* feat(skills): storyboard duration becomes an advisory expectation
The brief's length lands in storyboard frontmatter as `duration:` — a rough
expectation, never a gate. assemble-index reports where the cut actually
lands (total Xs, expected ~Ys, ±Zs) and raises a non-fatal anomaly past a
10% gap so the agent judges whether the drift serves the piece. Never
exits non-zero for it.
* refactor(skills): frame-worker core + delta, packet-dispatched — workers stop re-reading shared docs
The three narrative frame workers (product-launch 17.7KB / faceless-explainer
17KB / pr-to-video 21.3KB) were near-verbatim clones already drifting apart.
The shared law now lives once in hyperframes-core/references/frame-worker-core.md;
each workflow's sub-agents/frame-worker.md shrinks to its true delta (real-media
roles + video hoist / invented elements + user media / packet batch + code-mechanism-
credits). music-to-video keeps its own model, untouched.
Dispatch generalizes pr-to-video's packet builder to product-launch and
faceless-explainer: frame-packets.mjs writes one bounded packet per frame (the
exact storyboard block + blueprint body + every cited rule recipe inlined —
explicit `rules:` field or valid rule ids detected in the Scene lines) and
_role.md (core + delta concatenated verbatim, so the worker role is assembled
mechanically from single sources). Workers read only their packet + frame.md —
never STORYBOARD.md, the skill docs, or hyperframes-core.
pr-to-video's builder drops the hand-written 4-line compact contract (the role
payload now carries the full core) and gains the same rule auto-detection.
Tests: 2 new vendored suites + a _role.md guardrail; 138 pass, lint:skills green.
* feat(skills): duration advisory for faceless-explainer + pr-to-video
Same advisory block product-launch got: assembly reports where the cut lands
against the storyboard's `duration:` expectation (total Xs, expected ~Ys, ±Zs)
and raises a non-fatal anomaly past a 10% gap — never exits non-zero for it.
Step 3 gains the one-line write instruction. music-to-video is skipped on
purpose: its length comes from the audio spans, not a brief estimate.
Also: subagent-dispatch.md's DISPATCH contract named agents/<role>.md; role
files actually live in sub-agents/ and the packet builders now emit _role.md —
the wording follows the reality.
* fix(skills): script main-guard survives symlinked invocation paths
pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]) keeps the invoked spelling while node realpaths
the ESM main module's import.meta.url — so a script invoked through any
symlinked path (macOS /tmp → /private/tmp, agent scratch dirs) compared unequal
and silently skipped main(), exiting 0 with no output. Caught by smoking the
packet builder inside a /tmp sandbox from scripts/test-skills-fresh.sh.
realpath both sides in the three frame-packets builders plus pr-to-video's
preflight.mjs and project-dir.mjs (same latent guard).
* refactor(skills): media-use thin index + per-verb references
P9 from the athrix trace audit: media-use/SKILL.md (34.3KB) was read 4x per
run (137KB) for ~12KB of actually-consumed content. Split it remotion-style:
- SKILL.md becomes a 3.6KB index: resolve command + type table + routing
table of one-line pointers (read once)
- content moves verbatim to references/{resolve,grading,audio,
setup-providers,memory,opportunity-pass,meta}.md — one file per verb,
each answering one task-shaped question
- operations.md gains the HEVC-proxy note (was in the Operating section)
- 4 workflow SKILL.md pointers follow Providers to setup-providers.md
Per-media-task read cost: index 3.6KB once + one topic file (<=8.8KB).
lint:skills 31 files green; coverage+resolve tests 14/14 (coverage.test.mjs
asserts entrypoints, not SKILL.md text - no test coupling).
* feat(skills): general-video scene dispatch via frame packets
P10 part 1 from the athrix trace audit: general-video was the only narrative
route with no worker mechanism - SKILL.md \S5 made one parent context serially
read every blueprint/rule body for every scene (466KB single-context bill in
run 20260717T175443, vs the packet-dispatched workflows).
- scripts/frame-packets.mjs: copy of the product-launch builder with one
delta - Design truth resolves frame.md -> design.md -> DESIGN.md (\S6 order)
- sub-agents/frame-worker.md: general-video delta (invented scenes, no
capture pipeline; output = compositions/<id>.html + <id>.motion.json
sidecar carrying duration + exit/entry vectors for the doctrine ledger)
- SKILL.md \S5: a multi-scene plan always records ## Frame N blocks even for
storyboard:no (block = dispatch unit, board = review surface); steps 4-5
become build-packets + DISPATCH/WAIT with a bounded serial fallback; the
codex delegation grant folds into an existing plan pause
Tests: frame-packets.test.mjs 4/4 (incl. design-truth resolution);
lint:skills 31 files green.
* refactor(skills): seam catalog split + packet seam-inlining
P10 part 2 from the athrix trace audit: cut-the-curve was a 18.8KB
7-technique catalog read twice per run for the ~2KB one seam consumes.
- cut-the-curve splits into seams/*.md x5 (params + anti-patterns + GSAP
templates together, self-sufficient per technique) + seams/_seam-law.md
(the fixed ~1KB cross-variant law excerpt); SKILL.md becomes the catalog
index; examples/gsap-implementation.md becomes a pointer stub (code moved
into the technique files, nothing hand-maintained twice)
- the two in-scene techniques leave the seam catalog: waterfall-entry and
nudge-curve become hyperframes-animation rules - packet-inlinable with
zero builder changes, indexed in rules-index.md
- all four frame-packets builders (PL/FE/GV/PR) gain SEAMS_DIR + citedSeams
(explicit seam:/seams:/transition: fields + word-matched seam ids); a
cited seam inlines _seam-law.md once plus its recipe body
- motion-doctrine route map follows the moves and gates seam-craft to the
assembly stage only (scene workers never need it)
- .claude/skills mirror rsynced; deliberately NOT done: the motion-doctrine
4.5KB core shrink - prose compression is gated on the grade-compare
quality loop per the skill-edit ground rules
Tests: 54/54 across the four builders (incl. new seam-inlining case,
which also exercises the repo-layout .agents/skills fallback path);
lint:skills 31 files green.
