
now goes only to the chunks that show it, like video-sources/ files. A
chunk skips the readiness wait for a deferred video it does not show, so
it no longer logs media_load_failed for a file it was never given.
* fix(producer): cloud site uploads pack the files their id hashes, symlinks included
* perf(aws-lambda): chunks read only the byte ranges of a video they need
A chunk that extracts its own frames from a deferred project video now
reads it from S3 by byte range through a short-lived pre-signed URL,
instead of downloading and hashing the whole object first. S3 attests the
object's stored SHA-256 before the URL is signed; every other artifact is
still downloaded and verified as before.
* perf(aws-lambda): upload project files once to a shared content-addressed area
* chore(producer): keep planV2 comment share at the base level
* fix(engine): verify the TLS certificate of https video inputs and never surface their signed query
* fix(aws-lambda): renders re-upload a site's expired files instead of failing
* perf(aws-lambda): the plan step probes project videos in place instead of downloading them
* fix(engine): https video reads reconnect and time out, and redaction covers wrapped causes
Signed-URL reads now pass -rw_timeout, -reconnect and -reconnect_delay_max (both Lambda builds accept them) and ffmpeg also -reconnect_on_network_error, so a transient S3 error or a stalled read fails fast or recovers instead of waiting out the process timeout. Query redaction now descends into error.cause.
* fix(aws-lambda): share entry bundles and ratchet package budget
* fix(aws-lambda): site ids uploaded before files.json still render
A site id from an earlier sites create has only sites/<id>/project.tar.gz.
renderToLambda now falls back to that tarball, which the plan step still
reads, and when neither key exists it fails before starting with both keys
named and the fix (run sites create again).
* fix(aws-lambda): renders fail before upload on a stack too old to read sites
A stack deployed before files.json sites untars the site file in its plan
step and fails after four retries. renderToLambda now reads the state
machine definition first and stops with STACK_TOO_OLD and the redeploy
command when the plan task does not list SITE_MANIFEST_INVALID, which new
SAM and CDK stacks now treat as terminal. The README's upgrade section
drops the planProtocol v1 fallback, which hits the same failure.
* docs(aws-lambda): document shared content storage and the upgrade path
The deploy guide still described the tarball HeadObject short-circuit. It
now covers the cas/sha256/ store and its 30-day lifecycle rule, the
STACK_TOO_OLD, SITE_FILES_MISSING and SITE_NOT_FOUND errors, that old site
ids keep working, and that every project uploads once more after the
upgrade. A test keeps a troubleshooting entry for each pre-submit error.
* fix(producer): chunks log each video they read by URL, without its query
A chunk reading a video straight from the bucket left no trace in its log.
It now logs one line per remote source with the path and the URL minus its
query string, so signatures never reach the log.
* fix(engine): ffmpeg errors never keep part of a signed URL's query
A process's stderr tail was trimmed before its URLs were redacted, so a
cut inside a signed URL left a query fragment the URL pattern no longer
matched, and the fragment reached the error. The stderr tail is now
redacted before every trim, and the redactor also strips a signing
parameter cut off from its URL.
* fix(aws-lambda): comments name the site manifest instead of a file path
* fix(engine): stderr redaction survives chunk splits, and every ffmpeg spawn uses it
The stderr tail was redacted on each chunk and then cut, so once a cut
severed a long URL's scheme, the rest of its signature in the next chunk
matched neither pattern. The tail is now kept raw with 2x slack and
redacted only when the text is produced, then cut to size. The unused
producer audioExtractor (its own spawn, unredacted stderr) is deleted and
the parity harness's PCM decode goes through ManagedChildProcess; a test
fails on any ffmpeg/ffprobe spawn in engine, producer or aws-lambda that
does not.
* chore(producer): record the audioExtractor deletion as intended
* fix(engine): drop a signature fragment the stderr tail cut from its URL
The raw tail is kept at twice the cap, but that cut can itself land inside a
signature, and when redaction shrinks the rest below the cap the fragment
survived. After a cut, the severed token is dropped before redaction.
