## Problem
Two newly reported runtime issues break common local workflows:
- Fixes#615: `<hyperframes-player loop>` reaches the final frame, receives a paused runtime state, and stays paused instead of wrapping.
- Fixes#616: `hyperframes render` can finish writing the output and print `Render complete`, but still remain alive when a non-essential handle keeps Node's event loop open.
The catalog block also used old VPN branding and slug/file names that should now be neutral. Renaming registry items also exposed a catalog-preview CI bug where deleted registry paths were treated as still-renderable changed items.
## What this fixes
- detects player completion from the previous playing state before mutating the parent `_paused` cache from the runtime's final state
- wraps looping players back to `0` and immediately resumes playback even when the runtime posts `isPlaying: false` at the end frame
- keeps non-looping players dispatching the existing `ended` flow
- lets the CLI command path schedule a short unref'd `process.exit(0)` after a successful local or Docker render
- keeps `renderLocal()` importable for tests and internal callers without forcing process exit unless the CLI command explicitly opts in
- adds regression coverage for the player loop end-state and successful render exit scheduling
- renames the VPN catalog block to `vpn-youtube-spot` across registry, docs route, install command, composition filename, asset filename, composition id, and timeline key
- keeps visible block/app copy friendly and named `VPN`
- updates catalog-preview CI to ignore deleted registry paths when computing changed preview items
## Root cause
The player message handler updated `_paused = !data.isPlaying` before checking for end-of-composition loop behavior. The runtime's legitimate final-frame state has `isPlaying: false`, so the existing `currentTime >= duration && !paused` loop branch was skipped.
For render completion, the CLI returned after `printRenderComplete()`, leaving process lifetime entirely to Node's active handles. Most local renders in this checkout drain cleanly, but the reported npm flow shows a sleeping parent process after output is already complete. The CLI now schedules a short unref'd successful exit only from the command path after user-visible render work has completed.
The catalog block issue was content/metadata drift: registry/docs/code identifiers still used the old slug, so the catalog route, install command, composition id, file names, and source prompt did not match the requested neutral VPN naming. The preview workflow used plain `git diff --name-only`, which includes deleted paths during renames; it now filters to added/copied/modified/renamed live paths.
## Verification
### Local checks
- `bun run build:hyperframes-runtime`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/player test -- src/hyperframes-player.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test -- src/commands/render.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/player typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/player/src/hyperframes-player.ts packages/player/src/hyperframes-player.test.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.test.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/player/src/hyperframes-player.ts packages/player/src/hyperframes-player.test.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/player build`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio build`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli build`
- `bunx oxfmt --check registry/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot/vpn-youtube-spot.html registry/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot/registry-item.json registry/registry.json docs/catalog/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot.mdx docs/docs.json docs/public/catalog-index.json`
- `bunx oxlint registry/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot/vpn-youtube-spot.html registry/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot/registry-item.json registry/registry.json docs/catalog/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot.mdx docs/docs.json docs/public/catalog-index.json`
- `bunx oxfmt --check .github/workflows/catalog-previews.yml`
- `BASE_SHA=26b8e2a9853eb1a8f77c05fb0c8f0903cdb2cf18; git diff --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR "$BASE_SHA"...HEAD -- registry/blocks/ registry/components/ ...` returns only `vpn-youtube-spot`
- `npx tsx scripts/sync-schemas.ts --check`
- `npx mint validate` from `docs/`
- `npx mint broken-links` from `docs/`
- `git diff --check`
- Lefthook pre-commit: format pass
- Lefthook commit-msg: commitlint pass
### Browser verification
- Built the player bundle and served a real local reproduction using the built player, the built HyperFrames runtime, and GSAP.
- Used `agent-browser` to open the page, click `Seek near end`, and wait through the end-frame transition.
- Verified the browser state after playback: `stuck=false`, `looped=true`, and playback continued after wrapping from ~4s back to the start.
- Served `registry/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot/vpn-youtube-spot.html` locally, used `agent-browser` to seek the timeline, and verified `window.__timelines` contains `vpn-youtube-spot`, not `goonvpn-youtube-spot`.
- Served the docs locally with Mintlify, opened `/catalog/blocks/vpn-youtube-spot`, and verified the install command is `npx hyperframes add vpn-youtube-spot` with no old slug visible.
### Composition verification
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli dev lint /var/folders/3n/hxk3qmnd0tl284jtcy66w6dw0000gn/T/hf-vpn-renamed-w027if` returned 0 errors and 1 existing large-composition warning.
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli dev validate /var/folders/3n/hxk3qmnd0tl284jtcy66w6dw0000gn/T/hf-vpn-renamed-w027if --timeout 5000` returned 0 console errors; it reported existing non-fatal contrast audit warnings from the block styling.
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli dev render /var/folders/3n/hxk3qmnd0tl284jtcy66w6dw0000gn/T/hf-vpn-renamed-w027if --output /tmp/hf-vpn-renamed-proof.mp4 --fps 30 --quality draft --workers 1 --no-browser-gpu` completed successfully.
- `ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration,size -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 /tmp/hf-vpn-renamed-proof.mp4` reported `duration=7.000000`.
### Render verification
- Ran a real 1920x1080, 5-second render with `--gpu --workers 6 --quality draft --fps 24`.
- Verified the command printed `Render complete` and the parent process exited with code `0` in the wrapper: `RENDER_EXIT_PROOF code=0 signal=null sawComplete=true`.
## Notes
- I could not reproduce the exact indefinite #616 render hang on this checkout; both tiny and GPU/6-worker local renders exited cleanly before and after the patch. The CLI guard still addresses the reported leaked-handle failure mode because it fires only after successful render completion.
- Browser proof artifacts were local-only: `/tmp/hf-player-loop-proof-final.png`, `/tmp/hf-player-loop-proof-final.webm`, `/tmp/hf-vpn-code-rename-proof.png`, `/tmp/hf-vpn-code-rename-proof.webm`, `/tmp/hf-vpn-doc-route-rename-proof.png`, and `/tmp/hf-vpn-doc-route-rename-proof.webm`.
- The renamed composition render artifact was local-only: `/tmp/hf-vpn-renamed-proof.mp4`.
- The CLI exit guard is only enabled by the `render` command's top-level local/Docker calls. Direct test/internal calls to `renderLocal()` do not force process exit unless they pass `exitAfterComplete: true`.
Follow-up on the PR #603 review. The previous fix named both attributes
but didn't make their distinct shapes / roles obvious; a reader could
still wonder "are these two views of the same data?". Now the doc
opens with the shape contrast (array of declarations vs object of
values) and the section closes with a numbered precedence layering so
the merge order is unambiguous.
- compositions.md: replaced the bullet list with a shape-first
description ("JSON array of declarations" vs "JSON object keyed by
variable id"), an explicit "they aren't redundant" line, and a
numbered list of the three precedence layers (declared default →
host data-variable-values → CLI --variables).
