hyperframes

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.

Quick Start

Option 1: With an AI coding agent (recommended)

Install the HyperFrames skills, then describe the video you want:

npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

This teaches your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex) how to write correct compositions and GSAP animations. In Claude Code, the skills register as slash commands — invoke /hyperframes to author compositions, /hyperframes-cli for CLI commands, and /gsap for animation help.

For Claude Design, open docs/guides/claude-design-hyperframes.md on GitHub and click the download button (↓) to save it, then attach the file to your Claude Design chat. It produces a valid first draft; refine in any AI coding agent. See the Claude Design guide.

For Codex specifically, the same skills are also exposed as an OpenAI Codex plugin — sparse-install just the plugin surface:

codex plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes --sparse .codex-plugin --sparse skills --sparse assets

For Claude Code, the repo also ships a Claude Code plugin manifest: test it locally with claude --plugin-dir .. The manifest intentionally omits skills because Claude Code auto-discovers the root skills/ directory by convention, and for marketplace submission use the title HyperFrames by HeyGen plus the black/white icon assets at assets/claude-code-icon-dark.svg and assets/claude-code-icon-light.svg for the two theme slots. For Cursor, the same skills are packaged as a Cursor plugin — install from the Cursor Marketplace, or sideload by cloning this repo and pointing Settings → Plugins → Load unpacked at the repo root.

Try it: example prompts

Copy any of these into your agent to get started. The /hyperframes prefix loads the skill context explicitly so you get correct output the first time.

Cold start — describe what you want:

Using /hyperframes, create a 10-second product intro with a fade-in title, a background video, and background music.

Warm start — turn existing context into a video:

Take a look at this GitHub repo https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes and explain its uses and architecture to me using /hyperframes.

Summarize the attached PDF into a 45-second pitch video using /hyperframes.

Turn this CSV into an animated bar chart race using /hyperframes.

Format-specific:

Make a 9:16 TikTok-style hook video about [topic] using /hyperframes, with bouncy captions synced to a TTS narration.

Iterate — talk to the agent like a video editor:

Make the title 2x bigger, swap to dark mode, and add a fade-out at the end.

Add a lower third at 0:03 with my name and title.

The agent handles scaffolding, animation, and rendering. See the prompting guide for more patterns.

Option 2: Start a project manually

npx hyperframes init my-video
cd my-video
npx hyperframes preview      # preview in browser (live reload)
npx hyperframes render       # render to MP4

hyperframes init installs skills automatically, so you can hand off to your AI agent at any point.

Requirements: Node.js >= 22, FFmpeg

Why Hyperframes?