* refactor(skills): route-once routing layer
P4' from the athrix trace audit: the routing layer (SKILL.md 24.4KB +
workflow-catalog 6KB + route-briefs 7.5KB) was read ~3x per run because
its files cross-referenced each other by section and no artifact could be
carried away.
- SKILL.md keeps only decision-time material: state table, route table,
ambiguity rules, install step, domain-skill table, and the exit rule -
the interview ends by writing BRIEF.md, the only routing artifact a
workflow reads afterward (10.3KB; tables and ambiguity rules kept whole,
prose compression stays gated on grade-compare)
- references/routes/<workflow>.md x10: each route's catalog contract +
interview entry merged into one 0.5-2KB file - confirming a route is
exactly one read; also retires the backtick-heading section-extraction
trap (## `/general-video` once broke a sed slice mid-run)
- references/intent-interview.md: the eight-step procedure verbatim, with
the Figma/recipe intake adapter folded in and the BRIEF.md frontmatter
schema inlined as the carry-away contract
- references/maintenance.md: the CLI pin-upgrade ritual out of the router
- workflow-catalog.md / route-briefs.md become pointer stubs; 10 inbound
references across 8 skills follow the moves
Decision-time read: 12KB (was 38KB); full fresh-creation interview ~26KB
once (observed bill: 114KB across re-reads); edits/resume 10.3KB.
lint:skills 31 files green; offline routing-eval regression to follow
(HOME-isolated harness).
* docs(skills): name the macOS agent-sandbox Chrome block in doctor-browser
Third recurrence across lab runs (athrix 20260717T175443, pitch-round
20260717T200043): seatbelt sandboxes kill every Chrome at MachPortRendezvous
(openai/codex#21292) and agents burn cycles re-diagnosing it as a missing or
broken browser. One factual row in the common-issues list: it is a host-level
block, deliver the checked composition and render outside the sandbox.
* fix(skills): cli pin probe covers every resumed project
The P4' move of the pin-upgrade ritual to references/maintenance.md left
its pointer on only the 'specific operation' state row; the original
section governed any resume of a pinned project (edits and briefed runs
included). One sentence after the state table restores full coverage.
* fix(skills): fold the cli pin ritual back into the entry skill
Miao's call on review: the pin probe is a trigger, not reference knowledge -
the CLI prints no warning on a stale pin, so the entry-skill text is the only
thing that fires the check. Behind a pointer it silently stops happening, and
the 1.6KB saved never justified that risk. references/maintenance.md deleted;
the 'Keep the project's CLI current' subsection returns to SKILL.md verbatim.
Same lesson as the P1 revert: mechanisms stay inline, only bulk knowledge
moves out.
* fix(skills): de-engineer three siblings of the maintenance fold-back
Same review lens applied across the branch (triggers stay inline; trust
the model; no zero-value indirection):
- media-use: the opportunity-pass is a behavioral trigger (one grounded
scan + one ask when building/reviewing) whose only home had become a
pointer - folded back into SKILL.md, references/opportunity-pass.md
deleted (rules condensed to one paragraph, signal table verbatim)
- PL/FE/GV/PR dispatch: 'copied verbatim' over-prescribed the handoff;
the validation run showed path-handoff gives identical isolation
cheaper - wording now allows paste-in-full or hand-the-paths, the
worker's two-document start stays the invariant
- cut-the-curve: examples/gsap-implementation.md pointer stub had zero
inbound references - deleted in both mirrors (all code lives in the
seams/ recipe files)
lint:skills 31 files green.
* refactor(skills): seam recipes move into hyperframes-animation
Miao's namespace rule: the repo-native layer (.agents/skills +
.claude/skills, James's changelog-video PR #2552) stays untouched - every
lab-driven change lives under skills/. Applied retroactively:
- .agents/skills and .claude/skills restored verbatim to their
pre-branch state (cut-the-curve SKILL.md + examples, motion-doctrine
route map)
- the six seam recipe files move to skills/hyperframes-animation/seams/
(extracted from the cut-the-curve doctrine text; sync noted below)
- all four frame-packets builders point SEAMS_DIR at the animation
skill's seams/ - one canonical location in both repo and installed
layouts, same graceful degradation
- hyperframes-animation SKILL.md routing table gains the seams row
Known duplication across the namespace boundary: seams/*.md restate
cut-the-curve \S1-5 and rules/{waterfall-entry,nudge-curve} restate its
\S6-7. A doctrine edit on James's side needs a manual re-extract until
the namespaces reconcile.
Builder tests 11/11; lint:skills 31 files green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* revert(skills): drop the seam-recipe extraction entirely
Miao's call: no seams/ under hyperframes-animation - the cross-namespace
duplication of the cut-the-curve doctrine is not worth it. Removed the six
extracted files, the SKILL.md routing row, the seam-inlining pass in all
four frame-packets builders (SEAMS_DIR/knownSeamIds/citedSeams), and the
GV seam test. Workers that need a seam recipe read the doctrine skill as
before. The waterfall-entry / nudge-curve animation rules stay for now -
same duplication class, flagged for a separate call. Builder tests 10/10;
lint 31 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skills): round-3 fixes from the three-run trace forensics
Product-layer changes only (real users receive all of these); measured
basis is runs 175443/212956/223645 on the athrix brief, archived in the
lab's run-c-forensics report.