- skills/hyperframes-cli/SKILL.md: highlighted the same shape contrast
inside the parametrized-renders paragraph (declarations array vs
values object).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
James pointed out (compositions.md:33, SKILL.md:121) that the prose
referenced `data-variable-values` while the example below showed
`data-composition-variables`, leaving readers to wonder if the two
names referred to the same thing. They don't: one declares, the other
overrides per-instance. Both are now named at first mention and the
declare-vs-override split is called out explicitly.
- packages/cli/src/docs/compositions.md: replaced the single intro
sentence with a two-bullet list ("data-composition-variables
declares, data-variable-values overrides per-instance") and a
follow-up explaining where the CLI fits in.
- skills/hyperframes-cli/SKILL.md: rewrote the parametrized-renders
paragraph so declaration (data-composition-variables) and override
(--variables) are distinct sentences, with the per-instance attribute
parenthetical for completeness.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Distribution PR for the variables feature stack: tells agents how to
declare, read, and override variables across the four authoring
surfaces.
skills/hyperframes/SKILL.md:
- Added data-variable-values + data-composition-variables to the
data-attributes tables (host element + <html> root respectively).
- New "Variables (Parametrized Compositions)" section right after
"Composition Structure". Three-step pattern (declare / read /
override), full worked example with enum variable, sub-comp
per-instance pattern with two hosts sharing a source, and rules
of thumb (always provide defaults; read once, not in frame loops;
use --strict-variables in CI; type validation behavior).
skills/hyperframes-cli/SKILL.md:
- Added --variables, --variables-file, --strict-variables to the
render flag table.
- Short paragraph below the table explaining the parametrized-render
pattern with a forward reference to the hyperframes skill.
docs/packages/core.mdx:
- Added a code snippet showing getVariables<T>() inside a composition
and validateVariables/formatVariableValidationIssue for tooling.
packages/cli/src/docs/compositions.md (the in-CLI `npx hyperframes
docs compositions` content):
- Replaced the hand-rolled JSON.parse(host.dataset.variableValues)
pattern with the modern getVariables() pattern.
This is PR 4 of the 4-PR stack. The openai/plugins mirror is a
separate follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two lint rules + render-time validation built on top of the existing
data-composition-variables schema.
Lint rules (packages/core/src/lint/rules/composition.ts):
- invalid_variable_values_json — host's data-variable-values must parse as
a JSON object. Today the runtime swallows parse failures silently and
falls back to declared defaults, masking typos.
- invalid_composition_variables_declaration — root <html>'s
data-composition-variables must parse as an array of objects with
`id` (string), `type` (one of string/number/color/boolean/enum), `label`
(string), and `default`. Per-entry findings report which fields are
missing or invalid.
Both rules read attributes via a new `readJsonAttr` helper in lint/utils.ts.
The existing `readAttr` regex `["']([^"']+)["']` truncates JSON-in-attribute
values at the first internal quote (e.g. `data-variable-values='{"x":"y"}'`
captures only `{`); `readJsonAttr` alternates double-vs-single-quoted
branches with quote-specific char classes so JSON values round-trip cleanly.
A second helper `findHtmlTag` returns the actual <html> open tag (where
data-composition-variables lives) — distinct from `findRootTag` which
returns the first in-body composition element.
Render-time validation (packages/core/src/runtime/validateVariables.ts):
- validateVariables(values, declarations) returns a structured array of
issues: undeclared keys, type mismatches, enum-out-of-range values.
Pure / sync; works in any environment.
- formatVariableValidationIssue(issue) renders a one-line user-facing
string for CLI output.
- Both exported from @hyperframes/core for studio/tooling reuse.
CLI integration (packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts):
- New --strict-variables flag. Default behavior: print warnings and
continue. With --strict-variables: print warnings then exit 1.
- New `validateVariablesAgainstProject(indexPath, values)` helper:
reads the project's index.html, runs extractCompositionMetadata to
pull the declared schema, validates the CLI's --variables payload
against it. ensureDOMParser polyfill for Node-side parsing (same
pattern as compositions.ts).
Tests:
- 11 new validateVariables unit tests covering happy path, undeclared
keys, type mismatches (string/number/boolean/color/enum), enum range,
multiple-issue aggregation, and formatter output.
- 11 new composition.test.ts cases for both lint rules: parse errors,
shape errors, per-entry validation, unknown types, missing fields,
positive cases.
- 5 new render.test.ts cases for validateVariablesAgainstProject:
no-declarations, happy path, undeclared, type-mismatch, missing-file.
- All 646 core tests + 213 cli tests still green.
Docs:
- docs/packages/cli.mdx — added --strict-variables flag row.
This is PR 3 of a 4-PR stack. PR 4 ships skill/scaffold distribution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## What
Adds the parametrized-render primitive from [hf#592](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/issues/592) by introducing a `getVariables()` runtime helper plus a CLI `--variables` / `--variables-file` flag. Compositions declare variables once on the root `<html>` element (the existing `data-composition-variables` attribute, which already drives Studio editing UI), read them at runtime via `window.__hyperframes.getVariables()`, and CLI users override them at render time without touching the composition source.
This is **PR 1 of a 4-PR stack**:
1. **PR 1 (this one)** — runtime helper + CLI flag + engine injection (top-level renders).
2. PR 2 — sub-comp per-instance scoping (carry the host's `data-variable-values` into the inlined sub-comp's `getVariables()`).
3. PR 3 — schema validation + lint rules (warn on undeclared variable IDs, optional `--strict-variables`).
4. PR 4 — skill / scaffold distribution (SKILL.md, AGENTS.md scaffolds, openai/plugins mirror).
## Why
The existing `data-composition-variables` schema declares variable types and defaults but isn't readable from composition scripts and can't be overridden at render time. To produce N variations of a composition today, an agent has to fork the composition or edit the source HTML before each render. `--variables` collapses that into one render call per variation, matching Editframe's `--data` UX without copying their `getRenderData` framing — `getVariables()` is named for the codebase's existing "variables" terminology and works equally in dev preview and at render time.
## How
- **Runtime helper** (`packages/core/src/runtime/getVariables.ts`): reads `data-composition-variables` from `document.documentElement`, extracts `{id: default}` defaults, merges `window.__hfVariables` (override) on top, returns `Partial<T>`. Same code path in dev preview (no override) and at render (with override). Generic parameter for typed editor ergonomics. Exposed both as a named export from `@hyperframes/core` and on `window.__hyperframes.getVariables` for vanilla compositions.
- **CLI flag** (`packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts`): `--variables '<json>'` and `--variables-file <path>`. `parseVariablesArg` is split out as a pure function (returns a discriminated `{ ok: true } | { ok: false }` union) so all validation paths are unit-testable; the side-effecting `resolveVariablesArg` wraps it with `errorBox` + `process.exit`. Mutually exclusive with `--variables-file`; fail-fast on conflicts, missing file, unparseable JSON, or non-object payloads (string, number, array, null).
