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ukimsanovandClaude Opus 4.7 e47bc6c6db fix(skill): w2h audit — resolve contradictions, path issues, missing fallbacks
10 fixes from an audit of skills/website-to-hyperframes/ targeting clarity for
AI agents following the pipeline. Each fix is a surgical edit; no behavior
changes for human readers.

**Critical contradictions resolved:**
- capabilities.md: `onUpdate`/`tl.call` was simultaneously documented as required
  (canvas/WebGL/typing patterns) and banned (determinism). Sub-agents reading
  the ban would silently strip working code from Canvas 2D and Three.js beats.
- step-1-design.md: Removed "Depth & Elevation" section template that the same
  file's Rules section forbade. Renumbered remaining sections (6→5).
- beat-builder-guide.md: Narrowed "no onUpdate for counters" rule so canvas
  rendering loops aren't caught by the prohibition.

**Path resolution fixes for sub-agents:**
Sub-agents run from `<project-dir>` (e.g. videos/foo/), not repo root, so
repo-relative paths like `skills/website-to-hyperframes/assets/sfx/manifest.json`
fail silently. Replaced with `find / -path ...` patterns that work from any CWD.
- step-3-storyboard.md: sfx/manifest.json + text-effects.md paths
- step-5-build.md: beat-builder-guide.md path

**Missing fallbacks added:**
- step-3-storyboard.md Gate: autonomous mode now propagates from Step 2 — gate
  no longer blocks on explicit approval when user said "surprise me".
- step-4-vo.md: timing-formula recalibration now has concrete steps for both
  "too short" (add pauses) and "too long" (cut highest-density beat).
- step-6-validate.md: agent-authored descriptions fallback when GEMINI_API_KEY
  is unavailable — DoD checklist no longer has a dead end.

**Quick Reference polish:**
- SKILL.md: step-1-design entry now mentions 50-line fast-path exception.

8 files changed, +32/-37 (net -5 lines). Format checks pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-21 17:57:08 -07:00
ukimsanov 0253c2ccc8 fix(skill)!: reference pixel-point/animate-text — stop vendoring
Per James and Miguel's review feedback:
  James: "you can only reference the skill or recreate things"
  Miguel: "I'd just reference the skill without trying to copy
           everything"
  James: "we can't vendor their artifacts in our own repo"

The 48 vendored text-effects JSON files were direct copies from
pixel-point/animate-text (verified: typewriter.json matches the
upstream byte-for-byte at duration_ms: 240, stagger_ms: 46,
easing: steps(1, end)). That repo has no LICENSE file, so the
files default to "all rights reserved" — Apache 2.0 redistribution
in our repo is a compliance violation.

The earlier "rewrite from scratch" attempt produced JSON that
didn't render correctly (7 of 24 effects broke when I built a demo
HTML to validate them). Rather than keep iterating on a rewrite
that doesn't match the upstream's calibration, this commit drops
the vendored files entirely and updates skill prose to REFERENCE
the upstream skill instead.

### Changes

- Delete `skills/hyperframes/assets/text-effects/` (48 JSON files
  + the dual-directory structure, 8451 lines).
- Rewrite `skills/hyperframes/references/text-effects.md` as a
  reference page that:
  - Names pixel-point/animate-text as the source of truth
  - Explains why we don't ship the catalog (licensing gap)
  - Tells sub-agents to load `/animate-text` via Claude Code skill
    invocation or `npx skills add pixel-point/animate-text`
  - Lists the 24 effect IDs by category as vocabulary (so agents
    can name effects in STORYBOARD.md before loading the upstream)
  - Documents the fallback path: implement from name + GSAP
    knowledge if the upstream skill isn't available
- Update 5 cross-references to reframe the catalog as upstream-
  referenced instead of repo-bundled:
  - skills/hyperframes/references/techniques.md (TOC pointer)
  - skills/hyperframes/references/beat-direction.md (text-anim
    guidance bullet)
  - skills/website-to-hyperframes/references/capabilities.md
    (registry-overview entry)
  - skills/website-to-hyperframes/references/step-3-storyboard.md
    (storyboard template + Text Animations section format)
  - skills/website-to-hyperframes/references/beat-builder-guide.md
    (references table row)

### What sub-agents see

Before: read `text-effects.md` → see 24 named effects → read each
spec from in-repo `assets/text-effects/effects/<id>.json`.

After: read `text-effects.md` → see 24 named IDs and a load
instruction → invoke `/animate-text` (or `npx skills add
pixel-point/animate-text`) → read each spec from
`.agents/skills/animate-text/assets/effects/<id>.json` (the
upstream's own files, not vendored copies).

End-user UX cost: one extra `npx skills add` for projects that
want the deterministic catalog. Or accept the fallback where
sub-agents implement from effect name + GSAP knowledge — works
fine for simple effects, less ideal for the 3 layout-aware ones
(kinetic-center-build, short-slide-right, short-slide-down).