* refactor(engine): name the severed-token drop instead of commenting it
* test(engine): a cut-off URL leaves nothing behind; aws-lambda size budget to measured
* fix(producer): chunk URL-read tests use main's frame list; producer size budget to measured
* chore(producer): size budget at the measured size, no headroom
* chore(producer): size budget back to measured x1.05, the check's own rule
* docs(changelog): weekly digest 2026-10-12-2026-10-19
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: embed the Oct12-19 weekly changelog video
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* fix(cli): non-English transcription reaches whisper, and whisper failures say why
transcribe --language <non-English> runs an installed whisper (Parakeet picks its own language); whisper models are pinned by size and sha256 and re-downloaded when damaged; a whisper-cli failure names its build, model file and last stderr lines without paths; the unused --dtw flag is dropped.
* docs(cli): --engine and --language say a non-English language runs an installed whisper
Also strips paths that follow a colon or a bracket from whisper-cli's error tail.
* fix(cli): snapshot no longer transcodes every iPhone clip it never plays
snapshot served Studio's media proxies by default, so its page server transcoded every browser-hostile clip (every HEVC clip) in full at load. Snapshots show frames extracted with FFmpeg and never use those copies. Proxies are now served only with --proxy; hyperframes.json media.autoProxy no longer turns them on for snapshots.
* docs: snapshot makes no media proxy unless asked
* fix(cli): timeline delete --start/--end removes only that range
timeline delete accepted --start and --end but never read them, so a range
delete removed the whole clip. It now cuts out only that range, the same way
split, split, delete would, and keeps the parts before and after.
Every edit verb shared one flag set, so a verb silently ignored flags it does
not use. Each verb now declares only the options it reads, from one table that
also checks apply-plan keys, so an unused flag or key is refused before
anything is written.
* refactor(cli): name the per-verb option table instead of commenting it
* perf(aws-lambda): run chunks through a Distributed Map to lift the 40-chunk cap
The inline Map runs at most 40 chunk renders at once. Both state machine
definitions (CDK and SAM) now use a Distributed Map with STANDARD child
executions, capped at the function's reserved concurrency so chunks past it
queue instead of being throttled. Progress reads each chunk's child
execution history so frames, cost and chunk errors still show up.
* fix(aws-lambda): retry Lambda throttles for minutes and stop on oversized chunks
A throttled task used to burn its four catch-all retries in about 30 s.
It now gets its own jittered backoff of several minutes, because another
render on the same function can still hold the reserved slots. Plan
treats CHUNK_EXCEEDS_WORKER_TIMEOUT as terminal in both definitions.
* chore(aws-lambda): trim stack comments to keep the comment share flat
* fix(aws-lambda): keep render --wait working at hundreds of chunks
Progress polls read the chunk Map Run's counts (one DescribeMapRun) instead of
every child execution's history, take exact chunk frames and cost from the Map
output once it exits, and read failed children only when the counts show a
failure. The SDK client retries throttled calls up to 8 times with backoff.
* feat(aws-lambda): size each render's concurrency to the account instead of a fixed 8
* fix(lambda): keep the concurrency SDK external in published modules
* fix(cli): keep an existing stack's reserved concurrency on redeploy
Redeploying without --concurrency sent ReservedConcurrency=-1, which
removed the cap of 8 that earlier CLI versions reserved by default and
stopped recording it in the state file. The override is now left out
when the flag is omitted, so SAM keeps the stack's current value (a new
stack still gets the template's unreserved default). The state file
records the deployed value, and deploy prints the kept reservation.
* fix(aws-lambda): keep progress working for callers without DescribeMapRun
Callers whose IAM policy came from an earlier `lambda policies user`
lack states:DescribeMapRun, so reading a running Distributed Map threw
AccessDeniedException out of `lambda progress` and `render --wait`
while the render itself went on to succeed. getRenderProgress now
catches only that error around the map-run read, returns the parent
snapshot (status, plan and assemble progress) and adds a warning to
re-apply the policy, which both commands print. Other errors still
throw.