- **Engine injection** (`packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts`): added an `evaluateOnNewDocument` step right after the `__name` polyfill that sets `window.__hfVariables` to the parsed JSON before any page script runs. Skipped when payload is empty so we don't add pointless init scripts. Plumbed through `CaptureOptions.variables` and `RenderConfig.variables`. Docker mode forwards the flag to the in-container CLI via `dockerRunArgs`.
- **Why a separate `__hfVariables` global** instead of writing into `__hyperframes.getVariables()` directly: the helper is an IIFE that has to be defined before composition scripts execute, but the *override* needs to land before *that*. `evaluateOnNewDocument` is the only reliable hook that runs before the runtime IIFE evaluates. Storing the raw value on `__hfVariables` and merging in the helper keeps both paths order-independent.
## Test plan
- [x] Unit tests added/updated
- 9 jsdom tests for `getVariables()` covering empty state, declared defaults only, override merge, override-wins, declared-only, invalid JSON, non-array payloads, non-object overrides, typed generic.
- 7 tests for `parseVariablesArg` covering all validation paths.
- 2 integration tests for `renderLocal` confirming `variables` reach `createRenderJob`.
- 3 new `dockerRunArgs` assertions for `--variables` passthrough (set / not-set / empty-object).
- All existing tests green: core 611, cli 208, engine 519.
- [x] Manual testing performed
- `npx tsx packages/cli/src/cli.ts render --help` shows both flags + the two new examples.
- [x] Documentation updated
- `docs/packages/cli.mdx` — added flags to the table and a "Parametrized renders" section with a worked example.
- `docs/concepts/data-attributes.mdx` — added `data-composition-variables` row.
## Backwards compatibility
Fully backwards compatible. Compositions without `data-composition-variables` work unchanged; `getVariables()` returns `{}` and the engine skips the injection step.
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## Summary
Studio manual geometry edits now persist as a project-local manifest instead of being baked into composition source on each gesture.
The manifest lives at:
```text
.hyperframes/studio-manual-edits.json
```
It is the source of truth for manual drag, resize, rotation, inspector geometry edits, group moves, and selected-layer reset.
## Architecture
- **Manifest-backed edits**: each edit stores a kind (`path-offset`, `box-size`, `rotation`), a source-scoped target, and the edit values.
- **Source-scoped resolution**: targets include `sourceFile`, `id`, `selector`, and `selectorIndex`, so duplicate selectors in nested compositions resolve against the owning source file.
- **Additive CSS layer**: move uses CSS `translate`, resize writes stable dimensions/flex sizing, and rotation uses CSS `rotate` over the authored base.
- **Shared replay runtime**: Studio preview, thumbnails, frame capture, producer renders, and CLI Studio renders/thumbnails all use the same core manual-edit render script.
- **Animation-safe replay**: Studio reapplies the manual layer after load, refresh, timeline seeks, player operations, playback frames, thumbnail seeks, and render seeks instead of rewriting GSAP timelines.
- **History and handoff**: the manifest is a normal project file, so undo/redo and agent edits can preserve, modify, or remove manual visual edits explicitly.
## User Impact
Users can move, resize, rotate, group-move, and reset supported layers from the canvas or inspector, then refresh, capture thumbnails/screenshots, play animated compositions, and render videos without manual edits drifting away from the edited state.
## Main Files
- `packages/studio/src/components/editor/manualEdits.ts`
- `packages/studio/src/components/editor/DomEditOverlay.tsx`
- `packages/studio/src/components/editor/PropertyPanel.tsx`
- `packages/studio/src/App.tsx`
- `packages/core/src/studio-api/helpers/manualEditsRenderScript.ts`
- `packages/studio/vite.config.ts`
- `packages/cli/src/server/studioServer.ts`
- `packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.ts`
- `packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts`
- `packages/core/src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.ts`
- `packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.ts`
- `packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts`
## Test Plan
```bash
volta run --node 22.20.0 bun run build
volta run --node 22.20.0 bun run --filter @hyperframes/core test -- src/studio-api/helpers/manualEditsRenderScript.test.ts
volta run --node 22.20.0 bun run --filter @hyperframes/core typecheck
volta run --node 22.20.0 bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio typecheck
volta run --node 22.20.0 bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck
volta run --node 22.20.0 bunx oxlint <changed files>
volta run --node 22.20.0 bunx oxfmt --check <changed files>
git diff --check
```
Address Miguel's review on #612.
- Normalization std was (1, 1, 1) — that's the base u2net session, not
u2net_human_seg. Switch to ImageNet (0.229, 0.224, 0.225) to match
rembg's U2netHumanSegSession reference. Add a parity test pinning the
exact MEAN/STD values.
- waitForExit treated `code === null` as success, but per Node child_process
docs that's the signal-killed case — a SIGTERM'd ffmpeg encoder was
reporting success with a partial output. Switch to (code, signal) and
reject with the signal in the error message. Add four signal-handling
tests (clean exit, signal-killed, non-zero code, SIGKILL).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `hyperframes remove-background` — a local-AI subcommand that mattes a
video or image with the u2net_human_seg ONNX model and emits a transparent
WebM (VP9-alpha), ProRes 4444 .mov, or RGBA PNG. Drops directly into any
composition's <video> tag — no green screen, no API keys, no upload.
Auto-picks the fastest available execution provider via onnxruntime-node:
CoreML on Apple Silicon, CUDA when HYPERFRAMES_CUDA=1, CPU otherwise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- core/runtime/getVariables.ts: collapse the noisy three-step type-guard
re-cast into a single `Record<string, unknown>` narrow with early-continue
guards. Same behaviour, ~6 lines shorter.
- cli/commands/render.ts: separate VariablesParseError from UI strings.
parseVariablesArg now returns a kind-discriminated error
(`conflict | read-error | parse-error | shape-error`) and the wrapper
resolveVariablesArg owns the title/message mapping via
`variablesErrorMessage`. Keeps the parser pure of presentation strings.
- cli/commands/render.test.ts: lift the `await import("./render.js")` into
a `beforeAll`, add a typed `expectErr` helper, assert on the structured
error kind instead of message-string regexes. Same coverage, less noise.
- engine/services/frameCapture.ts: replace the `as unknown as { ... }`
double-cast with a single named `WindowWithVariables` alias inside the
page closure.
All affected suites green (core getVariables 9, cli render 12, cli
dockerRunArgs 13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the parametrized-render primitive from hf#592 by reusing the existing
data-composition-variables schema as the source of declared defaults.
- Runtime helper window.__hyperframes.getVariables() (also exported from
@hyperframes/core) reads data-composition-variables defaults from the
document root and merges window.__hfVariables (CLI override) on top.
Returns Partial<T> for typed access; supports a generic for editor
ergonomics. Same code path runs in dev preview and at render time.
