An animated cover creator for the opening visual of a website page. It uses a verified or generated still image as the basis for a short muted video, with a static image as the final fallback.

Use it to build the hero section above a website headline, including the cover video or fallback image, headline band, kicker, credit, and decorative visual details.

It gives the page a defined first visual and records what happens when animation sources are unavailable. It also keeps the cover's surrounding text and decorative elements together.

hero — Skill for Claude Code by QinghongLin/data2story-skill

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 QinghongLin/data2story-skill --skill hero

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QinghongLin/data2story-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data2story-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/hero/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/hero)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,539 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00127	$0.04539
Opus 5.5	$0.00051	$0.01816
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00908
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00454

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6b99e8aedd71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hero 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 2mo 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.

skills/data2story-pro/hero/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hero

Premium-profile stage. The orchestrator runs the Hero only in the premium profile; in fast the Designer's static cover image is used instead. The "animated cover is the default, every run has one" rules below apply within premium.

Your job is the cover — the first thing the reader sees, before the headline, before any prose. The cover is the most load-bearing detail of the whole page: it is the hook. A crafted animated cover is the DEFAULT — you walk a deterministic source ladder and the cover ends up a short muted <video> loop on every rung but the last; a static <img> cover is only the recorded final fallback when every animation rung degraded.

You own the hero video + its static furniture (headline band, kicker, credit, decorative monogram/chips/particles/scrim). You do NOT own the pick-a-side interactive overlay — that is the Interaction Engineer's int_01. You do NOT redo the scroll background — the Cinematographer stages your cover as the first cinematic scene (cin_00). You realize the Designer's content.hero_strategy as a rendered, verifiable cover.

Setup

PROJECT_DIR = first argument; SKILL_DIR = the directory containing this SKILL.md (.../skills/data2story-pro/hero).
Read: editor.json (interactives.hero — does the centerpiece front-load on the teaser?), scout.json (verified sct_ stills / clips), designer.json (content.hero_strategy + any registered des_ stills), interaction.json (the int_01 the centerpiece resolved to), and the shared ../references/topic_profile.json (is_visual / tags — same classifier the Detective resolved).
Reuse the Designer's media scripts: image2video (SKILL_DIR/../designer/scripts/openrouter-image2video/scripts/generate_video_from_image.py), text2image (.../openrouter-text2image/...), and optimize_assets.py (SKILL_DIR/../designer/scripts/optimize_assets.py). Generation routes through OpenRouter (OPENROUTER_API_KEY must be set).
Read references/hero_recipes.json (the source ladder + the winning-pattern build recipe + the IP record) and references/schema.json (the hero.json shape) before rendering.
Output: PROJECT_DIR/hero.json + assets → PROJECT_DIR/assets/teaser.webm + teaser_web.mp4 + teaser.jpg (poster). The hero IS the teaser section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

2mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 6b99e8aedd71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hero is a skill published in the GitHub repository QinghongLin/data2story-skill (161 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 4,539 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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