--- title: "HyperFrames by HeyGen" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "2" url: "https://mindket.com/p/8fa50752-fe18-4cfe-9b49-f3a3337bf7af" updated: "2026-11-09" health: "Active" --- # HyperFrames by HeyGen > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. HeyGen’s open-source framework that turns HTML into MP4 video. Its skills teach Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents to plan, build, preview and render a video project on your own computer. HyperFrames by HeyGen is an open-source project on GitHub in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 2, last updated on 2026-11-09. Install it from GitHub as its README says. Get Mindket’s setup notes on your Mindket account, as a zip. Made by heygen-com ## About ### What it is HyperFrames is HeyGen’s open-source framework for turning HTML, CSS, media and seekable animations into MP4 video. You ask a coding agent for a video, and the HyperFrames skills teach it how to plan the film, write a valid project, preview it and render it. The README says the renderer seeks each frame in headless Chrome and encodes the result with FFmpeg, so the same input gives the same video. It also says HyperFrames is used in production at HeyGen. You ask your agent for a video → The skill picks the kind of film and reads its references → The agent writes timed HTML scenes and a paused timeline → lint and check run, then you review the preview → After approval, it seeks each frame in headless Chrome → FFmpeg encodes the frames and the audio mix into an MP4 ### Who it suits Product teams, developers, marketers and creators who want a finished video from a prompt and still want the files. The result is a project folder of plain HTML, so an agent, the browser editor and your own tools can all keep editing the same files. HeyGen’s docs say you need no code on the agent path. Who uses it, and how | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Software and SaaS | Product marketers and developers | Make launch videos and feature announcements, with the product’s own page captured as raw material | A developer asks for a 10-second intro from the product’s URL, and the agent builds it from the captured screens and fonts. | | Engineering teams | Maintainers | Turn a pull request into a walkthrough with animated code diffs, narration and captions | A maintainer asks for a short walkthrough of a pull request before the review call. | | Data and news | Analysts and designers | Build chart races, data visualizations and map animations | An analyst asks for a bar chart race from a sheet of yearly totals. | | Social and content | Creators and small brands | Add kinetic captions, overlays and music to footage | A creator hands over an interview clip and asks for word-timed captions. | | Automated pipelines | Teams that need many versions of one layout | Declare variables in a composition and render each version with new values | A team renders one intro with a new title for each customer. | Skip it if all you need is a quick trim or one caption pass on a clip. An ordinary video editor gets there faster than a project, a check and a render. ### Where to use it HeyGen documents a route for each of these agents and apps. - Claude Code: the plugin, called with /hyperframes:hyperframes - GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code: the same GitHub marketplace - Gemini CLI: an extension installed from the repository - Cursor: standalone skills, a team marketplace or a local plugin folder - Codex: skills in the shared \~/.agents/skills folder, called with $hyperframes - OpenCode, Google Antigravity and IBM Bob: standalone skills - No agent of your own: the Studio app for Mac, Windows and Linux, or a hosted connector in Claude.ai, ChatGPT or Grok The README says HyperFrames ships 8 skills: a core set of four, and four that install on demand. The eight skills | Skill | Group | Use it when | | --- | --- | --- | | /hyperframes | Core | You want a video, motion graphic, caption or overlay made, edited or rendered. It is read first | | /hyperframes-cli | Core | The agent scaffolds, checks, previews and renders from the CLI | | /hyperframes-registry | Core | A named visual may exist already, among about 450 ready-made blocks | | /media-use | Core | The video needs music, sound effects, images, logos, voiceover or an avatar clip | | /figma | On demand | You paste a figma.com link | | /slideshow | On demand | You want a navigable deck, not an MP4 | | /remotion-to-hyperframes | On demand | Existing video code or footage has to come over | | /reverse-any-video | On demand | A video file should become an editable project. The README’s line for it ends with “HyperFrames Pro” | ### How to set it up Get it saves a zip of Mindket’s setup notes in your downloads