- CLI render --variables '<json>' / --variables-file <path> populates the
override. Mutually exclusive; fail-fast on conflicting flags, missing
file, unparseable JSON, or non-object payloads. parseVariablesArg is
exported as a pure function so validation paths stay unit-testable.
- Engine injects window.__hfVariables via evaluateOnNewDocument before
any page script runs, so the helper sees the merged values on its
first call. Empty payloads are skipped to avoid pointless init scripts.
- Producer threads variables through RenderConfig and into the engine's
CaptureOptions; Docker mode forwards --variables to the in-container
CLI invocation via dockerRunArgs.
Composition authors declare variables once on the root <html> element:
<html data-composition-variables='[
{"id":"title","type":"string","label":"Title","default":"Hello"}
]'>
and read them in any composition script:
const { title } = window.__hyperframes.getVariables();
A render with `--variables '{"title":"Q4 Report"}'` overrides the default
without modifying the composition source. Missing keys fall through to
the declared defaults, so dev preview and CLI renders without --variables
behave identically.
This is PR 1 of a 4-PR stack. Sub-comp per-instance scoping (carrying
host data-variable-values through the inlined sub-comp's getVariables()
call) lands in PR 2; schema validation and lint in PR 3; skill / scaffold
distribution in PR 4.
Tests: 9 new unit tests for getVariables() (jsdom), 11 new CLI tests
covering parseVariablesArg validation paths and Docker passthrough,
2 new dockerRunArgs assertions for the --variables flag. All existing
tests green (core 611, cli 208, engine 519).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Problem
I reproduced the selected open issue batch one by one and confirmed the reports were valid. The fixes all touch the CLI/runtime capture boundary, then the follow-up regression run exposed one over-broad runtime change in sub-composition host visibility and one CI-only baseline trap.
Closes#590, #589, #588, #587, #586, and #584.
## What this fixes
### CLI/runtime edge cases
- Makes the GSAP infinite-repeat lint rule ignore JavaScript comments, so literal `repeat:-1` text in comments is not flagged.
- Lets the compositions CLI inspect `<template>` content, count visual-only template descendants, estimate simple GSAP durations, and suppress root `data-start` warnings in sub-composition lint mode.
- Preserves runtime bootstrap scripts when body scripts are coalesced, and injects the runtime into a real `<head>` when source HTML has no head.
- Keeps #589 fixed by loading and rendering template-wrapped sub-composition content, while restoring host visibility to the shorter of the authored parent clip window and the child composition live timeline.
- Resolves snapshot/validate viewport size from root `data-width` / `data-height` instead of falling back to 1920x1080.
- Skips fully off-frame text boxes during contrast sampling and bounds-checks ring samples so contrast output no longer emits `null:1` / `NaN:1`.
- Marks muted videos as `data-has-audio="false"` in the core timing compiler, which fixes the same-src muted `<video>` + separate `<audio>` StaticGuard case.
- Keeps user-authored `hf-seek` listeners reachable during capture by preventing author scripts from being merged into the runtime bootstrap path.
### Shared helper cleanup
- Removes the stale producer-local timing compiler duplicate; producer compilation now consumes the core timing compiler.
- Centralizes HTML document helpers in core: fragment parsing, embedded runtime stripping, head/body script injection, and early-head injection.
- Centralizes the CLI layout/snapshot static HTML server.
- Adds browser-safe core subpath helpers for Lottie readiness and CLI screenshot clip calculation; Studio's Vite config keeps the screenshot clip helper self-contained so clean-checkout test startup does not value-import core `.ts` source.
- Replaces the engine parity-contract copy with a core re-export.
- De-duplicates render-job cleanup and Studio static file-serving callbacks.
### Regression hardening
- Replaces the embedded-runtime script stripping regex with a script-tag scanner that handles closing tags like `</script >`.
- Escapes inline script bodies before wrapping them in `<script>` tags, so authored `</script` and `<!--` text cannot break out of the injected wrapper script.
- Shares media-duration clamping between core and producer, with a 50 ms tolerance for ffprobe precision drift between local and CI media stacks.
- Pins the affected style fixture SFX durations in source so style-1 and style-9 compile deterministically.
- Restores the `vfr-screen-recording` video golden to the CI-stable baseline; the current CI failure showed the Linux render matches the old golden, while the locally refreshed macOS golden was the mismatch.
## Root cause
The CLI paths had accumulated assumptions that held for simple direct-root landscape compositions but not for current composition patterns: DOM queries did not enter template content, snapshot/validate used a fixed viewport, runtime and author scripts shared a coalescing bucket, and timing compilation treated every video as audio-bearing unless authors manually overrode it.
The style shard failures were not product regressions. Local and CI media probing disagreed on the short SFX clip duration by about 45 ms, and the compiler was clamping authored durations to the locally probed value. The shared clamp tolerance preserves explicit author/source durations for small probe precision differences while still clamping real overflows.
The vfr fast-shard failure was a bad baseline refresh: CI actual frames matched the old `vfr-screen-recording` baseline at 40+ dB PSNR, but mismatched the macOS-refreshed golden at ~18-22 dB. The fix is to keep the Docker/Linux-stable video golden and only retain the deterministic compiled snapshot change.
The sub-composition regression came from treating a host's authored parent window as the only visibility boundary. That made settled child overlays stay visible after their own live GSAP timeline ended. The corrected runtime behavior respects both contracts: parent clips still bound where the host can appear, and the child live timeline can end the host earlier.
## Verification
### Local checks
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/core/src/runtime/init.ts packages/core/src/runtime/init.test.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/core/src/runtime/init.ts packages/core/src/runtime/init.test.ts`
- `bun run --cwd packages/core test src/runtime/init.test.ts`
- `bun run --cwd packages/cli test src/commands/compositions.test.ts src/utils/compositionViewport.test.ts`
- `bun run build:hyperframes-runtime`
- `bun run --cwd packages/producer test --keep-temp --sequential style-12-prod style-5-prod`
- `bun run --cwd packages/producer test --sequential vfr-screen-recording hdr-hlg-regression style-7-prod`
- `bun run --cwd packages/core test src/compiler/htmlCompiler.test.ts src/compiler/timingCompiler.test.ts src/index.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/core/src/compiler/timingCompiler.ts packages/core/src/compiler/htmlCompiler.ts packages/core/src/compiler/htmlCompiler.test.ts packages/core/src/compiler/index.ts packages/core/src/index.ts packages/core/src/index.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/core/src/compiler/timingCompiler.ts packages/core/src/compiler/htmlCompiler.ts packages/core/src/compiler/htmlCompiler.test.ts packages/core/src/compiler/index.ts packages/core/src/index.ts packages/core/src/index.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts`
- `bun run --cwd packages/core typecheck`
- `bun run --cwd packages/producer typecheck`
- `bun run --cwd packages/producer test --sequential style-1-prod style-9-prod`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio test` with `packages/core/dist` temporarily hidden to simulate clean-checkout config loading
- `git diff --check`
### CI artifact checks
- Inspected failed run `25225854394` job `73969147096`: style-1 failed only on `click-sfx` `1.044898` vs `1` duration/end.
