* feat(cli): add skills version check, update, and freshness manifest
Give the HyperFrames skill bundle a content fingerprint so agents and
users can tell whether installed skills are the latest version, on any
platform that can run the CLI.
- skills-manifest.json (repo root): per-skill sha256 over the whole skill
directory; minimal {source, skills}, no version/timestamp so it is fully
deterministic. Generated by scripts/gen-skills-manifest.ts.
- `hyperframes skills check` [--json]: compares installed skills to the
manifest; exits non-zero when something is outdated (agent/CI gate).
- `hyperframes skills update`: thin wrapper over `npx skills update`.
- Passive nudge on render/lint/validate when skills are stale (24h cache,
same opt-out as the CLI self-update notice).
- "latest" resolved via `git ls-remote` + SHA-pinned raw URL to dodge
GitHub raw-CDN lag, falling back to the main branch URL.
- CI job + lefthook hook keep skills-manifest.json in sync with skills/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): add execFile to child_process mock in skills test
skills.test.ts mocks node:child_process but only declared execFileSync
and spawn. Loading skills.js transitively loads skillsManifest.ts, which
runs promisify(execFile) at module load, so vitest threw on the missing
execFile named export. Add a bare stub — these tests never invoke it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): init installs all skills; skills update pulls the full set
Make `hyperframes init` the single place skills are pulled in full, and
make "update" mean "get everything" rather than "refresh what's there".
- init now always installs/refreshes ALL skills (incl. ones not yet
present) instead of prompting "Install AI coding skills?" — opt out
with `init --skip-skills`. Both the interactive and non-interactive
paths pass `--all --yes` so the complete set is fetched.
- `hyperframes skills update` switches from `npx skills update` (which
only refreshes already-installed skills) to `skills add --all`, so it
installs missing skills too — the same install step init runs.
- SKILL.md documents init-installs-all and the new update semantics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): skills check treats missing skills as needing an update
The full skill set is now the goal (init and `skills update` both pull
all, including ones not installed), so a partial install is no longer
"a choice" — it's something to fix.
- diffSkills: updateAvailable is now true when anything is outdated OR
missing (local-only still doesn't count). So `skills check` exits
non-zero — and renders "Update:" instead of "up to date" — whenever a
skill is missing, not just when one is stale.
- The passive render/lint/validate nudge follows suit: it now counts
missing alongside outdated ("N skills out of date or missing"),
tracked via a new skillsMissingCount cache field.
- SKILL.md documents the stricter check.
Note: platforms that intentionally vendor only a subset of skills (e.g.
a Codex snapshot) will now see check report non-zero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): install/update skills straight from the GitHub repo
`skills add owner/repo` can resolve through the skills.sh registry, which
lags behind the repo — so `update` could install a stale version while
`check` (which resolves latest directly from GitHub) keeps reporting
"outdated", an endless loop.
Switch the install source to the full GitHub URL
(https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes), which makes `skills add`
git-clone the repo directly at latest main, bypassing the registry. This
covers `hyperframes skills`, `hyperframes skills update`, and `init`'s
skill install — all of which go through SOURCES. Now install/update and
check agree on what "latest" means.
The init "install skills" hint now points at `npx hyperframes skills
update` so the manual path uses the same GitHub-direct fetch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): init checks skills against GitHub, installs only when stale
`hyperframes init` now runs the skills version check first and only
(re)installs when something is outdated or missing — instead of
unconditionally re-pulling every time. Re-running init on an
already-current project is now a no-op ("skills are already up to date").
- New ensureSkillsCurrent() helper, shared by both the interactive and
non-interactive init paths (no duplicated install logic).
- The check resolves "latest" straight from GitHub (same source the
install uses); best-effort — if it can't reach GitHub it installs anyway.
- SKILL.md updated to describe the check-then-install behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(cli): address skills manifest review feedback
From the PR review (points 1, 2, 4, 5):
1. Remove the `local-only` skill status. checkSkills only ever hashes
manifest-listed skills, so a local-only status could never appear in
the end-to-end output — and making it appear would wrongly flag
unrelated skills (the `.../skills` dir is shared across sources).
diffSkills now reports only on manifest skills; skills on disk that
aren't in the manifest are ignored.
2. Drop the redundant per-directory sort in listFilesSorted — the single
final out.sort() is what guarantees a deterministic hash (verified:
manifest unchanged).
4. resolveLatestManifest local-path detection now uses path.isAbsolute,
so Windows absolute paths (C:\...) are treated as local instead of
falling through to a remote fetch.
5. fetchManifest validates the response shape (asSkillsManifest) instead
of a blind `as` cast, so a CDN error page served as 200 fails with a
clear error rather than a cryptic crash later in diffSkills.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): strict skills update + auto-discover any agent host
Address PR review (Magi blocker + James/Rames robustness):
- Blocker (Magi): `skills update` is the documented recovery path for
`skills check || skills update`, but it delegated to installAllSkills()
which swallowed missing-npx and failed `skills add` as "skipped",
exiting 0 even when nothing changed. Add a strict mode that throws on
failure; update sets a non-zero exit (init stays best-effort). New tests
simulate a non-zero `skills add` (exit 1) and the success path.
- Robustness (James/Rames #2): the upstream `skills` CLI installs into
~72 agent conventions; a hard-coded list (4, or even 11) can't track
that. Replace defaultSkillRoots with discoverSkillRoots — it scans cwd +
$HOME for any `<host>/skills/<manifest-skill>/SKILL.md` (plus the XDG
`.config/<host>/skills`), so detection is structural and future-proof,
no closed list. agentFromDir infers the host from the path.
- Tests (Rames #3): temp-fixture detection tests for every convention ×
{project, global}, scope priority, claude-code preference, the
no-install case, the --dir override, and an unknown/new host (proving
the no-closed-list property).
- Docs (Rames #4/#5): SKILL.md notes init's best-effort GitHub round-trip;
findRepoManifest climbs 16 levels (was 8) for deep monorepos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): resolve CodeQL file-system race + de-flake Windows npx test
Two CI fixes:
- CodeQL (high, js/file-system-race) at gen-skills-manifest.ts: the
existsSync(outPath) precheck followed by writeFileSync(outPath) is a
check-then-write race. Read the committed manifest directly in a
try/catch instead (missing/unreadable ⇒ "no committed manifest"), so
there's no precheck to race against. Behavior is unchanged.
- Windows Tests: npxCommand.test.ts's real `npx --version` smoke test
cold-starts slower than vitest's 5s default on Windows runners and
timed out. Give the test 60s headroom (and a 30s exec timeout). Kept
as a real execution check — mocking would reduce it to a tautology.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): repair garbled npx smoke-test timeout comment
The explanatory comment for the 60s timeout was scrambled across the
callback/timeout arguments, failing oxfmt --check (and thus preflight,
which in turn skipped preview-parity and failed the regression gate).
Move it above the it() call so it no longer sits between call arguments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (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:
npx hyperframes render ./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