vfx-text-cursor

vfx-text-cursor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexu-io/html-video. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vfx-text-cursor, Apache-2.0.

A visual design recipe for video openings where a typing cursor reveals a quote with colored light trails, flares, and a final shimmer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or build a 1920×1080 video intro or hero frame with word-by-word text, a blinking cursor, motion trails, light effects, captions, and a timecode.
Why use it?
It gives a specific way to make text appear animated and cinematic instead of showing it all at once.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan or build a 1920×1080 video intro or hero frame with word-by-word text, a blinking cursor, motion trails, light effects, captions, and a timecode.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nexu-io/html-video/vfx-text-cursor
About the project

html-video is a local tool that turns HTML, CSS, and data into animated MP4 videos using configurable rendering engines and templates. Coding agents use it to create and export videos on a user's machine, with optional AI-generated soundtracks. The catalogue skills operate the tool and its video-generation workflow.

nexu-io/html-video · 4,547 stars · on GitHub · open-design.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 nexu-io/html-video --skill vfx-text-cursor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/html-video

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for vfx-text-cursor

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexu-io/html-video/vfx-text-cursor.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexu-io/html-video/vfx-text-cursor)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexu-io/html-video/vfx-text-cursor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexu-io/html-video/vfx-text-cursor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,166 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 8d ago against content hash 62ff80a083bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vfx-text-cursor 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to vfx-text-cursor — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

templates/vfx-text-cursor/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

【模板: VFX 文字光标 (Text Cursor)】 【意图】视频开场/Hero 帧 —— 光标在画布上"打字", 文字逐字浮现, 后面拖着彩色像散尾迹 + 定向光斑。Inspired by hyperframes vfx-text-cursor。

【画布】1920×1080, 背景 #06070a 暗哑黑 或 #0a0d12 (有暖偏蓝); 加微妙 vignette。

【内容】

  • 一句金句 (中英不限), 居中, 字号 6-8vw, weight 700, 字体 Inter Tight / Source Sans 3 / Noto Sans SC
  • 逐字揭示, 每个字符 80ms 间隔; 当前字符后面跟着一个 cursor (或细 vertical bar)。
  • 已揭示文字默认白色 #f5f5f7, opacity 1; 即将揭示位置加 chromatic ghost: 一份 text-shadow: 2px 0 #ff3b6f, -2px 0 #00d4ff 在 reveal 瞬间, 200ms 内收敛回正常。
  • 光标本身: 16px 宽矩形, 颜色 = accent (取 1: hot pink #ff3b6f / cyan #00d4ff / amber #ffb547), 闪烁 @keyframes 1.0s 周期; 后面拖一条 60-120px 的 motion blur trail (径向渐变到透明)。

【光斑 / 射线】

  • 在打字位置附近随机生成 3-5 道定向光斑 (light leak): 用 linear-gradient(45deg, transparent, accent20, transparent) 的细长矩形 + mix-blend-mode: screen, 不规则角度。
  • 当文字打完, 整段文字加 0.5s shimmer sweep (光带横扫)。

【字段】

  • 顶部 caption (uppercase letterspace 0.18em, 11px, opacity 0.5): "FRAME 01 · OPENING"。
  • 文字底下副标 (24-28px, opacity 0.6): 来源 / 章节。
  • 右下角 timecode (00:03:21 mono)。

【设计细节】

  • 绝不: 多色彩虹 chromatic (只用 1 个 hot pink + cyan 这种二元像散, 不要 R/G/B 全色)。
  • 字体: 西文 Inter Tight Bold; 中文 Noto Sans SC Bold; 严禁衬线。
  • 动效用 @keyframes + JS 计时器 (setTimeout 逐字), 可被 prefers-reduced-motion 关闭 (直接显示所有字)。
  • 必须用用户提供的金句; 不要捏造。
  • 单文件 HTML, 不要外链字体以外的资源。
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 65 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 62ff80a083bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vfx-text-cursor is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexu-io/html-video (4,547 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,166 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to vfx-text-cursor, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.