render-imessage-cascade

render-imessage-cascade is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (1,022 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deterministic video template for an iPhone-style notification ad. Messages are drawn as crisp Apple Messages banners over a phone-on-desk video, with each new banner appearing at the bottom and pushing older ones upward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a short vertical ad from a desk video, a list of three to five messages, a logo or wordmark, and an end-card design. It can draw and animate the banners, add the grouped-message controls, clear the stack, and finish with a serif end card.
Why use it?
It removes the need to generate user-interface text with a video model, which can make letters blurry or inaccurate. It gives the notification stack, controls, and ending a fixed, repeatable layout.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create a short vertical ad from a desk video, a list of three to five messages, a logo or wordmark, and an end-card design. It can draw and animate the banners, add the grouped-message controls, clear the stack, and finish with a serif end card.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/render-imessage-cascade
About the project

Goose Skills is a library of workflows and data APIs that lets coding agents handle growth and go-to-market work such as advertising, social media, content, SEO, lead generation, and customer research. It is intended for teams using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar agents. The catalogue entries are its reusable skills.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,202 stars · on GitHub · gooseworks.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill render-imessage-cascade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,022 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00153 $0.01022
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00102

Measured 13d ago against content hash 092576fca7c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

render-imessage-cascade scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_assets.py, scripts/compose.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ads/capabilities/render-imessage-cascade/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

render-imessage-cascade

The free, deterministic renderer for the imessage-notification-cascade video ad format — the viral iOS trend where a phone sits on a desk and Apple Messages notifications STACK IN one after another. The signature mechanic is the bottom-up push: each new banner springs in at the bottom (nearest the phone) and shoves every existing one UP a row; the iOS grouped "⌄ Show less / ✕" pill rides above the stack; the ✕ clears the stack; then a serif end card resolves.

This is a DETERMINISTIC composite — no generative video of the UI. Authentic iMessage banners are drawn in PIL and animated in FFmpeg over a Ken-Burns plate, so the notification text + wordmark stay pixel-crisp (a video model would smear type). The template recipe supplies the per-brand plate, notifications, and end_card config and gates the only paid steps — cleaning the plate (→ create-image-fal) and the music bed/pop (→ create-music-elevenlabs) — to their own capabilities. This capability itself makes no paid calls.

Scripts (free)

  • scripts/build_assets.py — draws the assets from config: nb-1..N.png (authentic banners — green Messages icon, warm translucent-greige fill, soft box-shadow, title/body/NOW/handle), pill.png (right-aligned "⌄ Show less / ✕"), endcard.png (serif CTA + wordmark lockup + url). Fonts are load-bearing: SF Pro (SFNS.ttf) via set_variation_by_name for the banner title/body/NOW/handle (Arial fallback), Times/serif for the end-card CTA. Do NOT swap in Helvetica/Arial as the primary — the banners must read as the real iOS system font.
  • scripts/compose.py — Ken-Burns push-in on the plate → each banner springs in at the BOTTOM while later arrivals push the stack UP (FFmpeg overlay y expressions) → pill rides above → ✕-clear swipes the stack up + fades → serif end card fades in → optional audio (bed + pop per arrival + a free FFmpeg swoosh on the clear) → encode h264 + aac.
  • scripts/config.example.json — the shape of the brand config the recipe binds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 60 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 092576fca7c0

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render-imessage-cascade is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,202 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 1,022 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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