- Inspected failed run `25225854394` job `73969147061`: style-9 failed only on SFX `1.044898`-based duration/end mismatches.
- Inspected failed run `25225854394` job `73969147048`: `vfr-screen-recording` compilation/audio passed, visual failed after comparing against the macOS-refreshed golden.
- Compared the first 10 uploaded CI vfr failure frames against the restored old baseline; minimum PSNR was `40.444705`, above the fixture threshold of `28`.
### Repro checks
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts lint /tmp/hf-590-repro` now passes without `gsap_infinite_repeat`.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts snapshot /tmp/hf-587-repro --at 0.5 --timeout 1000` now writes a 1080x1920 PNG.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts validate /tmp/hf-588-repro --timeout 500` no longer emits `null:1` / `NaN:1` contrast output.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts validate /tmp/hf-586-repro --timeout 500 --contrast false` no longer emits the muted-video StaticGuard contract error.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts compositions /tmp/hf-589-gsap-repro` now reports `foo 0.5s 1920x1080 1 element`.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts snapshot /tmp/hf-589-gsap-repro --at 0.25 --timeout 2000` captures the expected template-backed red frame.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts snapshot /tmp/hf-584-repro --at 0.5,1.5 --timeout 500` captures the expected post-seek green frame.
### Browser verification
- Refreshed the local side-by-side comparison page at `qa-artifacts/pr-591-video-compare/index.html`.
- Served the comparison page locally and used `agent-browser` to load `style-12-prod`, play both videos quickly to the failed window, pause, and inspect the side-by-side frame.
- Browser proof screenshot: `qa-artifacts/pr-591-video-compare/browser-proof/fixed-style12-labeled.png`.
- Browser proof recording: `qa-artifacts/pr-591-video-compare/browser-proof/fixed-style12.webm`.
- Earlier Studio proof artifacts remain local-only: `qa-artifacts/dedupe-refactor-preview.png`, `qa-artifacts/dedupe-refactor-preview-after-play.png`, `qa-artifacts/dedupe-refactor-preview.webm`.
## Notes
- Browser proof and CI diagnostic artifacts are intentionally local-only and not committed.
- Studio's Vite config intentionally keeps the thumbnail clip helper inline because Vite/Vitest config startup runs through Node's loader before package source `.ts` imports are transformed.
- The committed PR diff changes `vfr-screen-recording/output/compiled.html` but no longer changes `vfr-screen-recording/output/output.mp4` relative to `main`.
- I attempted a local `linux/amd64` Docker validation to mirror CI, but the local Docker build was blocked by Debian package download failures. The arm64 Docker image also cannot launch the x64 Puppeteer headless shell under OrbStack. The vfr baseline decision is therefore based on the uploaded CI artifact comparison above.
- I kept this validated issue batch in one PR because the fixes overlap the same CLI/runtime capture surfaces.
## Problem
Users who want Tailwind utilities in a plain HyperFrames composition currently have to know which Tailwind browser script to add and where to place it. The first pass added `--tailwind`, but review caught three production-facing gaps: the CDN version was major-only, the insertion helper could silently no-op on compact HTML, and the render pipeline did not explicitly wait for Tailwind's async browser compilation before capturing frame 0.
There is also a version-specific agent risk: HyperFrames `init --tailwind` uses Tailwind v4.2 through `@tailwindcss/browser@4.2.4`, while `packages/studio` still uses Tailwind v3. Without a dedicated skill, agents can easily mix v3 `tailwind.config.js` / `@tailwind` patterns into v4 browser-runtime composition HTML.
## What this fixes
- Adds `hyperframes init --tailwind`.
- Pins the Tailwind browser runtime to `@tailwindcss/browser@4.2.4/dist/index.global.js` with SRI and `crossorigin="anonymous"`.
- Injects a `window.__tailwindReady` promise next to the browser runtime.
- Makes frame capture wait for `window.__tailwindReady` in both screenshot and BeginFrame capture modes before capturing frame 0.
- Inserts Tailwind support before `</head>` case-insensitively, including single-line/minified heads, and falls back to prepending when there is no head tag.
- Skips recursive Tailwind injection under `.git`, `dist`, and `node_modules`.
- Tracks whether init used Tailwind in the existing `init_template` telemetry event.
- Adds a first-party `/tailwind` skill for Tailwind v4.2 browser-runtime HyperFrames composition work.
- Updates README, docs, generated project agent files, CLI skill guidance, and plugin metadata so the Tailwind skill is discoverable.
- Documents the browser-runtime tradeoff and production/offline guidance.
## Root cause
`scaffoldProject()` copied the selected example and patched media placeholders, then immediately wrote project metadata and `package.json`. There was no optional post-copy step for framework-specific HTML support. The initial Tailwind post-copy step also treated the browser runtime like a static script, but Tailwind compiles utilities asynchronously after scanning the DOM, so the capture engine needed an explicit readiness contract.
On the agent side, the repo exposed HyperFrames, CLI, GSAP, registry, and runtime adapter skills, but had no Tailwind-specific instruction to separate the v4 browser-runtime composition path from Studio's v3 internal setup.
## Verification
### Local checks
- `bunx vitest run packages/cli/src/commands/init.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/commands/init.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- `bun run lint:skills`
- `bun run lint`
- `npx skills add . --list` showed 12 local skills, including `tailwind`.
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts packages/cli/src/commands/init.test.ts packages/cli/src/telemetry/events.ts packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts docs/packages/cli.mdx`
- `bunx oxfmt --check README.md docs/quickstart.mdx docs/packages/cli.mdx CLAUDE.md packages/cli/src/templates/_shared/CLAUDE.md packages/cli/src/templates/_shared/AGENTS.md skills/hyperframes-cli/SKILL.md skills/tailwind/SKILL.md .codex-plugin/plugin.json .cursor-plugin/plugin.json`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts packages/cli/src/commands/init.test.ts packages/cli/src/telemetry/events.ts packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts`
- `git diff --check`
- Lefthook pre-commit: lint/format/typecheck for code commit; format for docs/skill commit
- Lefthook commit-msg: commitlint
Generated-project render proof at `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof`:
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts init /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof --example blank --tailwind --non-interactive --skip-skills`
- Added a temporary Tailwind-only card using `flex`, `h-full`, `w-full`, `items-center`, `justify-center`, `bg-slate-950`, `rounded-3xl`, `bg-white`, `px-20`, `py-12`, `text-8xl`, `font-black`, `text-black`, and `shadow-2xl`.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts lint /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof` → 0 errors, 0 warnings.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts validate /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof` → 0 errors, 0 regular warnings; the temp proof still reports validator contrast warnings even though the rendered/browser pixels show black text on white background.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof --workers 1 --fps 24 --quality draft --output /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/output.mp4`
- Render compiler inlined both GSAP and `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4.2.4/dist/index.global.js`.