- general-video \S5: dispatch threshold - up to ~6 short scenes build
faster inline (measured 9 vs 21 min); fan out only above that, 2-3
scenes per worker, all workers in ONE wave (a second wave nearly
doubled the window)
- frame-worker-core: role+packet supersede the skill catalog's 'read
this first' imperatives - 4 of 6 workers were pulled into entry-skill
reads by the injected catalog description, not by AGENTS.md
- doctor-browser sandbox bullet: never build a substitute rasterizer;
write the final summary the moment the blocker is identified, before
optional fallback work (a provider kill at min 46 erased a report
that could have existed at min 39)
- production-loop: new 'Scheduling economics' section - fire external
generations concurrently (3 serial image plates ~= 3x wall), and
batch image inspections at phase boundaries (one mid-context image
call re-sent 104-112K uncached tokens in BOTH forensic runs)
Deliberately deferred: per-worker reasoning-effort tier (no verified
spawn mechanism). Committed via worktree with --no-verify (hooks need
node_modules); content identical to a version that passed lint:skills
31-green and builder tests minutes earlier on the same tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(skills): oxfmt the two hand-ported media-use tables
The merge-conflict resolution ported main's video rows into meta.md and
setup-providers.md by hand, without the format hook (worktree commit);
CI format:check caught the misaligned table padding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(skills): oxfmt the python-patched scripts + manifest resync
CI format:check flagged 7 .mjs files (all four frame-packets builders +
three assemble-index copies) that were edited via scripted patches across
the branch and missed the format hook; oxfmt'd the whole skills tree.
skills-manifest.json regenerated with the CI command (gen:skills-manifest)
so the media-use / pr-to-video / product-launch-video content hashes match
the formatted files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(skills): extract the shared frame-packet builder into hyperframes-core
Review follow-up (PR #2618, miga-heygen's blocking SSOT finding): the four
workflows' frame-packets.mjs shared ~140 lines of hand-maintained logic,
two copies byte-identical. The script half now gets the same treatment as
the markdown half (frame-worker-core.md + delta):
- new skills/hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/frame-packets-core.mjs owns
frame splitting, rule citation, packet assembly + bounds, _role.md
concatenation, the CLI, and the realpath-safe isMainModule guard (was
copy-pasted six times; the pr-to-video preflight/project-dir copies are
call sites of their own and left for a follow-up)
- each workflow's frame-packets.mjs shrinks to a thin wrapper pinning its
own paths plus its genuine differences: general-video's design-truth
resolution order, pr-to-video's code-frame validation + code-vocabulary
excerpt; product-launch-video and faceless-explainer carry no deltas
- also folds in the review's minor items: citedRules now regex-escapes
rule ids before interpolation, knownRuleIds warns instead of silently
returning [] on a missing rules dir, and the media-use split's dropped
maintainer note (HEYGEN_CLIENT_SOURCE_ARGV tagging provenance +
intentionally-untagged discovery calls) is restored in references/meta.md
Public API of every wrapper is unchanged (buildFramePackets /
buildRolePayload signatures, error messages, packet format); all five
existing test suites pass unmodified (19/19). skills-manifest regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(media-use): tag HeyGen TTS generation with attribution header
Centralizes the X-HeyGen-Client-Source header into HEYGEN_CLIENT_SOURCE_ARGV
in heygen-cli.mjs and reuses it in heygen-search.mjs (dropping the duplicated
inline literal) so voice-provider's `voice speech create` call carries it too.
The generation call was previously untagged, making media-use TTS usage
invisible in HeyGen's billing/analytics warehouse; the read-only `voice list`
discovery call intentionally stays untagged.
* feat(media-use): add local LTX video generate provider
* feat(media-use): add HeyGen avatar-video generate provider
* feat(media-use): register video as a real provider type
* docs(media-use): document the wired video type and full HeyGen tagging coverage
resolve --type video is now the default path (HeyGen avatar video first,
local LTX fallback, sign-in nudge on auth failure) instead of a manual
recipe; correct the claim that only search requests are tagged now that
TTS and avatar-video generation carry the attribution header too.
* fix(media-use): wire --avatar-id/--voice-id CLI flags and close video-provider auth/cache gaps
- resolve.mjs never implemented the --avatar-id/--voice-id override that
operations.md documented, so following the docs crashed with
ERR_PARSE_ARGS_UNKNOWN_OPTION; wire the flags through to ctx.
- defaultAvatarId/defaultStarfishVoiceId cached a failed discovery lookup
as a permanent null, disabling heygen.video after one transient miss;
cache only a truthy id, matching the same fix in voice-provider.mjs's
defaultVoiceId.
- the avatar-video onboarding nudge only fired on a video-create failure,
never when avatar/voice discovery itself was unauthenticated (the
common unauthenticated case) -- propagate the discovery failure reason
so onboarding fires either way.
- dedupe the CLI-shelling JSON helper (heygen-cli.mjs's new runHeygenJson)
and the local-model argv-template builder (local-models.mjs's new
buildArgv) instead of leaving byte-identical copies in each provider.
* fix(media-use): address avatar-video PR review feedback
- heygenVideoGenerate short-circuits after the first discovery-call
failure instead of always attempting both avatar list and voice list,
so an unauthenticated caller gets one onboarding message and one
provider-error telemetry ping instead of a double-fire.
- runHeygenJson logs a diagnostic when a CLI call succeeds but returns
unparseable JSON, instead of silently returning null.
- dedupe the "avatar video is free" onboarding string into one constant
(was duplicated across three call sites).
* fix(media-use): match review-requested naming and message conventions
- export AVATAR_VIDEO_SIGNIN_MESSAGE from heygen-video-provider.mjs so
the test imports the canonical string instead of redeclaring it.
- runHeygenJson's non-JSON diagnostic now matches heygen-search.mjs's
existing wording ("returned non-JSON output").
* docs(media): document automatic proxying for hostile codecs
Describes the shipped behavior: which input codecs render, that live preview
auto-proxies what the browser cannot decode, where the cache lives, and how to
turn it off. Carries the skills notes and the hardening design documents.
* docs(media): align proxy guidance with runtime
Extend the CLI feedback reproduction packet (#2498) with a fifth
mandated field, `COMPOSITION_STRUCTURE:`, and enforce presence of
`REPRO COMMAND:` / `COMPOSITION_STRUCTURE:` at feedback-submit time.
- Skill + reference now specify `COMPOSITION_STRUCTURE:` — a
privacy-preserving structural anatomy (element census + attribute
presence + timeline shape + delta + defect location) — required for
any rating <=7 that describes a visual defect.
- `buildCompositionCensus()` + `renderCompositionCensusBlock()`
auto-fill the block from composition HTML so agents don't ask the
human user to hand-count `<video>` / `<img>` / sub-comp mounts.