Net diff on #991: -8488 lines.
2026-05-21 11:09:31 -07:00
ukimsanov 24aef5475c fix(skill): eval feedback — font src paths, WCAG pairings, flash-through-white regression
Five fixes from Ular's first-pass workflow run:

1. step-1-design.md Fonts section — sub-agents pointed @font-face for
   "ES Build Neutral" at the Inter .woff2 files because DESIGN.md
   only named families, never emitted exact src: paths. Now the
   Fonts section example shows per-family + per-weight file paths
   AND a copy-verbatim @font-face block sub-agents can paste, so
   there's no inference step. Adds an explicit narrative of the
   real failure mode and how to avoid it.

2. beat-builder-guide.md FONTS rule — was "brand fonts with
   capture/assets/fonts/ path need @font-face in <style>." Now:
   "copy the @font-face block VERBATIM from DESIGN.md. Do NOT guess
   which .woff2 file belongs to which family — capture filenames
   are content-hashed and there is no visible mapping. If DESIGN.md
   doesn't include exact src: paths per family, STOP and ask the
   main agent; never pair an arbitrary .woff2 with a family name
   from memory."

3. step-1-design.md Colors section — Sub-agents reproduced brand
   colors faithfully and hit WCAG AA failures on dark surfaces
   (#68686A on #18191B = 3.16:1). Now the Colors section example
   computes per-pairing contrast ratios with /⚠/ markers,
   documents the dark-surface substitute color when the brand's own
   palette fails, and points at the /hyperframes-contrast skill for
   ratio computation. Sub-agents pick text colors by surface
   context, not by "this is the brand's secondary text color."

4. capabilities.md flash-through-white entry — the "ideal as
   invisible bridge at duration: 0.01" framing caused agents to
   scatter white flashes through every composition as transition
   bridges. The fix was documented in the branch's HANDOFF but
   never landed. Now: "Fade through white midpoint — a visible
   white flash between scenes. Use only when the brand specifically
   calls for a white-flash beat boundary; this is NOT a neutral
   'default' transition."

5. step-6-validate.md Warnings list — adds a paragraph on WCAG
   contrast false positives. The validator samples at fixed
   timestamps; elements at opacity:0 / mid-fade get measured as if
   fully visible, producing spurious failures. Tells the agent to
   verify visually before changing colors to clear a WCAG warning
   — bumping a color to fix a sampling artifact changes brand
   identity for no real benefit.
2026-05-21 11:08:52 -07:00
ukimsanov 7093ee900b refactor(skill): slim SKILL.md to step-pointer index, push to step files
SKILL.md grew to 192 lines from a 124-line baseline. Most of the
bloat was content duplicated in the step reference files it points
to. Removed 6 sections that duplicated step content, composed 2
small additions into the step files where they actually belonged.

Removed from SKILL.md (already covered elsewhere):

- "Take your time" / "Quality matters more than speed" paragraph
  — operational philosophy already implicit in step-6-validate's
  cell-by-cell review prose.
- "Creative Tension Principle" section — step-3-storyboard.md:21
  already has the exact "What makes this video different from a
  generic [video type] for any [industry] brand?" single-sentence
  test. Duplicate removed; storyboard is the right home.
- "Step -1: What we're actually making" (30 lines: anti-patterns,
  video grammar, shot framing, camera moves) — duplicates step-3-
  storyboard.md:197+ (shot types), :229–232 (anti-patterns), and
  beat-builder-guide.md:126+ (shot framing).
- "Sub-agent mode" + "No sub-agents" preamble — step-5-build.md:286
  –292 already handles both parallel and serial runtimes.
- "Image-viewing capability" warning — operationally implicit in
  step-0 ("View the contact sheets") and step-6 ("View snapshots/
  contact-sheet.jpg cell-by-cell").
- "User Interaction Points" table — redundant with the inline 💬
  markers on Steps 3 and 4.

Composed into step files (content that wasn't there yet):

- step-1-design.md "Target length" paragraph: added the fast-pacing
  / billboard-per-beat exception (50-line DESIGN.md is enough when
  beats are single hero elements on full-bleed backgrounds, not
  full UIs).
- step-2-brief.md "Surprise me" section: added the global-propagation
  rule — when the user signals autonomous mode at Step 2, every 💬
  gate downstream (Step 3 storyboard approval, Step 4 TTS choice) is
  also skipped.

Step 5 SKILL.md gate paragraph trimmed from a 6-clause description
of the per-beat read to one line that points at step-5-build.md
for the full checklist.

Updated the techniques.md reference counts from "20" to "13" in
SKILL.md, beat-builder-guide.md, and step-3-storyboard.md to match
the techniques.md trim in the upstream branch.

