Vance IngallsandGitHub fa05655a6a feat: add templates (#102)
## What

Adds 4 new composition templates and fixes structural issues across all templates.

### New templates
- **decision-tree** — animated flowchart with branching paths
- **kinetic-type** — bold kinetic typography promo
- **product-promo** — multi-scene product showcase with SVG assets (3 scenes)
- **nyt-graph** — animated data chart in NYT print editorial style

### Fixes across all templates
- GSAP updated from 3.12.2 → 3.14.2 (all templates, including warm-grain, swiss-grid, vignelli, play-mode)
- New templates restructured with proper root wrapper div, `data-duration`, sub-composition refs with `data-composition-id` / `data-width` / `data-height`
- nyt-chart: replaced `${compId}` template literal variables with hardcoded `"nyt-chart"` string — cheerio's css-what parser crashes on template literals during bundling, causing silent fallback to raw HTML without runtime injection
- nyt-chart: added DOM readiness retry for dynamically created SVG elements
- kinetic-type: removed external S3 audio URL
- All templates: GSAP script loaded in `<head>` before any scripts reference it

## Why

The new templates expand the range of content types available via `hyperframes init`. The fixes ensure all templates work correctly in the studio preview (bundler inlines sub-compositions and injects the runtime).

## Test plan

- [x] All 4 new templates render in studio preview
- [x] nyt-graph chart animates bars, line, and labels on playback
- [x] Existing templates unaffected (GSAP version bump is backwards compatible)
- [x] `hyperframes lint` passes on all templates
- [x] `generators.ts` updated with new template IDs
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Hyperframes

Node.js

Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

Hyperframes is an open-source video rendering framework that lets you create, preview, and render HTML-based video compositions — with first-class support for AI agents via MCP.

Why Hyperframes?

  • HTML-native — AI agents already speak HTML. No React required.
  • Frame Adapter pattern — bring your own animation runtime (GSAP, Lottie, CSS, Three.js).
  • Deterministic rendering — same input = identical output. Built for automated pipelines.
  • AI-first design — not a bolted-on afterthought.

Quick Start

npx hyperframes init my-video
cd my-video

Then open the project with your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) — it has HyperFrames skills installed and knows how to create and edit compositions.

npx hyperframes dev      # preview in browser (live reload)
npx hyperframes render   # render to MP4

Requirements: Node.js >= 22, FFmpeg

How It Works

Define your video as HTML with data attributes:

<div id="stage" data-composition-id="my-video" data-start="0" data-width="1920" data-height="1080">
  <video
    id="clip-1"
    data-start="0"
    data-duration="5"
    data-track="0"
    src="intro.mp4"
    muted
    playsinline
  ></video>
  <img id="overlay" data-start="2" data-duration="3" data-track="1" src="logo.png" />
  <audio
    id="bg-music"
    data-start="0"
    data-duration="9"
    data-track="2"
    data-volume="0.5"
    src="music.wav"
  ></audio>
</div>

Preview instantly in the browser. Render to MP4 locally. Let AI agents compose videos using tools they already understand.

Packages

Package Description
hyperframes CLI — create, preview, lint, and render compositions
@hyperframes/core Types, parsers, generators, linter, runtime, frame adapters
@hyperframes/engine Seekable page-to-video capture engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)
@hyperframes/producer Full rendering pipeline (capture + encode + audio mix)
@hyperframes/studio Browser-based composition editor UI

AI Agent Skills

HyperFrames ships skills that teach AI coding agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor) how to write correct compositions and GSAP animations. Use these instead of writing from scratch — they encode framework-specific patterns that generic docs don't cover.

# Install all skills (HyperFrames + GSAP) — runs automatically during `hyperframes init`
npx hyperframes skills

# Or install to a specific agent
npx hyperframes skills --claude
npx hyperframes skills --cursor

Or via npx skills add

# HyperFrames skills (compose-video, captions)
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

# GSAP skills (gsap-core, gsap-timeline, gsap-scrolltrigger, gsap-plugins, gsap-performance, gsap-utils, gsap-react, gsap-frameworks)
npx skills add greensock/gsap-skills

Installed Skills

Source Skills What they teach
HyperFrames compose-video, captions HTML composition structure, class="clip" rules, data-* attributes, timeline registration, rendering constraints
GSAP gsap-core, gsap-timeline, gsap-performance, gsap-plugins, gsap-scrolltrigger, gsap-utils, gsap-react, gsap-frameworks Core API, timeline sequencing, ScrollTrigger, plugin usage, performance best practices

In Claude Code, invoke with /compose-video, /captions, /gsap-core, etc.

Documentation

Full docs at hyperframes.heygen.com — includes guides, concepts, API reference, and package documentation.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute.

License

See LICENSE for details.

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