folder, with each agent’s steps from HeyGen’s README and docs. Install the tools below first, then add the skills by one route per agent. What you need first | Need | Detail | | --- | --- | | Node.js | 22 or later, with npm. The skills installer behind npx skills lists 22.20 or later on npm | | FFmpeg | Needed to render MP4 files. Run npx hyperframes doctor to check it | | Chrome | Rendering drives headless Chrome. npx hyperframes browser ensure finds one or downloads it | | A coding agent | One from the list above. The Studio app can install one for you | | A HeyGen account | Optional. A free sign-in gives you HeyGen’s Voice Turbo voice, its music catalog and asset search. Other HeyGen voices, avatars and generated clips cost credits. The Studio app requires an account | | Python | Optional, for the local Kokoro voice. Its PyPI entry lists 3.10 to 3.13 | | Docker | Optional, for npx hyperframes render --docker | 1. Install Node.js 22 or later and FFmpeg, then run npx hyperframes doctor. 2. Add the skills by one route for your agent. Claude Code takes the plugin, and most others take the installer. 3. Start a new agent session in your video project’s folder. 4. Ask for a video and name the skill: /hyperframes:hyperframes in Claude Code, /hyperframes in most others, $hyperframes in Codex. In Claude Code, install the plugin: ```sh claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes ``` Most other agents use the installer, run in your project folder. The picker opens with nothing selected, and Core Skills is the group to tick. An agent or CI run with no picker uses the second line instead. ```sh npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes ``` ```sh npx hyperframes skills update ``` Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor and the rest have their own lines in the kit’s notes. HeyGen’s docs say to choose one install method per agent. ### How to use it Ask for the video in plain words and name the skill. The agent writes the project in your folder, checks it and opens a preview. It stops there. Rendering starts after you approve, or when you ask for the file. A film over about 15 seconds that tells something begins differently: the agent first offers three storylines, written in words only, and you pick one. ```sh npx hyperframes preview npx hyperframes render --output final.mp4 ``` The first line reopens the project in the browser editor later, and the second makes the MP4. Say the quality in words and the agent sets the flags. The words that steer a render | Say | You get | | --- | --- | | draft, or quick render | The draft tier, a fast encode for judging the cut | | nothing | The looks tier, the default, which HeyGen’s docs call visually lossless at 1080p | | final, or high quality | The delivery tier, for the master you hand off | | transparent WebM | VP9 with alpha, which only browsers decode. Video editors show the clear areas as black | ### Example In an empty folder, with the plugin installed, you ask your agent for a first video. ```text Using /hyperframes:hyperframes, make a 10-second product intro for https://example.com. ``` The agent reads the guide for a launch film, builds the project in your folder and runs its checks. It opens the preview and waits. You get a folder with an index.html root composition, one scene file per scene under compositions/ and your media in assets/. A new video is 1920×1080 at 30 fps unless you say otherwise. After you approve the preview, one command makes the file. ```sh npx hyperframes render --output final.mp4 ``` ### For newcomers and experts **If you are new.** Think of a video here as a web page with a clock. Each element says when it appears, and the renderer captures the page at every tick of that clock before FFmpeg joins the frames into a video. You never have to read the HTML. Describe the video, watch the preview and say what to change in the same conversation. If a terminal is not for you, HeyGen’s Studio app puts the chat, preview and editor in one window and installs an agent for you. **For experts.** A composition is HTML with data attributes for timing and tracks. Animation comes from GSAP, CSS, Lottie, Three.js, Anime.js, WAAPI or your own frame adapter. The skill’s contract bans Date.now(), unseeded Math.random(), network fetches and timers inside a composition, because every frame has to be a function of timeline time. Where a render can run | Path | Who operates Chrome and FFmpeg | | --- | --- | | Local CLI | Your computer | | npx hyperframes render --docker | Docker on your computer | | HyperFrames Cloud | HeyGen, billed in credits to your HeyGen account | | AWS Lambda | Your AWS account | | Google Cloud Run | Your Google Cloud account | A plugin pins the CLI version in its manifest but not the skill commit. For a repeatable