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HyperFrames command-line workflow

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         | `npx hyperframes render --quality delivery --output out.mp4`                  |
| Reproducible container render            | `npx hyperframes render --docker --strict --output out.mp4`                   |
| Local variable-driven batch render       | `npx hyperframes render --batch rows.json --output "renders/{name}.mp4"`      |
| HeyGen-hosted zero-infrastructure render | `npx hyperframes cloud render`                                                |
| Self-managed distributed AWS render      | `npx hyperframes lambda render <project> --width 1920 --height 1080 --wait`   |
| Self-managed distributed GCP render      | `npx hyperframes cloudrun render <project> --width 1920 --height 1080 --wait` |

A render stops when whatever started it stops, so a Ctrl-C or a closed terminal never leaves Chrome running. If your tool kills its whole process group when a command times out or ends, a long render dies with it. Start such a render in its own process group with `HYPERFRAMES_RENDER_DETACHED=1`, for example `bash -c 'set -m; HYPERFRAMES_RENDER_DETACHED=1 npx hyperframes render --output out.mp4 < /dev/null > render.log 2>&1 &'` (works on macOS and Linux), then check the log and the output file instead of waiting on the command.

Skill attribution is automatic — the examples above need no `--skill`. A project scaffolded by a workflow (`hyperframes init --skill=<workflow>`) records its owning skill in `hyperframes.json`, and every later render inherits it on anonymous telemetry: re-renders, `npm run render`, and `--batch` alike. Pass `--skill=<slug>` explicitly only to stamp a project that was not created through a workflow (its first render then persists it).

Use cloud rendering when the user wants hosted rendering without local Chrome, FFmpeg, or AWS. Use Lambda only when AWS ownership is a requirement. Use Cloud Run only when GCP ownership is a requirement. Read the matching reference before running any cloud path.

After verifying a successful render, send one feedback report unless telemetry is disabled or the user opted out:

```bash
npx hyperframes feedback --rating <0-10> --comment "<specific result or friction>"
```

Keep clean-run feedback concise. For any bug or friction, capture a **reproduction packet** before submitting; do not send only a symptom summary. Include the rerunnable command (relative to the project directory — feedback is submitted to a public channel, so do **not** paste absolute paths, home-directory prefixes, or user/machine identifiers), expected versus actual behavior, exact error (also strip absolute paths from stack traces — keep basename + line, drop the leading directory), whether output completed/fell back/failed, workaround, and repro-project status. For a rating ≤ 7 that describes a visual defect (black frame, flicker, corrupt output, wrong frame, blank output, other visual anomaly), also include a `COMPOSITION_STRUCTURE:` block — a privacy-preserving structural anatomy (element census + attribute presence + timeline shape) so maintainers can pattern-match against known bug families without the composition ZIP. Agents auto-fill this via the composition-census helper; the human user does not fill it by hand. If the issue did not reproduce again, say so and still include the last failing command and logs. Use `--file-issue` only with consent: it publishes a minimal reproduction to a public URL. The required packet format and privacy warning live in `references/preview-render.md`.

Two more reports are a `--comment` with no `--rating`, so they never count in the rating metric. Send them unless telemetry is disabled or the user opted out, under the same privacy rules:

- **Missing feature.** Whenever the person asks for something HyperFrames or the host app cannot do, or can only do with a workaround, send one report per ask: `npx hyperframes feedback --comment "MISSING FEATURE: <what the person asked for, in their words, with names, clients, figures and paths left out> | WORKAROUND: <what you did instead, or none>"`. The report is about the capability they wanted, never their content or anything private. A catalog search that found nothing goes to `--search-miss` instead.
- **Host app.** When `HYPERFRAMES_CLIENT` is set, the CLI is running inside a host app. When that app itself gets in the way (a panel, button, preview or export that misbehaves), send `npx hyperframes feedback --comment "HOST APP: <what happened>"` with the reproduction packet.