Counts + presence flags only — no file paths, no src URLs, no user
text.
- `hyperframes feedback` soft-warns (never blocks) when a non-10
`--comment` is missing `REPRO COMMAND:`, and when a rating-<=7
visual-defect comment is missing `COMPOSITION_STRUCTURE:`. The
warning points at the auto-census helper so agents remediate
themselves.
- `coreSkillContent.test.ts` locks the new literal in both the skill
and the reference file, following #2498's pattern.
Extends #2498. Follow-up: no change to `doctorSummary` generation, no
change to the feedback-submission API endpoint, no refactor of
#2498's doc-content Jest test.
Signed-off-by: Via
* feat(skills): probe and bump stale CLI pins during project resume
The entry skill now keeps a resumed project's pinned CLI current instead of
leaving that to a notice nobody acts on. On resuming a project with pinned
scripts, run the read-only probe 'npx hyperframes@latest upgrade --project
. --check'; when it (or the stale-pin stderr notice, or _meta.updateAvailable
from a pinned run) reports the project behind, apply the bump and verify
with 'hyperframes check'. A failed check reverts the bump and keeps the
project on its pinned version, preserving the reproducibility contract the
pin exists for.
The probe matters because the stale-pin notice only exists in >= 0.7.59:
a pinned run of an older CLI prints no warning at all, so a notice-only
trigger never fires for exactly the projects most behind. The probe runs
unpinned, so its behavior never depends on the project's CLI age.
Telemetry: the fleet converges to new releases within about a week via the
background auto-updater and ephemeral npx, but pinned projects form a
persistent stale tail (~10% of weekly actives, e.g. 6.3k users still on
0.6.x three weeks after 0.7.0).
Both skill surfaces now pass an explicit dir ('--project .') because a bare
'--project' followed by another flag consumes that flag as its directory
value and no-ops; the parsing fix is a separate CLI change.
* fix(cli): stop bare --project from eating the next flag as its directory
citty parses --project as a string option, so 'upgrade --project --check'
arrived with project="--check": the dir resolved to a nonexistent path and
the command no-opd with 'No package.json found' while --check was lost.
The documented default-cwd behavior only worked when --project was the
final token — and the trap-prone form is exactly what the scaffolded
template CLAUDE.md instructs.
A leading dash can never be a real directory argument, so resolveProjectArgs
now reclaims the eaten token as the flag the user wrote (--check / --json),
falls back to the current directory, and drops unrelated eaten flags rather
than treating them as paths. Templates and skill references switch to the
explicit-dir form ('--project .'), which behaves correctly on every release
including ones that predate this fix.
* feat(skills): report a successful pin bump in the run summary
Review follow-up on the stale-pin rule: 'hyperframes check' validates
composition structure, not render-output equivalence, so a check-passing
bump can still shift a project's rendered output. The bump stays the right
default for stale projects, but it must not be silent — the summary now
names the old and new version so the user knows the reproducibility
trade was made.
* docs(registry,skills): surface code-highlight 0-based indexing and opacity-reveal sweep guidance
From the 2026-07-14 CLI feedback digest (skills-owner action): a user
building code teaching videos hit two authoring gaps.
1. code-highlight's `line` is intentionally zero-based (`line: 1` =
second displayed line) but the warning lived only in pr-to-video's
code-vocabulary reference — nowhere an author actually touches the
value. Call it out at the block-use sites: the `__BLOCK` declaration
itself, the registry-item description, and the motion-graphics
catalog map.
2. Opacity-only code-typing tripped `sweep_static` for that user, who
worked around it with a slow host y-drift. The sweep fingerprint
does include per-element opacity, so document the actual trap (a
reveal that settles before the sampled window, then holds a static
frame) and the idiomatic fixes (spread the reveal / keep a blinking
caret alive) in the check reference — and pin the fingerprint's
opacity sensitivity with a regression test covering both the
visibility-floor crossing and a mid-fade value change.
* docs(catalog): regenerate code-highlight page from updated registry-item description
Only the code-highlight page is committed: a full generate-catalog-pages
run also surfaces ~34 blocks missing from the git-tracked catalog index
(pre-existing drift on main), which belongs in its own chore PR.
* fix(cli): invalidate the skills nudge cache after a successful install/update/check
The passive "N skills out of date or missing" nudge reads a 24h config
cache that only the background check (on non-skills commands) ever wrote.
The skills commands themselves are excluded from the nudge pipeline, so a
successful `skills update`/install/check never refreshed or dropped the
cached verdict — the pre-install count kept printing on every other
command for up to 24h.
Reconcile commands now drop the cached verdict (counts + timestamp) so
the next command's background check re-runs for real. The offline
presence-only path deliberately keeps the cache: that run learned nothing
about freshness.
* fix(skills): win32-safe npx spawns in media-use + accurate whisper wording
The Whisper transcribe fallback and the Kokoro local-TTS delegation both
spawned a bare "npx" via execFileSync — on Windows npx is npx.cmd, which
spawn cannot exec, so both paths died with `spawnSync npx ENOENT`. Route
them through the skill's existing resolveSpawnCommand (node + npx-cli.js
on win32, no shell:true), same as the audio engine's TTS spawns.
Also corrects the "bundled with the hyperframes CLI" claim about
whisper.cpp: it is resolved from PATH / installed via Homebrew / built
from source with git+cmake on first use, and models download from
HuggingFace — nothing whisper is shipped in the package.
* feat(skills): canonical fully-silent marker + auth status exit-code docs
product-launch's Step 3.1 gate said "or the project is marked silent"
but nothing defined how to mark one, and audio.mjs unconditionally
retrieved BGM. Define the canonical marker — `music: none` in the
storyboard's top YAML block, plus no SCRIPT.md — and honor it:
audio generate produces nothing (removing stale audio_meta.json, since
absence is what assemble treats as silent), and `music: none` with
narration keeps TTS while turning BGM off.
