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The HyperFrames CLI by job - scaffold, check, look at frames, edit the timeline, preview, render locally or in the cloud, publish, project history - plus reading its JSON and recovering from build or render failures.

Read first to make, edit, animate or render any video with HyperFrames (HTML rendered to video), including launch films, explainers, music videos, charts, maps, vertical clips, title cards, captions and overlays. Holds the render contract, the work loop and…

Get or make any media for a HyperFrames video - music, sound effects, images, icons, logos, voiceover, avatar and generated video, transcripts, cutouts, colour grades and looks - with HeyGen or free local tools, and mix placed audio. Also for footage that…

Rebuild any video file as an editable HyperFrames project - motion graphics, talking heads, live action or AI-generated footage. Measure and watch it, rebuild every layer, then check the render against the original frame by frame. Use to reverse, recreate,…

Bring existing video code or footage into HyperFrames and verify it frame by frame against the original - Remotion first, also Motion Canvas, Lottie, Three.js, p5.js, canvas or plain HTML/CSS animation, or renders from Manim, After Effects or Blender. Use to…

About 450 ready-made HyperFrames blocks and components installed as editable source - transitions, overlays, titles, kinetic type, captions, charts, map overlays, 3D, camera moves. Use it before hand-building any named visual (CRT scanlines, glitch, film…

An orbiting camera follows an ice logo as it breaks apart, reforms into two text moments, and fades. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 22.5s, 216 variables.

Overlay doctrine for captions in HyperFrames videos — the caption MODEL (drop / rail / embed) and the rule that captions are an OVERLAY composited on top of the film, never a reserved bottom band you shift content up to avoid. Load when adding…

A 60 to 75 s hand-drawn ink film of the agent's day with its own user ("a day in my life as <name>'s agent"): one average session from the user's local Claude Code history, beginning to end. The story follows what they actually do (coding, tests, docs,…

Use when an agent needs to make a HyperFrames video of a Strudel live-coding track, where the code itself is the picture and every token lights up on the note it plays. Trigger on: "strudel video", "live coding video", "show my code playing", "make a video of…

An agent makes an animated film of an average session with its own user, beginning to end, told with that user's real messages: whatever their routine is (code, writing, data, design, video). The agent sits at a desk in a room decorated from what it knows…

Captions living in 3D space around a talking head: a camera flies between the speaker and the words (whip-in, parallax truck, push), caption groups sit at different depths so camera moves pull them apart, hero words hide BEHIND the speaker through an alpha…

Composite any two HTML screens into a locked photo plate of hands holding an open foldable phone — a 1448×1086 still with two blank 495×849 / 498×849 screen slots (left and right) — to make side-by-side meme and comparison videos: TikTok vs Reels, ChatGPT vs…

Turn any X (Twitter) profile into a 10.3s animated "POSTING LICENSE" card video — a fake driver's license in X's branding: the card slides in over an animated dot-matrix ground, license text types on letter-by-letter, follower / following / post counters tick…

Create a 60–90 second, collage-style HyperFrames explainer from a hiding-in-plain-sight topic or supplied documents and links. Use for requests such as 'make a plain-sight explainer', 'Vox-style history of X', 'why is X everywhere?', or 'turn this document…

Turn a text prompt, a photo, or a live video clip into hand-made-looking p5.js animation — pencil handwriting that writes itself, photos repainted as brushstroke art with paint-on animation and camera moves, and short videos (iPhone Live Photos included)…

Render the staged composition and return the playable video. Picks between HeyGen cloud render (default) and local in-sandbox render at runtime. Use as the final step, after customize-composition.

Validate the generated content against the composition's real variable schema and stage it for rendering. Use after generate-script and before render-and-return.

Decide the actual content (headline copy, feature lines, colors, etc.) for the chosen composition's variables. Use after pick-composition and before customize-composition.

Synthesize a spoken voiceover for the video from the narration script via HeyGen TTS. Use after generate-script and before customize-composition. Runs by default for every video unless the user asked for no narration.

Choose the best starter composition for the user's request. Use this first, at the start of every new video request, before generating any content.

Create AI videos, manage avatars, translate videos, and download results via the HeyGen API. Use when an agent needs to generate videos from text prompts, create avatar-based videos, translate existing videos, or automate video production workflows.

Cut a stable (or dev) release of the heygen CLI end to end: run RELEASE.md's pre-release checklist, land pending PRs, check the command surface, run E2E, pick the version, write the changelog, trigger the release workflow, publish the notes, and verify the…

Generate a user-facing changelog for the next stable release. Reads git log between the last stable tag and HEAD, categorizes changes, and outputs formatted release notes. Use before triggering a stable release. Takes the version as an optional argument (for…

End-to-end test of the heygen CLI against the live API. Builds the binary, then exercises auth, list, get, --human, schema, error handling, and the full create-poll-download-delete write path. Spends a small number of API credits per run. Use before cutting a…

Spin up a working LiveAvatar demo from a curated catalog — clones the reference repo, installs dependencies, provisions the LiveAvatar account, and fills the env file, then hands off the parts only a human can do. Use when: (1) User wants to try, test, see,…

Build a LiveAvatar integration end-to-end — assesses the user's existing stack, recommends the optimal path, and guides implementation. Use when: (1) Building a new LiveAvatar integration, (2) Adding a real-time avatar to an app or site, (3) Connecting…

Collect and submit developer feedback to the LiveAvatar team. Use when: (1) A LiveAvatar integration is done, working, finished, or complete, (2) The user says "it works", "we're done", "that's it", "ship it", (3) The user is frustrated, stuck, or giving up —…

Troubleshoot and debug LiveAvatar integration issues. Use when the user's LiveAvatar integration isn't working, the avatar is silent, audio is garbled, sessions fail to start, events aren't received, or they're getting API errors.

Create a persistent HeyGen avatar — a reusable face + voice identity for the agent, the user, or any named character — powered by HeyGen Avatar V technology. Prompt-based creation by default (description → HeyGen builds it); photo upload is optional for…

Translate and dub a video into another language with voice cloning and lip-sync, powered by HeyGen Video Translation. The presenter keeps their face, their voice is cloned into the target language, and lips re-sync to the new audio — viewers see the same…

Generate HeyGen presenter videos via the v3 Video Agent pipeline — handles Frame Check (aspect ratio correction), prompt engineering, avatar resolution, and voice selection. Required for any HeyGen video generation. Replaces deprecated endpoints with v3. Use…

Create HeyGen avatar videos via the v3 Video Agent pipeline — handles avatar resolution, aspect ratio correction, prompt engineering, and voice selection automatically. Required for any HeyGen API usage (api.heygen.com). Replaces deprecated v1/v2 endpoints…

Generate HeyGen presenter videos via the v3 Video Agent pipeline — handles Frame Check (aspect ratio correction), prompt engineering, avatar resolution, and voice selection. Required for any HeyGen video generation. Replaces deprecated endpoints with v3. Use…

Create a persistent HeyGen avatar that looks and sounds like a specific person — the user, the agent, or any named character — powered by HeyGen Avatar V technology. Upload a photo → HeyGen builds a digital twin → reuse across unlimited videos. Use when: (1)…

Official HeyGen plugin for OpenClaw — adds HeyGen as a first-class provider for the built-in video_generate tool. Identity-first avatar videos: pick an avatar_id, a voice, a script, and get an on-brand presenter video back. Use when: (1) generating a video…

Build a LiveAvatar integration end-to-end — assesses the user's existing stack, recommends the optimal path, and guides implementation. Use when: (1) Building a new LiveAvatar integration, (2) Adding a real-time avatar to an app or site, (3) Connecting…