## Read the matching reference before running a command

The following references and owning skills are mandatory command contracts, not optional background reading. Before running a command in the table, read its matching row.

| Need                                                                                               | Reference                             |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| `init`, `capture`, `skills`                                                                        | `references/init-and-scaffold.md`     |
| `lint`, `check`, motion sidecars, `snapshot`                                                       | `references/lint-validate-inspect.md` |
| `compare`, `grade-compare`, variable-driven `render --batch`                                       | `references/compare-and-batch.md`     |
| `beats` for an existing project's Studio beat grid                                                 | `references/beats.md`                 |
| `preview`, `play`, `render`, `publish`, Studio context, feedback                                   | `references/preview-render.md`        |
| `doctor`, browser management                                                                       | `references/doctor-browser.md`        |
| `auth`, HeyGen-hosted cloud rendering, and template variables                                      | `references/cloud.md`                 |
| AWS Lambda deployment and rendering                                                                | `references/lambda.md`                |
| Google Cloud Run deployment and rendering                                                          | `references/cloudrun.md`              |
| `info`, `upgrade`, `compositions`, `timeline`, `docs`, `benchmark`, telemetry, media preprocessing | `references/upgrade-info-misc.md`     |

For composition variables, also read `/hyperframes-core` → `references/variables-and-media.md`. For `hyperframes add` and `hyperframes catalog`, use `/hyperframes-registry`. Before `hyperframes present`, read `/slideshow`; before `hyperframes keyframes`, read `/hyperframes-keyframes`. For TTS, transcription, captions, or background removal choices, use `/media-use`.

The specialized commands are deliberately documented by their owning workflows:

```bash
npx hyperframes present <project-dir> --port 3004 --no-open
npx hyperframes beats <project-dir> --json
npx hyperframes keyframes <project-dir> --json
npx hyperframes media-treatment --capabilities
npx hyperframes figma asset KEY:10-20
```

`present` serves a navigable deck with presenter and audience synchronization. `beats` is the standalone Studio beat-grid utility defined in `references/beats.md`. `keyframes` surfaces seek-safe animation and motion-path diagnostics. `media-treatment` discovers, applies, and clears deterministic looks on local footage — start with `--capabilities` for the overview and `--capability <name>` for one family; `/media-use` owns which treatment a brief is asking for. `figma` imports over the REST API with the `asset`, `tokens`, and `component` subcommands and needs `FIGMA_TOKEN`; motion and shader import have no REST endpoint and are agent-only, so `/figma` owns those.

## Commands you should not run

Two entries in `hyperframes --help` are not part of the authoring loop, and reaching for them wastes a turn:

- `events` is the telemetry endpoint skills use to report their **own** invocation, ideally from a bundled script. It emits an anonymous event and exits 0 no matter what you pass it. It is not a way to read telemetry back, and an agent has no reason to call it by hand.
- `validate`, `inspect`, and `layout` are deprecated aliases kept for old scripts. `check` is the one that is maintained, and it is what every reference in this skill assumes.

## Remaining harness usage

Run `npx hyperframes usage --json` at the start of a video workflow and again at milestones such as after drafting and before rendering. A fresh read at handoff can serve as the start read. Use `--harness claude-code`, `--harness codex`, or `--harness grok` to select explicitly.

Known results contain `status: "known"`, `harness`, `planTier`, `session`, `weekly`, and `spend`. Each available window contains `usedPercent`, `remainingPercent`, and `resetsAt`; an unavailable window is `null`. `planTier` is the readable subscription tier when available, otherwise `null`. Claude Code reports its shared five-hour and weekly windows; a spend-metered plan (such as Enterprise) has neither and reports `spend`, the share of its billing-period spend limit already used, with `resetsAt: null`. Codex reports its shared session and weekly windows when available. Grok reports its included weekly allowance with `session: null`. Only Claude Code reports `spend`; it is `null` elsewhere. When no window is available the result is `status: "unknown"` with `reason: "no_usage_windows"`.

Unknown results contain `status: "unknown"` and a token-free `reason`. Missing, expired, unsupported, ambiguous, or unreadable logins and unavailable provider responses return unknown. Report the unknown state without guessing allowance. The command reads existing credentials without refreshing or rewriting them and emits no tokens or telemetry. Usage is a snapshot; it does not reserve allowance or estimate the next video's cost. Keep scope and workflow choices with the user.
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