install, HeyGen’s docs say to keep a release tag and turn automatic updates off. ### Good to know For local work the project stays on your machine. What reaches out is the CLI’s usage data, the optional HeyGen pieces and your agent’s provider. - Usage data: the CLI sends command names, render performance, error names and system info, including the name of a coding agent it detects. It stays anonymous until you sign in to HeyGen, then it is linked to your account. npx hyperframes telemetry disable or HYPERFRAMES\_NO\_TELEMETRY=1 turns it off - Installer data: the skills installer sends anonymous usage data unless DISABLE\_TELEMETRY=1 or DO\_NOT\_TRACK=1 is set - Sign-in: the media skill asks you to sign in to HeyGen before it uses HeyGen voices, music or asset search, and uses local tools only when you ask - Cost: the docs call the framework and local rendering free. Your agent bills its own plan, and HeyGen voices beyond Voice Turbo, avatars, generated clips and cloud renders use HeyGen credits - Cloud rendering: it uploads the project to HeyGen, and media of 5 MB or more is referenced by public, unsigned URL. hyperframes cloud render --dry-run shows what will upload - Publishing: npx hyperframes publish uploads the project to hyperframes.studio and works signed out, through a claim link - Website capture: it fetches public pages from your machine. With GEMINI\_API\_KEY or OPENROUTER\_API\_KEY set, the captured images also go to that provider to be described, and --skip-vision turns that off - Render tags: each file carries two metadata tags, hyperframes\_renderer and hyperframes\_version, and nothing about your paths or project - Disk and Windows: a long multi-worker render on macOS or Windows can need tens of GB of temporary frames. Under WSL2, Chrome may fall back to slower software rendering - Removal: claude plugin uninstall hyperframes@hyperframes, copilot plugin uninstall hyperframes or gemini extensions uninstall hyperframes. For standalone skills the docs only point to your skill manager - License: Apache-2.0, copyright HeyGen, Inc. The README says there are no per-render fees. Media you add keeps its own license ## README ````markdown # HyperFrames by HeyGen: setup notes This kit holds setup notes only. Mindket wrote them. HyperFrames and its agent skills install from HeyGen's repository: https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes These notes are not made or endorsed by HeyGen. The repository's README names HeyGen as the maker, and the plugin manifests name HeyGen as the author. License: Apache-2.0. The LICENSE file reads "Copyright 2026 HeyGen, Inc." Source: https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/blob/main/LICENSE The FAQ says media you add to a video, such as fonts, music or footage, keeps its own license. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/faq ## What installs - Skills: the README says HyperFrames ships 8 skills. The core set is `/hyperframes`, `/hyperframes-cli`, `/hyperframes-registry` and `/media-use`. `/figma`, `/slideshow`, `/remotion-to-hyperframes` and `/reverse-any-video` install on demand. The README’s line for `/reverse-any-video` ends with “HyperFrames Pro.” - A plugin bundles the full skill catalog and takes its updates from your agent's plugin manager. Standalone skills are the other route. - The skills run the HyperFrames CLI, the npm package `hyperframes`, as `npx hyperframes `. Inside a plugin, a bundled launcher runs the CLI version the plugin's manifest names, and its first call may download that exact version through npm. Source: https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/blob/main/skills/hyperframes/references/plugin-installation.md - Where standalone skills land, per HeyGen's docs: `~/.agents/skills` for a user-level Codex install, `~/.cursor/skills` for Cursor, `~/.bob/skills` for IBM Bob, and `.agents/skills` in the project for a project install. - After a sign-in, credentials are kept in `~/.hyperframes/credentials`. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/authentication ## What you need first - Node.js 22 or later and npm, per the README. The npm entry for `hyperframes` lists Node >=22 in its engines field (https://registry.npmjs.org/hyperframes/latest). - The installer `npx skills add` is the `skills` package on npm. Its registry entry (https://registry.npmjs.org/skills/latest) lists Node >=22.20.0, which is newer than the CLI's own minimum. - FFmpeg, for rendering MP4 files. Check the machine with `npx hyperframes doctor`. - Chrome, which rendering drives headless. `npx hyperframes browser ensure` finds one or downloads one. - Optional: Docker for `--docker` renders, a HeyGen account for HeyGen voices, music and cloud rendering, and Python for the local Kokoro voice. