The flowchart and flowchart-vertical blocks read tl.labels["hold5"] back
from the timeline to schedule the "Pythom" -> "Python" typing correction.
The render compiler executes composition scripts under a GSAP proxy whose
timeline exposes no readable .labels map, so this line throws
("Composition script failed ... Cannot read properties of undefined
(reading 'hold5')") before window.__timelines is assigned. The block is
never registered: renders show only the dotted-grid background and every
render pays the 45s sub_timeline_readiness_timeout.
Use GSAP's own label-relative position syntax ("hold5+=<offset>") instead,
matching every other step in these files. Identical timing, no .labels read.
Verified with hyperframes@0.7.60 render: block was blank before, animates
after; the readiness timeout disappears.
* 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.
Running the CLI from source (tsx dev script, as CI's smoke job does)
transpiles with keepNames, which rewrites named inner functions in
serialized page closures into __name(...) calls — a helper that exists
in the Node bundle but not in the browser realm. The unified seek
closure was the first validate-path page function with named inner
functions, so 'hyperframes validate' threw '__name is not defined' in
CI while the dist build worked. Every session opener now installs a
no-op __name shim via evaluateOnNewDocument before any page script
runs, immunizing all serialized closures regardless of build mode.
Three filters keep the escalated contrast gate honest, each surfaced by
running check across the registry examples:
- data-layout-ignore (the layout audit's existing decorative opt-out)
now also excludes set-dressing text from the contrast audit — one
vocabulary for 'not copy a viewer must read'.
- Text that has (nearly) left the canvas is skipped: sampling a clamped
off-canvas box reads border pixels and produced the classic false
white-on-white (a cursor exiting the frame).
- Contrast failures follow the same persistence rule as layout findings:
observed at a single sample of a multi-sample sweep demotes to
warning; held failures gate.
Example fixes the sweep exposed: motion-blur's 21 deliberately-dim rail
labels are marked decorative (its vivid labels pass on their own);
nyt-graph's subtitle and source-note adopt the gate's suggested
compliant gray; decision-tree's declared duration drops 15s to 10s —
its content ends at ~9.5s and every render shipped a blank white tail.
The persistence-tier promotion surfaced two held content_overlap errors
on the hero heading; zooming in shows the collaborative-cursor demo
(cursor badge + typed comment bubble) hovering by design. Opt out with
data-layout-allow-overlap per the finding's own fixHint. The example's 4
pre-existing gsap_css_transform_conflict lint errors stay for a separate
example-maintenance pass.
* fix(examples): host the kinetic-type A-roll so the video actually renders
The A-roll <video> was authored inside the main-graphics sub-composition
template. The runtime only seeks and decodes media that is a direct child of
the host root, so the footage was never driven by the live runtime and renders
blank in Studio preview and the player (the producer's compile step happened to
hoist it, masking the contract violation in server renders). The example also
failed lint with eight errors.
Root cause and fixes:
- Move the <video> out of compositions/main-graphics.html and into index.html
as a direct child of #root, with data-start/data-duration/data-track-index
and class="clip". Its per-scene opacity reveal now runs on the main timeline
at global time, since a sub-composition timeline cannot reach host elements.
- Make the sub-composition a transparent overlay shell (background: transparent)
and stack it above the host video so the type renders over the footage.
- Drop the crossorigin attribute (plain displayed media never needs it) and mark
the audible footage with data-has-audio="true".
- Replace the three CSS translateY values that GSAP would overwrite with
fromTo tweens (carson-line-1, wes-text-top, wes-text-bottom).
- Swap the unbundled Libre Baskerville for the bundled Playfair Display serif so
the renderer can supply the Wes Anderson typography, and drop the redundant
-apple-system token from the body font stack.
lint reports 0 errors, validate passes, and frame extraction confirms the A-roll
composites correctly under every type scene.
* docs(examples): note the A-roll reveal-time coupling to the sub-composition
CI failures were two root causes (preview-regression was a cascade — its gate
mirrors preview-parity, which was skipped because the Preflight lint+format job
failed):
- Preflight (lint + format): the migrated registry comps (flowchart,
flowchart-vertical, liquid-glass-notification, vignette demo) were committed
unformatted — the lefthook format step only ran oxfmt on staged TS, not HTML,
so `oxfmt --check .` failed in CI. Ran oxfmt on all four. The vignette title's
per-glyph spans use oxfmt's `</span>`-split form, which keeps the glyphs
adjacent (no inter-element whitespace), so rendering is unchanged.
- Skills: manifest in sync: the pre-commit hook's manifest generator and CI's
canonical `gen-skills-manifest.ts` produced different content hashes for the
same skill; regenerated with the canonical generator so the committed manifest
matches what CI computes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fixHint and skill guidance told agents to "settle via scale" for
text-reflow props — but uniform scale resizes the glyphs, it does not change
the gaps between them, so swapping a letterSpacing tween for scale lints clean
while silently animating a different thing.