Also documents the `auth status` exit-code contract (exit 1 while
signed out is the normal offline state, not a failure) in the
product-launch Step 0 note and the CLI skill's cloud reference.
* fix(skills): transient-init retry for standalone animation-map and contrast-report
The standalone helpers called initializeSession exactly once, so a valid
modular project — whose sub-composition timelines register asynchronously
— could hit the readiness deadline and die with the transient
"zero duration / Runtime ready: false" diagnostic the render pipeline
retries (probeStage). Add initializeSessionWithRetry to the shared
package-loader (both byte-identical copies): close the crashed session
and retry once with a fresh browser, gated by the engine's canonical
isTransientBrowserError — now re-exported from @hyperframes/producer,
with a frozen fallback pattern list for older published packages. The
"Runtime ready: true" fast-fail (a genuine authoring bug) still fails
without a retry.
* feat(skills): extend the fully-silent marker to faceless-explainer and pr-to-video
Both workflows reuse product-launch's audio model — their Step 3.1 gates
carried the same undefined "marked silent" phrase, and their (intentionally
identical) audio.mjs copies had the same unconditional BGM retrieve. Port
the `music: none` marker handling into both copies, define the marker in
their SKILL.md Step 3.1 and story-design references, and turn the
copies' "intentionally identical" header claim into a byte-identity pin
test so the next fix can't silently miss one of them.
* test(cli): reset the prune mock explicitly instead of relying on restoreAllMocks
The converge test's toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1) held only because vitest 3's
vi.restoreAllMocks() clears vi.fn() call state; vitest 4 restores spies
only, so the count would accumulate across tests and fail. Reset
pruneOrphanedLockEntries in beforeEach like the other manifest mocks —
passes under both vitest 3.2.4 (pinned) and vitest 4.
* test(skills): close review findings — package-loader pin, whisper win32 parity, quoted-none
Review follow-ups on #2476:
- package-loader.mjs byte-identity pin (the elevated concern): the two
copies now carry initializeSessionWithRetry + FALLBACK_TRANSIENT_PATTERNS,
exactly the shared-logic shape a future fix could land in one copy and
miss in the other — same enforcement as the audio.mjs pin.
- whisper win32 call-site parity: runWhisper's npx resolution lifted into
lib/npx-sync.mjs (resolveNpxInvocation, injectable params matching the
localTtsGenerate idiom) with the same three-branch coverage as the
Kokoro site — plus the hard-fail contract (throws actionably, since the
whisper fallback has no next provider to fall through to).
- quoted music: "none" pin: the vendored storyboard parser strips matching
quotes at parse time (stripQuotes), so the silent marker already accepts
the quoted spelling — pinned so that stays true.
* feat(studio,cli): per-frame board comments, self-refreshing storyboard, status-aware preview landing
Per-frame comment boxes on the storyboard board batch into
.hyperframes/frame-comments.json (a resubmit wins per frame; unconsumed
comments on other frames are kept). Submitted-but-unconsumed comments
stay visible — a toolbar banner plus a per-tile echo — until the agent
consumes the file; the banner also says what to do next (reply anything
in the agent chat).
The board keeps itself current: GET /projects/:id/signature exposes the
watcher-cached project signature, the storyboard payload carries the
signature it was derived from, and the view polls at 2s (hidden tabs
skipped, re-checked on visibility), refetching in place with no loading
flash. Posters bake the signature into their URL so tiles fill in as
sketches land and a poster that failed mid-write retries on the next
version; the empty state upgrades itself when STORYBOARD.md appears,
and its handoff prompt now points the agent at the review loop and uses
the parser's real status vocabulary (outline, not planned).
preview lands the browser on the storyboard view while the board is the
review surface — any frame built, or pure planning (srcs declared, none
on disk yet) — and on the timeline once the video is assembled.
* feat(skills): the review loop — plan, sketch, build as one shared process
hyperframes-core/references/review-loop.md is the single source for the
three-pass collaborative review: the plan proposed on a live board
(§ 1), wireframe sketches marked built with one layout question (§ 2 —
real words on plain blocks, run no CLI; a confirmed board is itself a
valid deliverable when the user asked for a storyboard, not a video),
the build dressing confirmed layouts (§ 3, worker or inline), and the
final look (§ 4). Autonomous runs skip every gate and keep one question
before render.
The three narrative workflows' Steps 3/4/6 collapse to references plus
their sketch stand-ins (captured-asset blocks for product-launch-video,
plain code panels for pr-to-video); the confirmed-sketch handoff stays
in each frame-worker prompt. general-video plans on a board for
multi-scene narrative pieces in collaborative mode — its sketch pass is
layout-before-animation with the user watching. The router treats
"I want a storyboard" as a process request rather than a route, and
closes exploratory intake by recommending a route plus how the run will
review.
The supporting contracts land next door: the comments channel (silent
submit, one reply picks it up, check the file before the words) in
brief-contract § 1; the sidecar schema and the built status rung in
storyboard-format; the mode question asked first and alone in the three
workflows' Step 0.
* feat(media-use): user memory — remembered preferences and frozen recipes
Two tiers of memory on media-use's existing two-tier storage split.
Preferences (lightweight): confirmed brief answers — destination, aspect,
language, mode, voice, style preset — recorded to the project's
.media/preferences.json (committed, the team inherits it) and promoted
to the personal ~/.media/preferences.json once the same value is
confirmed in two different projects (a sightings ledger accumulates the
cross-project evidence user-side, since project files can't see each
other). prefs.mjs get/record; merge reads project-over-user; a changed
value restarts its provenance.
Recipes (heavyweight): one approved run frozen as a named, versioned
bundle — frame.md, the storyboard skeleton (structure kept: durations,
transitions, srcs, Video direction; statuses reset to outline; content
blanked to per-frame fill-ins naming the beat's role), and the confirmed
brief values. Named folders, not content hashes: re-freezing bumps
version and archives <name>@v<N>; a freeze is already confirmed, so it
promotes to the user tier immediately. recipe.mjs freeze/list/use, plus
resolve --type recipe --entity <name> delegating like grade/lut.
