Closes both cross-surface findings with one mechanism. The CLI publishes
window.__HF_CLI_CANARY_DECISIONS ({ name: boolean }); a CLI-launched
Studio takes it as authoritative over its own seed, URL override and the
registry percentage.
Studio re-deriving could not agree with the CLI in three cases:
- Telemetry off. The CLI resolves telemetry_opt_out, but Studio's
opt-out is a separate localStorage flag it cannot see, so it would
evaluate normally and could enrol on a render the CLI excluded. The
previous commit gated each surface independently; that fixed silent
enrolment per surface but NOT the disagreement between them.
- HF_CANARY_* override. Env vars never cross into the browser — Studio
reads only its URL param / sessionStorage — so a support session
forcing a canary on got the CLI forced and Studio guessing.
- No seed injected. Studio falls back to a different unit id, i.e. a
different bucket.
Shipping the decision instead of the inputs makes divergence structurally
impossible: one evaluation, two surfaces. It also exposes strictly less —
booleans about features, rather than the seed buckets derive from — which
is why it is safe to publish with telemetry off, the case it exists for.
Studio still evaluates locally when standalone, or for a canary the CLI
did not publish, and ignores a non-boolean value rather than trusting it.
Tests: 6 Studio (CLI-off wins over unset local flag, CLI-on with no URL
param, beats contradicting override, beats seed, falls back per-canary,
rejects non-boolean) and 4 CLI (decisions with telemetry off and no
identity, alongside identity when on, script-tag escaping on a hostile
canary name, throwing resolver degrades to identity only). Four existing
identity tests asserted the old "nothing when telemetry off" contract and
were updated; the registry is now mocked there so string assertions don't
move when a canary is added or ramped. Fault injection: dropping the
adoption fails 4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
hyperframes
CLI for creating, previewing, and rendering HTML video compositions.
Install
npm install -g hyperframes
Or use directly with npx:
npx hyperframes <command>
Requirements: Node.js >= 22, FFmpeg
Commands
init
Scaffold a new Hyperframes project from a template:
npx hyperframes init my-video
cd my-video
preview
Start the live preview studio in your browser:
npx hyperframes preview
# Studio running at http://localhost:3002
npx hyperframes preview --port 4567
render
Render a composition to MP4. Run from the project directory; the positional
argument is the project directory (not a file), so render the project's
index.html directly, or point at a specific composition file with -c:
npx hyperframes render -o output.mp4
npx hyperframes render -c ./my-composition.html -o output.mp4
lint
Validate your Hyperframes HTML:
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition --json # JSON output for CI/tooling
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition --verbose # Include info-level findings
By default only errors and warnings are shown. Use --verbose to also display informational findings (e.g., external script dependency notices). Use --json for machine-readable output with errorCount, warningCount, infoCount, and a findings array.
compositions
List compositions found in the current project:
npx hyperframes compositions
benchmark
Run rendering benchmarks:
npx hyperframes benchmark ./my-composition.html
doctor
Check your environment for required dependencies (Chrome, FFmpeg, Node.js):
npx hyperframes doctor
browser
Manage the bundled Chrome/Chromium installation:
npx hyperframes browser
info
Print version and environment info:
npx hyperframes info
docs
Open the documentation in your browser:
npx hyperframes docs
upgrade
Check for updates and show upgrade instructions:
npx hyperframes upgrade
npx hyperframes upgrade --check --json # machine-readable for agents
Documentation
Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/cli
Related packages
@hyperframes/core— types, parsers, frame adapters@hyperframes/engine— rendering engine@hyperframes/producer— render pipeline@hyperframes/studio— composition editor UI