helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring

A set of rules for creating programmatic videos with Hyperframes, a system that renders HTML, CSS, and JavaScript compositions into MP4 files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides the creation of deterministic video compositions, including their timelines, layout, animation code, and local assets.
Why use it?
It prevents animations from changing between preview and final rendering when the renderer jumps directly to individual frames.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tosin2013/helmdeck/helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring
Any agent
npx skills add tosin2013/helmdeck --skill helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tosin2013/helmdeck

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,453 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 $0.00132 $0.03453
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01726
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00345

Measured 2d ago against content hash 08838a84d077, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring 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 2d 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/helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hyperframes authoring — render-deterministic rules

When you write composition HTML/CSS/JS for hyperframes, the renderer seeks to each frame index rather than playing the timeline forward. Anything that depends on continuous wall-clock time, animation history, or post-paint DOM mutation breaks during seek — even if it looks perfect in hyperframes preview. Upstream tracks this as "the hardest class of bug in agent-authored compositions". The rules below collapse to one principle: everything must be reconstructible from the timeline's current totalTime() alone.

Before you write any composition: the four rules to remember

  1. One GSAP timeline per composition, registered synchronously, keyed by data-composition-id.
  2. Layout in HTML/CSS (final visible state); animate with gsap.from() into that state.
  3. No setTimeout, setInterval, requestAnimationFrame, repeat: -1, or post-paint DOM mutation.
  4. All assets local (no Google Fonts CDN, no S3 URLs, no jsdelivr except GSAP itself).

The structural contract

Timeline registration

Every composition ends its <script> with this exact shape:

const tl = gsap.timeline({ paused: true });
// ... synchronous tl.from() / tl.to() / tl.addLabel() calls ...
window.__timelines = window.__timelines || {};
window.__timelines["<composition-id>"] = tl;   // ← KEY MUST EQUAL data-composition-id ATTRIBUTE

The <composition-id> key MUST exactly match the data-composition-id attribute on the composition's root <div>. If they differ, the timeline is registered but never auto-attached to the parent — the composition renders as static last-frame.

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 264 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 08838a84d077

Subscribe to this mod's changes

helmdeck-hyperframes-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository tosin2013/helmdeck (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 3,453 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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