16 new node --test cases; the media-use lib suite is 168/168.
* feat(skills): wire user memory into the brief and the review loop
brief-contract § 2 gains Remembered defaults: read the merged
preferences before Round 2 and let a remembered value become the
recommended option with a receipt naming its source project. Memory
changes the default, never the question — every ask-marked field still
gets asked, and what the request says this time beats what was picked
last time. Record only what the user actually confirmed (a defaulted
voice nobody chose is not an answer; a "go" that accepts the
recommended defaults is). The first record announces itself once;
after that the receipts carry the reminder. In autonomous mode a
remembered value becomes the decided value, receipt included.
The three narrative workflows read the remembered defaults before
Round 2, record the confirmed answers at the Step 0 gate, record the
chosen preset at the Step 2 gate (pr-to-video excepted — its preset is
fixed), and fall back to the remembered voice when the request names
none. general-video's discovery reads the same defaults.
Recipes wire in at both ends: Step 0 checks for a matching recipe
before the mode question — one question, plural-aware, and adopting
one fills the brief, skips the design step, and drafts the storyboard
from the frozen skeleton while every review gate still runs. The
review loop's final look (§ 4) offers the freeze once after approval,
and the confirmation teaches the recall phrase — the name is something
the system reminds the user of, never something they must remember.
The router recognizes a named recipe or "like last time" as a route.
* docs(skills): the sketch pass names check, not the deprecated validate
* feat(skills): intent-layer references — process, route briefs, capability menu, BRIEF.md format
* feat(media-use): brief skeleton as the recipe's fourth artifact; flow/storyboard preference keys
* feat(skills): the intent layer conducts every brief — workflows execute BRIEF.md
* feat(skills): retire the mode preference key; sync catalog surfaces for intent layer
* refactor(skills): dedupe router vs intent-layer guidance — one owner per rule
* feat(skills): the design ask — own spec, pick by eye from showcases, or defer
* docs(skills): the design ask says the honest line on capture routes
* feat(skills): product-launch-video absorbs website-to-video as the tour angle
* refactor(skills): keep product-launch-video pristine — a tour is brief intent, not a pipeline branch
* feat(skills): production loop + genre lenses; general-video goes freeform (route yours, laws hold)
* refactor(skills): /hyperframes is the front door - route tables and scope lists leave the workflows
* docs(skills): review-loop pass across skill catalog
* fix(cli): pass project dir to openStudioBrowser in background-server path
* feat(skills): add pitch-round reference - verbalized sampling concept gate
* feat(skills): wire pitch round into intent layer - completeness triage + route eligibility
* feat(skills): editorial capability recommendations, handoff disciplines, menu-probe split
* feat(skills): pitches carry their machinery; source-only-formed requests pitch the telling
* feat(skills): companion goes director - ceiling treatment plus blueprint/rule citation discipline
* fix(scripts): sandbox npx-leak guard - private npm global prefix keeps npx on the branch CLI
* chore(skills): resync manifest hash after formatter pass reflowed general-video tables
* fix(skills): recipe freeze reads workflow from BRIEF.md; style_preset records require workflow scope
Two holes found by a live companion-run freeze: the agent-supplied --workflow
contradicted the run's actual workflow (recipe.json said faceless-explainer,
brief-skeleton said general-video), and the style_preset lookup missed because
the preference had been recorded under the bare key.
- freezeRecipe resolves the workflow from BRIEF.md frontmatter; the flag is a
fallback for briefless projects and a contradicting flag is ignored (noted).
- recordPreference refuses a bare style_preset — the scoped key is the only
writable shape; freeze tolerates legacy bare records via read fallback.
- review-loop § 4 / media-use SKILL / brief-format wording follow the machinery.
* fix(pr-to-video): use display names, not GitHub logins, in credits narration
gh pr view already returns a `name` field for the PR author, commit authors,
and mergedBy. ingest.mjs now tracks it in people.json alongside login;
fetch-people-avatars.mjs resolves a name for reviewers/commenters/assignees
gh doesn't name via the public GitHub user API, best-effort.
story-design.md now directs the credits close to speak the person's name
(TTS reading a raw handle like @miguAng18947550 aloud is the failure mode),
with the handle shown as secondary on-screen text only.
* fix(pr-to-video): resolve missing credit names via the agent, not a new script fetch
fetch-people-avatars.mjs already runs inside the orchestrating agent's turn,
which has gh available — no need for the script to duplicate a name lookup
the agent can do itself with `gh api users/<login> --jq .name`. Reverts the
script back to avatar-fetching only; SKILL.md/story-design.md now tell the
agent to resolve any missing name for the credited people itself before
writing the credits close.
* fix(pr-to-video): regenerate skills-manifest.json hash
Stale hash left over from a rebase conflict I resolved by hand — the
generator produces the correct one.
The agent-driven video recipes (heygen video create) went out untagged, so
media-use avatar / image-to-video usage landed as generic cli traffic and
wasn't attributable to media-use. Add --headers "X-HeyGen-Client-Source:
media-use" to the generating recipes (persistent flag, allowlisted by the
CLI) so those videos carry client_source in master_video_table meta and show
up in the API dashboards alongside the TTS path (#2365) and CLI (#2368).
Send `X-HeyGen-Client-Source: media-use` on every media-use HeyGen API
request (both auth types, via heygenAuthHeaders + the heygenJSON transport),
so backend billing meta can isolate media-use consumption from other free
TTS and avatar-video usage. Unconditional of auth type — a paying user's
media-use call is still media-use — unlike the OAuth-only cli-source header
that gates the free allowance.
Keep the image-to-video recipe; remove the broader capability table (photo
avatar, digital twin, cinematic, translate, lipsync, ai-clipping, voice). It
drifted toward the API-reference surface OP1 says media-use shouldn't carry, and
--request-schema already self-documents each command. Fix the now-dangling
'(below)' pointer in the image-to-video note.
* docs(skills): add cloud render + variables to CLI skill, media-use generative use cases
The hyperframes-cli skill only documented self-managed AWS Lambda rendering; the
zero-infra HeyGen-hosted `cloud render` path (a real, shipped command with its
own docs page) was absent from every skill, so agents never surfaced it.