Net: SKILL.md 192 → 131 lines.
2026-05-21 11:08:51 -07:00
ukimsanov 051c9c9de4 chore(skill): drop visual-vocabulary.md + use published npx hyperframes
- Delete `references/visual-vocabulary.md` and scrub the four call
  sites that referenced it. The 6-axis lookup framing it introduced
  contradicted the rest of the skill's "design from the brand, not
  from a table" stance.
- Replace all `npx tsx packages/cli/src/cli.ts <cmd>` invocations
  with `npx hyperframes <cmd>` in step-0-capture.md, step-5-build.md,
  step-6-validate.md, and beat-builder-guide.md. The capture- and
  snapshot-pipeline improvements that previously required the local
  CLI now ship in the published CLI via the stack's PRs #987 and
  #988, so once the stack lands the published CLI is the right
  invocation for the skill prose.
- Remove the now-contradictory "ALWAYS use the local CLI — never
  npx hyperframes" warnings in step-0-capture.md and step-6-validate.md.
2026-05-21 11:08:51 -07:00
ukimsanov a1ffb6e7bf feat(skill): website-to-hyperframes — concept-first authoring + per-beat read protocol
Rewrite of the website-to-hyperframes skill that came out of 11
evaluation rounds. The honest read of those evals: prose-only
guidance had hit its ceiling — sub-agents kept reporting "0 errors,
looks good" without doing the work, producing slideshow-quality
videos with mismatched brand colors, missing logos, and beats that
didn't serve the storyboard. This restructure addresses the
failure modes that real videos showed, not theoretical ones.

**Step structure (replaces 7-step layout with concept-first 6-step)**

Old: capture → design → script → storyboard → vo → build → validate
New: capture → design → brief → storyboard → vo → build → validate

The brief step (Step 2) is new: a conversation-shaped step that
aligns message + audience + arc before any beat-writing happens.
Concept-first throughout — message → arc → beats that serve the arc
→ which assets and techniques bring each beat to life.

**Step 0 (capture)**

- "View the contact sheets — carefully, every cell, not a glance"
  closes the failure mode where agents reported "viewed the contact
  sheet" after one scroll and later wrote beats referencing assets
  that didn't exist or missed the brand logo.
- Names the right artifacts to read in order (tokens.json →
  design-styles.json → asset-descriptions.md → fonts-manifest.json),
  with read-on-demand guidance for the rest.

**Step 1 (design)**

- DESIGN.md authoring guide. Restored component CSS sections
  (Component Stylings, Spacing & Layout, Depth & Elevation) that
  earlier batches over-collapsed.

**Step 2 (brief)**

- Strategy/messaging step. Clear instruction for "Surprise me" /
  minimal direction: state the minimum context (where the video
  runs, who it's for) and proceed bold.

**Step 3 (storyboard + script)**

- Concept gate at the top — answer "what makes this video distinct"
  before writing beat 1.
- Brand-floor MUST rules (logo in opener + closer; signature visual
  somewhere in the video).
- Captured assets (SVG logos, illustrations, hero art, gradients)
  are first-class beat content alongside composed UIs — many of
  them carry beats outright. The constraint is only that you start
  from the message, not the asset inventory.

**Step 4 (vo)**

- TTS ranking: HeyGen first (auto word timestamps), ElevenLabs
  second, Kokoro free. Audio timing reconciliation gate: if actual
  audio duration ≠ storyboard planned ±15%, rescale beats or trim
  script before Step 5.

**Step 5 (build) + beat-builder-guide.md**

- Sub-agent template now pastes brand values inline rather than
  telling the sub-agent to re-read DESIGN.md. Targeted file reads
  with specific sections + line ranges.
- "Patterns that ARE shots" affirmative list (captured logo
  draw-on, hero illustration push-in, captured screenshot with
  parallax layers, kinetic typography over captured asset).
- Webpage-mimicry patterns (full CSS browser chrome, parked-camera
  composition, ±2px breathing motion) marked ⚠ rather than  —
  fine when the storyboard genuinely calls for them as the subject.
- Required cinematography per beat: shot type, camera move, depth
  strategy, purpose.

**Step 6 (validate) — per-beat read protocol**

This replaces the previous "spawn verify-beats CLI" gate. A grep
of composition HTML can catch structural lies (missing hex codes,
wrong asset paths) but it can't catch boring beats, off-screen
logos, GSAP timelines that only cover the first 2 seconds, or
camera moves that don't match the storyboard. Those failures only
surface when somebody opens the file and reads it.

Per-beat verdict template names the brand hex codes used, captured
asset paths referenced, headline `font-size`, GSAP timeline
coverage, and storyboard alignment. Critic sub-agent scores a
"Captured asset utilization" dimension specifically so the eval
captures whether captured SVGs/illustrations carried beats or got
recreated as divs.

**Asset bundle**

- 20 Pixabay-licensed SFX files with `CREDITS.md` documenting
  provenance. SFX assignment moved to Step 3 (creative decision)
  so Step 5 implements rather than improvises.
- Capabilities reference + html-in-canvas-patterns updated:
  Three.js 0.181.2 + ESM jsm imports, mulberry32 seeded PRNG for
  deterministic shatter, 24-effect text-animation catalog
  referenced (catalog itself lands in the hyperframes-skill PR).
- Visual vocabulary rewritten: replaces user-word lookup tables
  with brand-first derivation across 6 axes; user words land as
  modifiers, not replacements.
2026-05-21 11:08:51 -07:00