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/authentication - A GPU: HeyGen’s docs list none as a requirement. Chrome uses the host GPU when it can reach one, and `--gpu` switches on hardware FFmpeg encoding. See setup/ffmpeg-and-rendering.md. ## Main install command ``` npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes ``` Run it from your video project's folder and choose **Core Skills** in the picker. Then open or restart your agent in that folder. Source: README, Quick Start, and https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/skills For Claude Code, the README installs the versioned plugin instead: ``` claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes ``` For an agent or CI run with no picker, HeyGen's docs give: ``` npx hyperframes skills update ``` The docs say to choose one install method per agent. ## Per-agent notes - setup/claude-code.md - setup/github-copilot-cli.md - setup/vscode.md - setup/cursor.md - setup/gemini-cli.md - setup/codex.md - setup/opencode.md - setup/antigravity.md - setup/ibm-bob.md - setup/studio-app.md - setup/hosted-connector.md - setup/ffmpeg-and-rendering.md ## Check it Start a fresh agent session and ask for a video, for example: ``` Using /hyperframes, make a 10-second product intro for https://example.com. ``` If the agent does not see the skill, HeyGen's docs say to start a new session and run `npx hyperframes skills check`. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/skills ## Update or remove Each agent's file lists the maker's update and removal commands. For standalone skills the docs say `npx hyperframes skills update` never removes a skill, and they point to your standalone skill manager for removal. The `skills` CLI README (https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) lists `npx skills list`, `npx skills update` and `npx skills remove`. The skill folders are named hyperframes, hyperframes-cli, hyperframes-registry and media-use. Inspect the folders before removing anything, since other agents may share a global skills folder. ## What leaves your computer - Local previews and local renders keep the project on your computer. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/faq - Cloud rendering uploads the project to HeyGen. Media files of 5 MB or more upload as HeyGen assets and are referenced by public, unsigned URL. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/deploy/cloud - The hosted connector builds and renders in your HeyGen account. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/mcp - The HyperFrames CLI sends usage data. It stays anonymous until you sign in to HeyGen, and then it is linked to your account. Turn it off with `npx hyperframes telemetry disable` or `HYPERFRAMES_NO_TELEMETRY=1`. `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` also counts. Turning it off also opts the install out of canary rollouts. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/cli, section telemetry - The `skills` installer collects anonymous usage data. `DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` turns it off. Source: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills - Your coding agent sends your prompts to its own provider. Source: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/faq ## Sources - README: https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/blob/main/README.md - LICENSE: https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/blob/main/LICENSE - Plugin guide: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/plugins - Skills guide: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/guides/skills - FAQ: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/faq - CLI reference: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/cli ```` ## What is in it 13 files, 31 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 6 KB setup/antigravity.md 1 KB setup/claude-code.md 3 KB setup/codex.md 2 KB setup/cursor.md 2 KB setup/ffmpeg-and-rendering.md 5 KB setup/gemini-cli.md 1 KB setup/github-copilot-cli.md 1 KB setup/hosted-connector.md 3 KB setup/ibm-bob.md 754 B setup/opencode.md 2 KB setup/studio-app.md 3 KB setup/vscode.md 918 B ``` ## Source [heygen-com/hyperframes on GitHub](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes) ## Intro videos - [HyperFrames by HeyGen intro video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iMWm0aOx8E) - [HyperFrames by HeyGen intro video 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDkycf5vfhI) - [HyperFrames by HeyGen intro video 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiek-fBv924) ## Compare with similar Listed GitHub projects in the same category that share the most topics with this one. | Product | Stars | Activity | Language | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | HyperFrames