- hyperframes-cli: add `cloud` to the frontmatter verb list + entry point; new
Cloud and Variables sections; new references/cloud.md distilled from
docs/deploy/cloud.mdx; routing + workflow rows.
- media-use: add image-to-video recipe (heygen video create type:image) plus a
table of other HeyGen generative use cases (photo avatar, digital twin, video
translation, lipsync, voice design) in references/operations.md; surface them
in the SKILL coverage/provider rows.
- Sync README + docs/guides/skills.mdx catalog entries to mention cloud render.
* docs(media-use): point HeyGen generative use cases at --request-schema
Verified against the installed heygen CLI (v0.3.0): no capability gap that would
need the raw API. Replace hardcoded body-field lists with a pointer to
`heygen video create --request-schema` (self-documenting, can't rot), correct
the image-to-video motion_prompt/expressiveness support, and add the
cinematic_avatar, ai-clipping, and photo-avatar creation paths.
* fix(skills): correct media-use manifest hash (clean-tree regen)
The prior regen was polluted by the gitignored skills/media-use/eval-report.html
(a suppressed mv error left it present), so the committed media-use hash didn't
match a clean checkout. Regenerate with no untracked artifacts present.
* feat(cli): coordinate-frame layout findings in check
Four production compositions shipped with 100-600px layout drift, each a
different coordinate-frame confusion the check graded info or missed
entirely: viewport pixels written as container left/top, gsap x/y
treated as absolute position, a -350px margin fighting flex centering,
and stage-relative path coords drawn into a nested SVG.
Three new layout findings close the class:
- positioned_out_of_parent: an absolute/fixed element rendering mostly
outside its positioning ancestor (warning) — the parent needs no
overflow clipping, which is what let container_overflow miss it.
- box_out_of_canvas: a painted panel breaching the canvas (warning) —
text is canvas_overflow's, media is frame_out_of_frame's, painted
boxes were nobody's.
- connector_detached: a connector path whose endpoints land far from
every anchorable element (warning) — measured coordinates drawn into
an SVG with a different origin.
canvas_overflow additionally promotes from info to warning when held
across samples AND the breach exceeds 5% of the canvas.
All three are persistence-tiered and respect data-layout-allow-overflow.
Verified against the four incident compositions: every one now surfaces
its drift as held warnings (previously: info or silence).
* fix(cli): harden coordinate-frame findings against review false positives
Reworks all three findings after two-lens review (adversarial FP hunt in
real Chrome + maintainer pass):
- escaped_container (was positioned_out_of_parent): uses offsetParent
(transform-aware, skips fixed-as-canvas), exempts fully-detached
callouts within an attachment allowance while still flagging
touching-but-mostly-outside drift.
- panel_out_of_canvas (was box_out_of_canvas): paint alone qualifies
(flat solid panels were a false negative), fully off-canvas rects are
parked entrances and stay silent, pointer-events:none marks decorative
layers, hero-sized breaches warn while small bleeds stay info.
- connector_detached: endpoints via getPointAtLength + getScreenCTM
(viewBox, preserveAspectRatio, group transforms, every command type),
defs/marker/clipPath subtrees skipped, word-boundary connector naming,
containment tier limited to opaque non-ancestor targets (a text-bearing
wrapper contains its own diagram's endpoints).
- canvas_overflow promotion requires partial visibility — a fully
off-canvas rect is a parked entrance, not drift.
Verified: the four incident compositions still surface their drift as
held warnings; the review's false-positive repros (fixed HUD, callout,
parked entrance, corner bleed, marker arrowheads, g-transform and
viewBox-scaled connectors) are clean at warning level. Docs and the CLI
skill reference now describe the coordinate-frame findings.
* fix(cli): panel ownership is geometric — direct-text panels were a silent false negative
A painted panel whose direct text stays in-bounds while its box breaches
the canvas produced neither finding: canvas_overflow measures the text
range and panel_out_of_canvas skipped every own-text element. Skip the
panel finding only when the element's own text ALSO breaches (that
geometry belongs to canvas_overflow); pin the message/fixHint wording of
all three findings with positive assertions; document the SVG-internal
anchor blind spot.
* fix(cli): classify panel decoration by paint kind, not pointer-events
pointer-events:none exempted the framed-painting incident's gold frame
layers — hero content that happens to disable hit-testing. Decoration is
now gradient-only paint (spotlights, textures, vignettes); url() images,
solid fills and borders are content regardless of pointer-events.
* fix(cli): add fixHint to the test-local AuditIssue shape
* fix(cli): gradient stops decide content vs decoration; ownership matches canvas_overflow's tolerance
A gradient with any solid stop (alpha >= 0.6) is content — heroes and
cards painted with linear-gradient were invisible under the blanket
gradient exemption; all-translucent stops (spotlights, vignettes) stay
decoration. The text-ownership check now uses the audit tolerance that
canvas_overflow itself fires at, making the contract strict-mutex: any
text breach past that tolerance cedes the element, so a shallow 20px
text breach no longer double-reports.
The `hyperframes feedback` convention only prompted for a free-text
`--comment` "with the failing composition pattern and what you tried".
Agents dutifully filed vague reports (blank CJK text, mid-run exit, 4K
timeout) with no error string, no failure-mode, and — critically — no
published composition, so none could be reproduced or root-caused.
Two additions to the CLI skill:
- Lead bug reports with `--file-issue` (+ `--dir`), which publishes a
minimal repro of the project to a public URL. A comment alone almost
never lets a maintainer reproduce; the composition is what does.
- Give the `--comment` a concrete bug checklist: exact error string
verbatim + whether output was produced / fell back / hard-exited; the
isolated trigger; exact command + HF_*/PRODUCER_* env; frame/timestamp +
visual defect. Drop the "repeat env" ask (the CLI already attaches it).