- `ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name,width,height,r_frame_rate,duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 /tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/output.mp4` → H.264, 1920x1080, 24fps, 10s.
- Extracted frame-0 proof: `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/frame-000.png`.
### Browser verification
- Started Studio preview for `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof`.
- Used `agent-browser` to open `http://localhost:5194`.
- Verified the Tailwind-styled composition rendered in Studio preview.
- Captured screenshot: `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/browser/tailwind-preview.png`.
- Captured agent-browser-driven recording: `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/browser/tailwind-preview.webm`.
- Served the PR worktree locally and used `agent-browser` to open the new Tailwind skill proof page.
- Verified the browser-visible skill content includes `@tailwindcss/browser@4.2.4`.
- Captured screenshot: `/Users/miguel07code/.codex/worktrees/pr-577-tailwind-comments/tmp/agent-browser-proof/tailwind-skill.png`.
- Captured agent-browser-driven recording: `/Users/miguel07code/.codex/worktrees/pr-577-tailwind-comments/tmp/agent-browser-proof/tailwind-skill.webm`.
## Notes
- This still intentionally uses Tailwind's browser runtime rather than adding a generated Tailwind build pipeline. That keeps `hyperframes init --tailwind` small and compatible with the current no-install generated project workflow.
- The `/tailwind` skill cites official Tailwind v4 docs plus community skill references, but its instructions are HyperFrames-specific and tuned for the pinned v4.2 browser runtime.
- Browser proof artifacts are local-only under `/tmp/hf-tailwind-render-proof-artifacts/` and `tmp/agent-browser-proof/` and intentionally not committed.
## Problem
New HyperFrames projects should feel like normal JavaScript projects immediately after `hyperframes init`: users should have a canonical `npm run dev`, `npm run check`, `npm run render`, and `npm run publish` loop without needing to memorize raw CLI commands.
At the same time, the scaffold should stay opinionated. Adding many aliases would make the project surface harder to explain and maintain.
## What this fixes
- Writes a default `package.json` during `hyperframes init` when the selected example does not already provide one.
- Adds four project scripts only:
- `dev` -> preview in Studio
- `check` -> lint, validate, and inspect in sequence
- `render` -> render the video
- `publish` -> publish the project
- Pins generated scripts to the CLI version that created the project in packaged builds, while keeping source-checkout tests on the unpinned dev fallback.
- Uses `npx --yes` inside scripts so first-run commands do not stop on an install confirmation prompt.
- Updates generated `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` guidance to present the same four-command workflow.
- Updates the non-interactive init success message to include `npm run dev`, `npm run check`, and `npm run render`.
## Root cause
`scaffoldProject()` copied the example, wrote `meta.json` and `hyperframes.json`, then copied agent guidance files. It never created a package manifest, so generated projects had no project-local command contract even though the workflow has stable repeated commands.
This revision keeps the scaffold narrow: `package.json` is the project workflow contract, but direct CLI usage remains available for advanced or one-off commands.
## Verification
### Local checks
- TDD red check from the first pass: `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/commands/init.test.ts` failed after updating the expected generated UX because `npm run check` was not emitted yet.
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/commands/init.test.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts packages/cli/src/commands/init.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts packages/cli/src/commands/init.test.ts packages/cli/src/templates/_shared/AGENTS.md packages/cli/src/templates/_shared/CLAUDE.md`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli build`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio build`
- `git diff --check`
- `node packages/cli/dist/cli.js --version`
Generated-project smoke at `/tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated`:
- `node packages/cli/dist/cli.js init /tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated --example blank --non-interactive --skip-skills`
- inspected generated `package.json` and confirmed exactly `dev`, `check`, `render`, and `publish`
- confirmed packaged scripts use `npx --yes hyperframes@0.4.39 ...`
- `npm run check`
- `npm run render -- --quality draft --workers 1 --fps 24 --output /tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated.mp4`
- `ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height,avg_frame_rate,duration -show_entries format=duration,size -of json /tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated.mp4`
- `npm run publish -- --help`
### Browser verification
- Started the generated project through the new script: `npm run dev -- --port 5199`.
- Used `agent-browser` to open `http://localhost:5199/#project/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated`.
- Verified the Studio project loaded with the expected project name, controls, timeline, and composition player frame.
- Captured screenshot: `/tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated-browser.png`.
- Captured agent-browser-driven recording: `/tmp/hf-init-package-scripts-opinionated-browser.webm`.
- Verified recording metadata with `ffprobe`: 14.4s, 61 KB.
## Notes
- The generated source-checkout test still expects unpinned `npx --yes hyperframes ...` because source mode reports `0.0.0-dev`; the packaged CLI smoke covers the real-user pinned path.
- `npm run publish` was verified with `--help` only to avoid creating a real publish side effect during PR validation.
## Problem
HyperFrames already had `--gpu`, but that flag only controlled FFmpeg hardware encoding. The browser capture path still forced Chrome/WebGL through SwiftShader software GL via `--use-angle=swiftshader`, so WebGL-heavy local renders could leave the biggest bottleneck on the CPU path.
That made the existing flag naming easy to misread: `--gpu` sounded like it accelerated the whole render, but it did not change the browser frame-capture backend.
## What this fixes
- Enables host browser GPU acceleration automatically for local CLI renders.
- Adds `--no-browser-gpu` as the local opt-out for software Chrome/WebGL capture.
- Keeps `--browser-gpu` as an explicit local browser-GPU request.
- Adds `browserGpuMode: "software" | "hardware"` to engine config, with `PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE` env support for lower-level producer users.
- Keeps Docker browser capture on the deterministic software path.
- Maps hardware browser GPU mode to platform-native Chrome backends:
- macOS: Metal-backed ANGLE
- Windows: D3D11-backed ANGLE
- Linux: EGL
- Blocks explicit `--browser-gpu --docker` with a clear error because Docker browser GPU passthrough is not cross-platform.
- Clarifies docs so `--gpu` means FFmpeg encoder GPU and browser GPU means Chrome/WebGL capture GPU.
- Keeps encoder backend selection auto-detected from FFmpeg capabilities:
- NVIDIA: NVENC
- macOS: VideoToolbox
- Linux: VAAPI
- Intel: QSV
## Why two flags
There are two separate GPU surfaces in the render pipeline:
1. Browser GPU controls Chrome frame capture.
- Affects WebGL, canvas, CSS rendering, compositing, and screenshot capture inside the browser.
- This is enabled automatically for local CLI renders.
- Use `--no-browser-gpu` when you want the software browser baseline.
2. `--gpu` controls FFmpeg video encoding.
- Affects the final encode step after frames have already been captured.
- The concrete encoder is auto-detected from the host FFmpeg build and hardware.
