cut-the-curve

cut-the-curve is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from heygen-com/hyperframes. It costs 236 tokens per session (4,254 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A collection of motion techniques for joining scenes and moving text or groups in HyperFrames videos. It matches the direction and speed of movement across a cut so the video feels continuous.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scene-to-scene cuts, text swaps, title-card arrivals, list introductions, and repositioning groups within a scene. It includes zoom, directional, waterfall, and blur-based techniques.
Why use it?
It prevents scene changes from feeling like unrelated slides or from losing the viewer's visual momentum. It provides different transition styles for different kinds of handoffs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hyperframes plugin — 26 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heygen-com/hyperframes/cut-the-curve
Any agent
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill cut-the-curve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hyperframes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,254 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00236 $0.04254
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.02127
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00851
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00425

Measured 4d ago against content hash dd08a1fedca9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cut-the-curve 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 4d ago.

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.

.agents/skills/cut-the-curve/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cut the Curve — the technique catalog

Five SEAM techniques, one principle: cut at peak velocity, match direction and speed on both sides of the cut — plus the two in-scene techniques (§6 arrivals, §7 slides). The seam LAW — vector law, the current, the ledger, the Seam Gate — lives in motion-doctrine; read it first. This skill is the parameters and mechanics. All GSAP code templates (worker + registry): examples/gsap-implementation.md.

Catalog

# Technique Scope Axis Use for
1 Zoom-Through (forward) Within-scene text swap Z, toward viewer progressing deeper into the same thought
2 Inverse Zoom-Through Arrival / payoff beat Z, away from viewer something bigger lands
3 Cut the Curve Between scenes X / Y the default boundary, the film's current
4 Waterfall Cut Text-to-text seam X, per-word word-level handoff between big-text beats
5 Rack-Focus Blur-Cut Same-surface state swap X / Y / Z the one cut you want SEEN — a DSLR focus-pull flourish
6 Waterfall Entry In-scene ARRIVAL (no seam) Y, from below title cards, segment openers, list intros
7 Nudge Curve In-scene group slide (no seam) X / Y repositioning a composed group to make room

Z direction is a sign

"Same axis" is not enough on Z — the sign of d(scale)/dt must match across the cut:

Z vector Exit scale Entry scale Variant
Push (forward) growing 1 → 1.2 growing 0.75 → 1 zoom-through
Pull (back) shrinking 1 → 0.8 shrinking 1.25 → 1 inverse zoom-through

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 259 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A dd08a1fedca9

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cut-the-curve is a skill published in the GitHub repository heygen-com/hyperframes (43,593 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 4,254 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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