Make the guidance faithful per property:
- fontSize -> scale (same visual, sub-pixel smooth).
- letterSpacing / wordSpacing -> split the text into per-character elements and
animate each glyph's x (the spread); uniform scale is NOT equivalent. Or hold
the value statically if it's a minor flourish.
Add a "preserve the intent" principle to gsap-transforms-and-perf.md: a fix must
reproduce the same start/end state and trajectory and be verified against the
ORIGINAL render, not just pass lint — lint-clean-and-smooth is not the bar,
faithful-and-smooth is.
Redo the vignette demo title with the faithful per-glyph x spread (15.12px =
(0.32em-0.18em)*108px, centered about 8 chars). Render-verified: settled
endpoint matches the original at 46.5 dB, settle is smooth (24/24 unique frames).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extend the rule beyond positional layout props to the text-reflow props
letterSpacing / wordSpacing / fontSize. Animating them reflows text and snaps
glyph positions to the pixel grid, so a slow ease-out tail micro-stutters
exactly like left/top — measured on a real composition, a slow letterSpacing
"settle" rendered 19/30 unique frames vs 30/30 for the transform-driven
motion in the same piece. They have no transform replacement (fix: settle via
scale or hold the value), and the snap happens during browser layout, upstream
of the canvas raster, so they are never html-in-canvas-exempt. width/height
stay excluded (legit animated uses — progress bars, reveals).
Restructure the finding's message/fixHint to compose per category (positional
-> x/y; reflow -> scale/hold; roundProps -> remove) instead of a two-branch
ternary. Skill guidance (gsap-transforms-and-perf.md) broadened: "layout
property" includes reflow; letterSpacing/fontSize named as the settle-trap.
Migrate the one surfaced positive: registry/components/vignette/demo.html
title settle letterSpacing -> a subtle scale settle (render-verified 20/20
unique frames, smooth). Blast radius across the registry was this one comp,
zero false positives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Animating layout properties (left/right/top/bottom/margin*) or using
roundProps snaps motion to integer device pixels. Under the seek-by-frame
capture engine this is invisible at high per-frame deltas (fast tweens) but
visibly stutters at low deltas (slow tweens / ease-out tails): sub-pixel
movement rounds to the same pixel for several frames, then jumps a whole
pixel. Transforms (x/y/scale) interpolate sub-pixel and stay smooth.
New rule gsap_non_transform_motion (error):
- Sources timeline tweens from the acorn parser's full animation list, so
label- and relative-positioned tweens (tl.to(..., "label") / "+=1") are
covered and real AST keys avoid phantom-prop / nested-brace misreads.
- Exempts html-in-canvas elements (a <canvas layoutsubtree> ancestor): they
are rasterized from sub-pixel getComputedStyle and do not integer-snap.
Per-element resolution, so a grouped glass+text tween still flags the
plain-DOM half. roundProps is never exempt (it rounds before the style).
- Uses Object.hasOwn for the layout-prop lookup, skips set(), and merges
standalone gsap.* calls.
Migrated 9 registry compositions off layout-prop animation onto transforms,
each render-verified visually identical:
- liquid-glass-{notification,widgets,media-controls,context-menu}: plain-DOM
text overlays -> transforms; glass panels stay on left/top (canvas-exempt).
- vignelli: curtain wipes left:% -> xPercent.
- lt-mask-reveal: sweep left:% -> x px.
- flowchart, flowchart-vertical, decision-tree: cursor paths left/top -> x/y.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(core): register sub-composition timelines after async build + lint rule
When a composition builds its GSAP timeline inside document.fonts.ready (or any
async callback), registering window.__timelines[id] BEFORE the build leaves an
EMPTY timeline registered. The runtime's sub-composition readiness gate treats
"key present" as "ready" and nests the child once — an empty timeline gets
nested empty and is never re-nested, so the frame renders blank when used as a
sub-composition.
- registry/blocks/code-{diff,highlight,morph,scroll,typing}: register the
timeline AFTER the fonts.ready build completes, then call
window.__hfForceTimelineRebind() to re-nest now that it is populated.
- core lint: add rule gsap_timeline_registered_before_async_build to flag the
early-registration anti-pattern, with tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(studio): import commitGsapPositionFromDrag from its actual module
The function was split out into gsapDragPositionCommit.ts in #1605, but the
test kept importing it from ./gsapDragCommit, which no longer exports it —
yielding 'is not a function' at runtime. Import from the correct module.
Inherited main breakage (same fix as #1631/#1635); fixes the Test CI check on
this branch independently of merge order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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