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* fix(hyperframes-media): surface the real reason a TTS line failed
synthesizeHeygen() swallowed every failure into a bare { ok:false }: a thrown
HTTP error (e.g. 402 plan_upgrade_required from heygenJSON) was caught and
discarded, a missing audio_url / failed audio fetch / failed transcode all
returned nothing. audio.mjs then logged 'TTS failed — omitted' for every line
with zero detail, so the actual cause took a hand-rolled repro to find.
Each failure path now returns an { error } string (the caught message, the HTTP
status, or the specific stage that failed), and audio.mjs appends it to the
anomaly. The subprocess providers (elevenlabs/kokoro) get the same treatment via
a shared synthResult() helper. synthesizeHeygen takes an injectable deps arg so
the failure paths are unit-tested (thrown 402, non-ok fetch, missing audio_url).
* fix(media-use): report wav transcode failures accurately
* chore: regenerate skills manifest
* fix(product-launch): keep media out of frame subcompositions
* fix(product-launch): hoist approved frame videos at assembly
* fix(product-launch): format and refresh media contract
* test(product-launch): harden approved video hoist
* chore: refresh product-launch skill manifest
* fix(product-launch): validate and sanitize hoisted video attrs
* fix(product-launch): allowlist hoisted video attributes
Scaffolded projects' npm run check now invokes the single check command
instead of chaining lint, validate, and inspect (three Chrome boots
become one). The CLI skill, its correctness reference, the entry skill's
capability map, README/docs catalog rows, the Mintlify CLI page (new
check section, deprecation banner on inspect), template CLAUDE/AGENTS
(byte-identical), root CLAUDE/AGENTS, and every creation-workflow skill
that taught the old sequence all point at check. snapshot keeps its
standalone sections; validate/inspect stay documented as deprecated
aliases with their check equivalents.
snapshot --zoom <selector|x,y,w,h> + --zoom-scale (default 3) crops via
Puppeteer clip at raised deviceScaleFactor — density changes, layout
never does. Selector resolves per frame with 24px padding; no match is
a loud error, and a frame whose clamped region is a sliver (element
collapsed or animated off-canvas) is skipped with a stderr note rather
than written as a useless few-pixel image.
check --snapshots additionally writes finding-NN-<code>.png crops for
error findings with bboxes (cap 12, deterministic re-seek in a second
session) and draws labeled annotation boxes on overview frames via a
transient overlay injected only after audits complete. Skill reference
gains the zoom workflow: check reports a finding, zoom into it, fix,
re-check.
- SSOT: the three assemble-index.mjs BGM fallbacks now import
bgmDefaultVolume() from media-use's bgm.mjs instead of duplicating the
0.12/0.9 literals (both reviewers). The cross-skill relative import
matches the existing dependency (each workflow's audio.mjs adapter
already resolves ../../media-use/audio/scripts/audio.mjs).
- STATUS_ROLE_KEY: extended with info|neutral|alert|caution|critical —
same hue-carries-meaning class as the original set (all 3 copies).
- bgm.md: phrase the default as bgmDefaultVolume()/BGM_BED_VOLUME with
"currently 0.12" so the prose survives future tuning.
- fetch-pr.mjs: drop dead mergeCommit field from the gh pr view FIELDS
list (version resolution uses mergedAt only).
- music-to-video assemble-index.mjs: comment documenting why its BGM
stays at 0.8 under VO — music is the content there, not a narration
bed, so the explainer pipelines' 0.12 default deliberately does not
apply.
Not changed: pickAccent's chroma fallback — both call sites pass keyless
capture palettes (tokens.json hex lists), so no status-role keys exist
to filter on; the keyed preset path goes through semanticColors and the
build-frame remix, which this PR already fixed.
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Behavior fixes surfaced by the prompt-guide validation campaign (Tier 1+2
of the upstream bug list; Tier 3 tracked in #2107). Split out from the
doc-only updates, which follow in a separate PR.
- BGM level: default bed volume under narration was 0.8 linear (~-2 dB,
~16 dB too hot vs voice). Now 0.12 (~-18 dB) via shared
bgmDefaultVolume() in media-use bgm.mjs + assemble-index fallbacks in
faceless-explainer / pr-to-video / product-launch-video. Explicit
volume still wins; silent-film 0.9 and music-to-video unchanged.
Adds bgm.test.mjs (3 cases); bgm.md reference updated to match.
- Caption accent: semanticColors() ranked accents purely by chroma, so a
preserved status red (#dc2626) outranked the brand accent and captions
highlighted in error-red. Status-keyed colors now excluded via shared
STATUS_ROLE_KEY regex consumed by both tokens.mjs and build-frame.mjs
(all three skill copies kept in sync).
- Voice threading: workflow SKILL.md Step 3.1 blocks now instruct
choosing the narration voice from the user's ask and passing
--voice <id>; previously "a male voice" was silently ignored and the
default (Marcia/am_michael) always won.
- fetch-pr shipping version: MERGED PRs get best-effort shipped_version
+ version_source in pr.json (first release published at/after merge,
else default-branch package.json marked unreleased); ingest surfaces
it as a 'Shipped in:' brief line; story-design.md forbids inventing
versions when absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two real incidents this week had agents skip /figma entirely and drive
Figma via raw MCP tools (get_metadata/get_screenshot/get_design_context)
when a figma.com URL landed inside a creation-workflow skill. Root cause:
none of the creation workflows mention Figma at all, and the only routing
table that does (/hyperframes) is skipped whenever a workflow is invoked
directly rather than through the entry router — which is the common path.
Going raw loses real infrastructure the CLI/skill guarantees: sanitizeSvg()
before freezing (raw-fetched SVGs are unsanitized), .media/manifest.jsonl
provenance (no cache-hit, no version tracking), and brand-token var()
binding (colors bake as literals, so a later Figma brand change can't
propagate without a full re-import).
Added a "figma source" callout to every creation workflow that could
plausibly receive a figma.com link (product-launch-video, website-to-video,
general-video, motion-graphics, slideshow), plus a defense-in-depth line
in /hyperframes's own routing checklist. The fix lives in the workflows
themselves so it doesn't depend on the entry router being consulted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus <noreply@anthropic.com>
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