by HeyGen (this page) | 83,969 | Active | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-14 | | [rails](https://mindket.com/p/67c6eda5-b876-449e-a1e3-3f88af24efa5) | 59,032 | Active | Ruby | MIT | 2026-11-06 | | [Chrome DevTools for agents](https://mindket.com/p/8828dd94-dd74-47ad-b392-52d2cde247bc) | 55,482 | Active | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-13 | | [AutoGen](https://mindket.com/p/e9ec9d34-b356-4acb-9e51-6fc356d32f8e) | 61,752 | — | — | CC-BY-4.0 | — | | [Crawl4AI](https://mindket.com/p/edc556eb-1d8a-4538-ae6e-206c3295089f) | 87,016 | — | — | Apache-2.0 | — | | [goose](https://mindket.com/p/386fc080-3fb8-41d9-bb37-f9d52de75a19) | 56,377 | — | — | Apache-2.0 | — | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-07 to 2026-11-14. Activity is read from each project’s last change on GitHub: Active within 30 days, Quiet within 180, Stale after that. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-09. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · bored\_hacker · 2026-04-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797513): Show HN: HyperFrames – Render Video from HTML via Chrome's BeginFrame API - [Bluesky · Olivier Poncet 🦝 · 2026-10-26](https://bsky.app/profile/ponceto91.bsky.social/post/3myr37ifksc2u): HyperFrames est un framework open-source sous licence Apache-2.0 qui permet de créer des vidéos MP4 à partir de HTML, CSS, médias et animations, puis de les générer localement ou avec des agents IA ⬇️ github.com/heygen-com/h... - [Hacker News · nastrofa · 2026-05-03](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994268): Has anyone tried using Hyperframes? - [Bluesky · @prosperflowio.bsky.social · 2026-10-21](https://bsky.app/profile/prosperflowio.bsky.social/post/3myfwthcxvf2n): Your AI agent writes HTML, HyperFrames renders it into a pixel-perfect MP4, no video editor required. 🔗 github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes Credits: github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes \#hyperframes \#typescript \#opensource - [Hacker News · steveharman · 2026-04-19](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822361): Hyperframes – AI Video Creation for Agents - [Bluesky · Chris Pirillo · 2026-11-04](https://bsky.app/profile/chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzjfcjx4kyi2): HeyGen ships Hyperframes v0.9.13: write HTML, render video, built for agents. https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/releases/tag/v0.9.13 Show HN: Codemap builds a one-page interactive map of any Go repository. https://github.com/peterretief/codemap IEEE Spectrum: AI is forcing teams to pay … - [Hacker News · mv · 2026-05-15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152343): Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending JS/TS · 2026-10-28](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending-js.bsky.social/post/3myxofjw7ri2t): 🎉 Celebrating！ 🎉 (500+ new stars) 📦 heygen-com / hyperframes ⭐ 74,440 (+934) 🗒 TypeScript Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents. - [Hacker News · stronxyo · 2026-11-02](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50343414): Show HN: Quarter – A TUI launcher to browse, search and launch your games: Hello panglesd, glad you like it, enjoy. The video was made by me. With real recordings, capturing the screen running Quarter in Windows Terminal at 4K, so the zoom looks nice when downscaled to 1080p. Then edited with HyperFrames where videos are written as HTML, then rendered to MP4. Claude Code… - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending JS/TS · 2026-10-24](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending-js.bsky.social/post/3myn3rcc26f24): 🎉 Celebrating！ 🎉 (500+ new stars) 📦 heygen-com / hyperframes ⭐ 71,122 (+777) 🗒 TypeScript Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents. - [Hacker News · vunderba · 2026-05-06](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038672): Creating an animated manga with GPT Image 2.0 and Claude Code: So just to be clear, the technical postmortem is very interesting. I’d never heard of hyperframes 1 either, so I’ll have to check that out. But (and again, I know this isn’t the point of the article) the big problem is that its practically a bingo-card of all the standard AI catchphrases. The… - [Bluesky · GitRanks · 2026-10-22](https://bsky.app/profile/gitranks.bsky.social/post/3myhyzmbfs22r): heygen-com/hyperframes gained 10.1k stars in two weeks, up 17% (now 68.1k). The idea: write HTML, render it as video, with the tool built for agents. \#github ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Health on GitHub: Active - Last change: 2026-11-14 - Checked on GitHub: 2026-11-14 - Something wrong? 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