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title: "Install and update agent skills"
sidebarTitle: "Agent skills"
description: "Teach a coding agent how to create valid HyperFrames projects and load specialized workflows when needed."
---

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HyperFrames skills teach coding agents the project format, animation rules, media workflow, validation loop, and creation workflows that generic web knowledge does not cover.

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The terminal output is a real run of the command. Afterwards the router reads a
request and chooses the workflow for it, instead of the agent guessing at the
framework's rules.

## Install for a person

Run the interactive installer:

```bash
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --full-depth
```

Select **Core Skills**. The `/hyperframes` router installs a specialized creation workflow when the request needs one, so you do not need the full catalog up front.

Start a fresh agent chat after installation, then ask it to use `/hyperframes`.

## Install or refresh from an agent

For a non-interactive agent or CI environment, use:

```bash
npx hyperframes skills update
```

This installs or refreshes the core set and any HyperFrames skills already present in the global install, then links those bundles into compatible installed agents. It does not add every optional workflow.

Check freshness without changing anything:

```bash
npx hyperframes skills check
```

Install or refresh one workflow explicitly:

```bash
npx hyperframes skills update pr-to-video
```

## Use the skills in Google Antigravity

Install the skills from the root of the project you open in Antigravity:

```bash
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --full-depth
```

Select **Core Skills** and **Antigravity**. This uses Antigravity's supported
project location, `.agents/skills`, and keeps the skills with the project. Start
a fresh Antigravity conversation after installation.

Antigravity also supports a global `~/.gemini/config/skills` directory. See
Google's [current skills guide](https://antigravity.google/docs/skills?app=antigravity-ide)
before managing that directory by hand.

## Use the skills in GitHub Copilot CLI

Run `npx hyperframes skills update`, open the project, and start Copilot:

```bash
copilot
```

If Copilot was already running, use `/skills reload`. Use `/skills list` or
`/skills info hyperframes` to confirm discovery. GitHub's [current skills
guide](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-skills)
lists its project and personal skill locations.

Both agents can use the same first request:

```text
Using /hyperframes, make a 10-second product intro for https://example.com.
```

Continue in the same conversation for revisions. For hosted creation instead
of a local project, use the [HyperFrames MCP guide](/guides/mcp).

## Let the router choose

The normal entry point is `/hyperframes`. It confirms the important intent, then selects a workflow from the input:

| You provide | Workflow |
| --- | --- |
| A product website or product brief | Product launch video |
| A topic or script with no website capture | Faceless explainer |
| A GitHub pull request | PR-to-video |
| Existing talking-head footage | Captions or a designed recut |
| A music track | Music-driven video |
| A short design-led animation | Motion graphic |
| A presentation | Slideshow |
| A Figma file or frame | Figma import with assets, brand tokens, components, and reconstructed motion |
| Anything outside those shapes | General video |

You can invoke a workflow directly when you already know it is the right one, but you do not need to memorize the names to start.

## Install more only when you need it

Install the complete set deliberately with:

```bash
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --all --full-depth
```

Or install one named skill:

```bash
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes-animation --full-depth
```

Use the full set for an environment that must work across many HyperFrames tasks without fetching later. For a normal project, the core set is smaller and easier to keep current.

## If the agent cannot see a skill

1. Start a new agent session.
2. Confirm that the project or global skill directory belongs to the agent you are using.
3. Run `npx hyperframes skills check`.
4. Run `npx hyperframes skills update` when the check reports a missing or stale core skill.

The individual skill definitions remain the source of truth for agents and are
available in the [HyperFrames repository](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/tree/main/skills).

## Related topics

- [Make your first video](/quickstart)
- [Choose a specific creation workflow](/workflows)
- [Use authentication and hosted services](/guides/authentication)