- It can be faster for some machines/codecs, but it is not equivalent to browser rendering acceleration.
The controls stay independent because users may want:
- `hyperframes render` for the fast local default with browser GPU capture.
- `hyperframes render --no-browser-gpu` for the software-browser local baseline.
- `hyperframes render --gpu` for browser GPU capture plus hardware FFmpeg encoding.
- `hyperframes render --no-browser-gpu --gpu` for software browser capture plus hardware FFmpeg encoding.
- `hyperframes render --docker` for deterministic browser capture.
## Why `--gpu` does not imply browser GPU
Keeping `--gpu` scoped to FFmpeg encoding avoids a semantic break and keeps the risk profile explicit:
- `--gpu` already means encoder acceleration. Expanding it to also change Chrome capture would silently alter behavior for users who only wanted hardware encoding.
- Browser GPU and encoder GPU have different portability. Encoder GPU can work in Docker when the host exposes the right devices; browser GPU passthrough is not cross-platform, so this PR intentionally blocks explicit `--browser-gpu --docker`.
- The Apple presentation benchmark shows why the controls should stay separate: browser GPU capture was the useful improvement, while macOS VideoToolbox via `--gpu` was slower and produced larger output for this `standard` H.264 run.
If HyperFrames later wants a single umbrella acceleration control, it should be explicit, for example `--acceleration browser|encoder|all` or `--gpu=browser|encoder|all`, rather than changing the meaning of the existing boolean `--gpu`.
## Root cause
`buildChromeArgs()` always injected `--use-gl=angle --use-angle=swiftshader`. `disableGpu` only appended `--disable-gpu`; it did not provide a hardware-GPU mode. That made the public `--gpu` flag look broader than it was, because render capture stayed software-backed even when encoder GPU was requested.
## Verification
### Local checks
- `bun install`
- `bun run build:hyperframes-runtime`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test src/config.test.ts src/services/browserManager.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/utils/dockerRunArgs.test.ts src/commands/render.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- `cd packages/producer && bunx vitest run src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.test.ts packages/cli/src/utils/dockerRunArgs.ts packages/cli/src/utils/dockerRunArgs.test.ts packages/engine/src/config.ts packages/engine/src/config.test.ts packages/engine/src/services/browserManager.ts packages/engine/src/services/browserManager.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check ...` on changed source/docs files
- `git diff --check`
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render --help | rg -n "browser-gpu|no-browser-gpu|GPU"`
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --output /tmp/hf-auto-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 --workers 1 --quality draft --fps 24 --strict`
- Render plan prints `GPU: browser GPU (auto)`.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --no-browser-gpu --output /tmp/hf-software-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 --workers 1 --quality draft --fps 24 --strict`
- Render plan does not print browser GPU.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --docker --browser-gpu --output /tmp/should-not-render.mp4`
- Exits 1 with `Browser GPU is local-only`.
- `buildDockerRunArgs()` regression coverage asserts Docker container args include `--no-browser-gpu`, preventing nested container renders from re-enabling browser GPU through the local CLI default.
- `resolveBrowserGpuForCli()` regression coverage asserts `PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE=software` opts out when no CLI browser-GPU flag is supplied, while explicit `--browser-gpu` / `--no-browser-gpu` still win.
- `ffmpeg -v error -i /tmp/hf-auto-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 -f null -`
- `ffmpeg -v error -i /tmp/hf-software-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 -f null -`
- `ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration:stream=codec_name,width,height,r_frame_rate -of json /tmp/hf-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4` -> H.264, 1920x1080, 24fps, 5.0s
### Apple presentation benchmark
Rendered `/Users/miguel07code/Downloads/apple-presentation.zip` as supplied after extracting to `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/apple-presentation`.
Fixed settings:
- 1920x1080
- 30fps
- `standard` quality
- 4240 frames
- 141.32s duration
- 8-worker cap; render auto-calibration used 6 capture workers
- macOS host detected FFmpeg GPU encoder: `videotoolbox`
| Mode | Equivalent flags after this PR | Wall time | vs software-browser baseline | Speed | Capture | Encode | Output |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Software browser + CPU encode | `--no-browser-gpu` | 120.77s | baseline | 1.17x | 97.87s | 10.04s | 8.38MB |
| Browser GPU + CPU encode | default local render | 70.10s | 42.0% faster | 2.02x | 50.72s | 9.91s | 8.39MB |
| Software browser + encoder GPU | `--no-browser-gpu --gpu` | 133.16s | 10.3% slower | 1.06x | 103.58s | 18.31s | 25.43MB |
| Browser GPU + encoder GPU | `--gpu` | 74.12s | 38.6% faster | 1.91x | 46.69s | 17.93s | 25.45MB |
Result: browser GPU capture is the meaningful improvement for this WebGL/browser-capture-heavy presentation. VideoToolbox encoding was slower and produced larger files for this current `standard` H.264 path, so `--gpu` should stay separate and opt-in.
Why `--gpu` plus browser GPU was slower than browser GPU alone: the combined run captured about 4.0s faster than browser GPU alone, but VideoToolbox encoding was about 8.0s slower than CPU x264 encoding, so the encode loss outweighed the capture gain.
### VideoToolbox flag check
I also isolated the encode stage against the already-captured Apple frames to check whether macOS GPU encoding only needed special flags.
`ffmpeg -h encoder=h264_videotoolbox` does not expose a CRF/CQ-style quality option like x264. It exposes bitrate-oriented and VideoToolbox-specific options such as `-b:v`, `-realtime`, `-profile`, `-coder`, `-prio_speed`, `-power_efficient`, and `-allow_sw`. That means our current `-q:v` mapping is not equivalent to x264 CRF and can produce very different bitrate/size behavior.
Measured full-frame encode variants on this host:
| VideoToolbox variant | Encode wall time | Output size | Bitrate |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Current `-q:v 64 -allow_sw 1` | 18.76s | 25.31MB | 1.43 Mbps |
| Current without `-allow_sw 1` | 18.21s | 25.31MB | 1.43 Mbps |
| `-b:v 500k -maxrate 750k -bufsize 1000k -profile high -coder cabac -realtime 1 -prio_speed 1 -power_efficient 0` | 20.58s | 7.42MB | 0.42 Mbps |
| Same with `-b:v 1500k` | 20.84s | 16.70MB | 0.95 Mbps |
| `-b:v 500k -profile baseline -coder cavlc -realtime 1 -prio_speed 1 -power_efficient 0` | 18.11s | 8.94MB | 0.51 Mbps |
Conclusion: VideoToolbox can be made size/bitrate-predictable with explicit `--video-bitrate`, but the tested speed-oriented flags did not make it faster than CPU x264 wall time for this render. That reinforces keeping `--gpu` encoder acceleration explicit and separate from browser GPU capture.