* fix(cli): let the documented deploy policy drop a reserved concurrency
When a redeploy removes a function's reserved concurrency, CloudFormation
calls lambda:DeleteFunctionConcurrency. The policy printed by
`lambda policies role|user` granted only PutFunctionConcurrency, so the
update failed and rolled back. Grant it, and pin it with
states:DescribeMapRun in the required-actions test.
* fix(aws-lambda): read smoke chunk hashes from the Distributed Map output
With chunks in a Distributed Map, their task results live in child
executions, so the smoke gate's chunk-hash check found 0 chunks in the
parent history and failed every v1/v2 comparison. Read Chunks[] from the
RenderChunks / RenderChunksV2 MapStateExited output instead, as
getRenderProgress does. The stack this script deploys only has the
Distributed Map, so the inline-Map path is gone.
* fix(producer): cap a pinned chunk size at the worker concurrency, not 16
With --chunk-size or --target-chunk-frames and no --max-parallel-chunks,
the plan still capped the render at 16 chunks however many workers the
account allowed, so --chunk-size 30 on a 60 s render gave 16 chunks of
113 frames. The cap is now one wave across the worker concurrency, as
the --max-parallel-chunks docs say; 16 remains when the concurrency is
unknown.
* feat(cli): remove a stack's reserved concurrency with --concurrency=none
Since an omitted --concurrency now keeps the stack's reservation, there
was no CLI way back to the unreserved default. --concurrency=none sends
ReservedConcurrency=-1, the state file records the stack as unreserved
and deploy says the reservation was removed. Positive N and an omitted
flag behave as before; any other value is rejected instead of being
silently ignored.
* chore(aws-lambda): raise the package size budget for account-sized concurrency
Measured with pnpm@10.17.1 pack after rebasing on main with the S3 assembly change: 67,763 packed / 244,685 unpacked; the budget is the check's own 5% headroom over that.
* fix(core): color grading applies to canvas compositions
data-color-grading on a <canvas> was ignored by the runtime and refused by
lint, the Studio panel and the CLI writer. One source-tag list in the grading
contract now feeds all of them. A canvas is sized from its drawing buffer and
re-uploaded on every seek and transport tick.
* fix(core): keep the comment share of grading files at the base
* perf(cli): cloud render checks render status every 2 seconds instead of 10
A finished render was noticed up to 10 s late. Polling every 2 s cuts that
wait to at most 2 s and stays well under the status endpoint's rate limit.
`--poll-interval` still overrides it.
* perf(cli): cloud render downloads the finished video over parallel connections
The first request asks for the first 8 MB. When the server answers 206 with
the full size, the rest of the file is fetched in up to 7 more ranged
requests at once and each part is written at its offset into the staged
file. A server that ignores Range (200), a small file, or an empty file
is still fetched in one request. A failed part cancels the others and the
existing output is kept, as before.
* fix(studio): keep a preview reload waiting while a slow project boots
Studio gives a reload up to three 15 s budgets, but the player failed it at
8 s and Studio's own 5 s safety net stopped listening for the runtime. A host
can now own the load deadline (no-load-timeout); script and runtime errors
still fail at once.
* fix(player): send the 8 s load deadline through the probe's one error path
Lambda and Cloud Run renders refused 25 fps although it is an integer
rate like 24, 30 and 60, and PAL footage is 25 fps. The distributed fps
set is now {24, 25, 30, 60} in the producer's config validation, the
plan v2 manifest, the render request mapping, the Lambda and Cloud Run
event types, the CLI's lambda and cloudrun commands and the regression
harnesses.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
skills update (bare or named) and bare skills now exit 0 with a one-line
notice instead of installing or pruning when HYPERFRAMES_SKIP_SKILLS=1, so a
pinned skills install survives the router's trigger-time update. Closes#5695.
* fix(cli): timeline lists clips nested in a timed element and lint flags ones that never show
* docs(lint): wrap the nested-clip entries
* docs(skills): format the nested-clip note and refresh the skills manifest
* fix(cli): keep timeline edits from colliding with a clip's own wrapper
* fix(cli): cut clips nested in a wrapper at their sub-composition's in-point
* refactor(lint): split the nested-clip visibility checks to keep the audit green
* style(cli): restore the timeline test's formatting
Miguel Ángel