## Summary
- Anti-default: don't draw real-world objects with SVG paths — they look crude. Geometric shapes and abstract forms only.
- Anti-default: every element needs clear space — overlapping text is always ugly.
- Replaced zoom-in monoculture in choreography — now offers 6 ambient motion options instead of always zooming.
- Added scene pacing: build/breathe/resolve phases.
Follow-up to the house style PR (#59, merged). These fixes came from visual review of 20+ eval compositions.
## Test plan
- [ ] Generate a composition with a sparse prompt and verify no SVG illustrations of real objects
- [ ] Verify elements don't overlap in generated compositions
- [ ] Verify ambient motion varies (not always zoom-in)
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* feat(cli): non-interactive by default, --human-friendly for UI
Following ElevenLabs CLI pattern: default mode is agent-friendly
(flag-driven, plain text output, fail fast on missing args).
Interactive clack UI is opt-in via --human-friendly.
Init command:
- --template required in default mode (errors with example if missing)
- --video / --audio flags for media input
- --skip-skills / --skip-transcribe to control optional steps
- --human-friendly enables the existing interactive prompts
- --help shows examples for every flag combination
- Transcription runs automatically in default mode (unless --skip-transcribe)
- Plain console.log output, process.exit(1) on errors
Skills command:
- Added --human-friendly flag
- Added examples to --help output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): improve --help documentation and add --yes/--check to upgrade
- upgrade: add --yes and --check flags to skip interactive prompt
- benchmark: clarify description — preset fps/quality/worker configs
- browser: describe each subcommand (ensure/path/clear) in help
- docs: list available topics inline in --help output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skill): add house style guide with motion defaults, palettes, and anti-defaults
When no visual-style.md is provided, compose-video now follows house-style.md
for professional output quality. Includes:
- Motion: easing variety, timing, entrance patterns, choreography
- Sizing: text scale contrast, element fill, travel distance
- Visual depth: gradient/shadow/texture guidance
- Typography: weight contrast, tracking, case
- Anti-defaults: table of generic AI patterns to avoid
- 72 curated color palettes across 9 categories
- Content interpretation: generate real content, not prompt text
Eval-validated across 5 iterations with 50+ test compositions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skill): add container anti-default and typography guidance
- Anti-default: discourage card/container patterns in favor of content
placed directly on canvas (professional video style vs web UI style)
- Typography section: weight contrast, deliberate case, tracking, one
typeface at two weights
- Visual depth: softened to avoid templating (content-appropriate, not
every-composition-the-same)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skill): add scene pacing guidance to house style
Three-phase composition structure: build (staggered entrances),
breathe (subtle motion to keep holds alive), resolve (fast exits
with intention). Prevents front-loading all animation into the
first second and dead static holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(skill): replace zoom-in monoculture with ambient motion variety
The viewport scale and end emphasis code examples were being copied
verbatim to every composition. Now offers 6 ambient motion options
(pan, rotation, scale in/out, parallax, color shift, stillness) and
4 ending options instead of always zooming.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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