Artifacts from the local benchmark:
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/cpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/browser-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/encoder-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/full-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/summary.json`
All four benchmark MP4s completed `ffprobe` and full `ffmpeg -f null` decode checks.
### Pixel comparison
Compared decoded MP4 output between software-browser and browser-GPU renders:
- Apple presentation:
- 4240 frames compared
- 636 exact matching decoded frame hashes
- 3604 different decoded frame hashes
- Average PSNR: 57.79 dB
- `css-spinner-render-compat` clean fixture:
- 120 frames compared
- 0 exact matching decoded frame hashes
- Average PSNR: 61.57 dB
Interpretation: browser GPU output is not strict hash/pixel-identical to the software-browser path after lossy H.264 encode, but the measured deltas are visually tiny. Above 50 dB PSNR is typically visually indistinguishable for normal video review. Use `--no-browser-gpu` or Docker when strict cross-run/cross-machine reproducibility matters more than local speed.
### Browser verification
- Started HyperFrames Studio preview for `packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src`.
- Used `agent-browser` to open `http://localhost:5191#project/src` and verify the composition loaded in Studio.
- Screenshots:
- `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-loaded.png`
- `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-playing.png`
- `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-frame-60.png`
- Agent-browser recordings:
- `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-playback.webm`
- `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-seek.webm`
## Notes
- Browser GPU is enabled automatically for local CLI renders and disabled in Docker.
- `--no-browser-gpu` is the opt-out for software Chrome/WebGL capture.
- `--gpu` remains encoder-only and opt-in.
- The Apple presentation zip has existing lint errors around unmanaged nested videos and imperative media `play()` calls. The benchmark still compares the same supplied source across modes, but it should not be treated as a clean deterministic-composition fixture.
## Problem
The Catalog did not include the four prompt-matched Stronkter one-shot HyperFrames projects, and registry metadata only supported a plain author string, so there was no structured way to show creator attribution or the original generation prompt on generated catalog pages.
## What this fixes
- Adds four Catalog blocks matching the provided prompts, in order:
- `north-korea-locked-down`
- `apple-money-count`
- `nyc-paris-flight`
- `goonvpn-youtube-spot`
- Attributes each block to [Stronkter](https://x.com/Stronkter).
- Stores and renders the original source prompt for each generated catalog page.
- Adds a local realistic map plate for the North Korea block so rendering does not depend on live map tile requests.
- Extends registry item metadata/schema with `authorUrl` and `sourcePrompt`.
- Updates catalog page generation to read items from `registry/registry.json`, keeping generated docs aligned to the public registry manifest.
- Ignores normal browser media preload `net::ERR_ABORTED` request failures for media assets during `hyperframes validate`, while preserving failures for real missing assets.
## Root cause
The imported projects are Catalog-ready compositions, but the registry/docs pipeline did not have first-class source-prompt or linked-author fields to expose creator credit on generated MDX pages. The audio-backed compositions also surfaced a validation edge case: Chrome can report aborted media preload requests as `net::ERR_ABORTED` even when the audio file exists and playback is valid.
## Verification
### Local
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/commands/validate.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/core test src/registry/types.test.ts`
- `bun run sync-schemas:check`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/commands/validate.ts packages/cli/src/commands/validate.test.ts packages/core/src/registry/types.ts packages/core/src/registry/types.test.ts scripts/generate-catalog-pages.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check ...` on changed source, registry, docs, and composition files
- `git diff --check`
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts lint` and `validate` against temp installed projects for all four blocks
- Lefthook pre-commit: lint/format/typecheck on the initial commit, plus format on the amend
- Lefthook commit-msg: commitlint
### Browser
- Exercised all four blocks through HyperFrames preview routes with `agent-browser`.
- Captured playback screenshots and WebM recordings for:
- `north-korea-locked-down`
- `apple-money-count`
- `nyc-paris-flight`
- `goonvpn-youtube-spot`
## Notes
- The zip also contained unrelated project directories, but this PR intentionally includes only the four prompt-matched Catalog blocks requested here.
- The imported one-shot compositions may trigger the existing large-composition lint warning, but there are no lint errors and runtime validation passes.
## Problem
Closes#555. Studio users could inspect the preview, but there was no first-class way to capture the current rendered frame as an image.
## What this fixes
- Adds a `Capture` action to the Studio header toolbar so it does not cover the video preview.
- Downloads the current composition frame as a PNG using the current player time.
- Extends the existing thumbnail route and Studio/CLI thumbnail generators with an explicit PNG format path while preserving JPEG thumbnails for existing previews.
- Adds URL/filename utility coverage plus thumbnail route coverage for PNG requests.
## Root cause
Studio already had frame thumbnail generation, but the API path was JPEG-oriented and the editor UI only used it for previews. There was no current-frame capture affordance wired to the player state.
## Verification
### Local
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/core test src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio test src/utils/frameCapture.test.ts src/player/components/PlayerControls.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/studio typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/core typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/server/studioServer.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.test.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/types.ts packages/studio/src/App.tsx packages/studio/src/icons/SystemIcons.tsx packages/studio/vite.config.ts packages/studio/src/utils/frameCapture.ts packages/studio/src/utils/frameCapture.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/cli/src/server/studioServer.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.test.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/routes/thumbnail.ts packages/core/src/studio-api/types.ts packages/studio/src/App.tsx packages/studio/src/icons/SystemIcons.tsx packages/studio/vite.config.ts packages/studio/src/utils/frameCapture.ts packages/studio/src/utils/frameCapture.test.ts`
- `git diff --check`
### Browser
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060-130839a2d419" />
Use loadRuntimeSource() from runtimeSource.ts instead of a single
hardcoded path. Tries: build from source (dev), inlined constant
(production), pre-built artifact (fallback). Fixes snapshot in dev
mode where __dirname is src/commands/ not dist/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(render): auto-detect HDR from media probes, add --sdr flag
Replace the --hdr opt-in model with automatic detection. When no flags
are passed, the renderer probes all video/image sources and enables HDR
output if any HDR color space is detected. Existing --hdr flag becomes
a force override. New --sdr flag forces SDR output.
Behavior matrix:
(no flags) + HDR content → HDR output
(no flags) + SDR content → SDR output
--hdr → force HDR (defaults to HLG if no HDR sources)
--sdr → force SDR (skips probing)
--hdr --sdr → error
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: align HDR auto-detect docs and tests
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The snapshot command resolved the HyperFrames runtime IIFE via a
relative path that walked up three directories to packages/core/dist/.
This only worked in the monorepo dev layout — npm/npx installs have
a flat dist/ folder with cli.js and the runtime side by side.
Without the runtime, window.__player was never created and the
snapshot fell back to seeking every __timelines entry to the same
absolute time. Sub-composition timelines expect relative time
(offset from their data-start), so all beats rendered beat-1 content.
Fix: resolve("hyperframe.runtime.iife.js") from __dirname (the dist/
folder itself), where the build already copies the runtime IIFE.
Miguel Ángel