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name: product-launch-video description: "Turn a product or marketing URL, pasted script, or brief into a product launch / promo video — SaaS promos, feature reveals, product demos, app and company launches. Use when the user wants to market, launch, promote, or reveal a product; the default for any commercial URL. Site tours / showcases of a website route here too — the brief carries the show-it-as-is intent. Unclear → /hyperframes."

First, keep this skill fresh — confirm with the user before running: npx hyperframes skills update product-launch-video. A fast no-op when everything is current; otherwise it refreshes this skill plus the core domain skills it depends on before you rely on them.

media-use: Before sourcing audio/images/logos, call /media-use to resolve BGM/SFX/images from the HeyGen catalog and brand logos from their official sources. Run --adopt first to register existing assets. See /media-use skill.

figma source: If the source is a figma.com URL, run /figma first — asset export, brand tokens, and components/storyboard reconstruction if needed — then build this workflow from its output. Don't drive Figma via raw MCP tools directly: that skips SVG sanitization, .media/manifest.jsonl provenance, and brand-token var() binding, so a later brand change can't propagate without a full re-import.

Product Launch to HyperFrames

Use this skill to capture a product, understand its brand, plan a launch video, and build it frame by frame in HyperFrames.

The front door is /hyperframes. You are the orchestrator. Run each step, verify its gate, and only then continue to the next step. This skill is for a product being marketed, launched, promoted, or revealed, including requests such as "promo for our site" when the purpose is promotional. A site tour / showcase ask stays here too: BRIEF.md carries the show-it-as-is intent, and the captured screens become the assets the video features. Any other intent, a bare "make a video", or any uncertainty → read /hyperframes first — the intent layer owns every route decision, and a fresh creation arriving here without BRIEF.md goes through it anyway (Setup's opening rule).

You are the orchestrator. Work in videos/<project>/. Run steps in order and pass each gate before continuing. User-gated steps are Step 0, Step 3, and Step 6. Read ../hyperframes/references/brief-contract.md before Step 0 — it defines the gate types and how BRIEF.md's flow/storyboard derive the mode that governs the Step 3/4/6 gates. Do every step yourself except Step 5, where you dispatch one sub-agent per frame. Do not put design or motion rules here; those live in the frame-worker sub-agent, this skill's local ../hyperframes-animation/rules/ + ../hyperframes-animation/blueprints/, and hyperframes-creative.

Workflow: Step 0 setup -> hyperframes.json; Step 1 capture -> capture/; Step 2 design system -> frame.md; Step 3 storyboard/script -> STORYBOARD.md and SCRIPT.md; Step 3.1 audio -> audio_meta.json; Step 4 visual design -> enriched STORYBOARD.md; Step 5 frames -> compositions/frames/NN-*.html and index.html; Step 6 final render -> renders/video.mp4.

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Step 0: Setup

Goal: Enter with a confirmed brief, create the HyperFrames project, and make the brief durable.

The brief is confirmed by the intent layer, not by questions asked here. Opening rule, in order: (1) BRIEF.md exists → read it and ask nothing — the brief is settled, and its flow/storyboard derive the mode (brief contract § 1). (2) No BRIEF.md but the project exists (hyperframes.json / STORYBOARD.md on disk) → resume from the storyboard's frontmatter and the recorded preferences; never re-interrogate a half-built project. (3) Neither — a fresh creation request that arrived here directly → read /hyperframes and run its intent layer (references/intent-interview.md): it checks recipes and remembered defaults, conducts this route's questions (../hyperframes/references/routes/product-launch-video.md), and hands back the locked brief. Edit requests skip all of this — go do the edit.

Initialize only if hyperframes.json is missing. Name <project> from the brand or domain in kebab-case, such as acme-promo; never use workspace name or timestamp.

npx hyperframes init "videos/<project>" --non-interactive --example=blank --skill=product-launch-video — init checks the installed skills against the latest on GitHub and updates the global set if any are out of date.

After init, let <PROJECT_ROOT> be videos/<project> and run every subsequent relative-path command with that directory as its working directory. In the commands below, . means <PROJECT_ROOT>; never write .media, capture, or output files in the caller directory.

Write BRIEF.md immediately after init (never before — init refuses a non-empty directory): the intent layer's locked brief, shape per ../hyperframes/references/brief-format.md. Resolve <MEDIA_DIR> as the installed /media-use skill directory. Then record each preference-backed answer with node <MEDIA_DIR>/scripts/prefs.mjs record --hyperframes . (brief-format.md names the subset). If the intent layer adopted a recipe, run node <MEDIA_DIR>/scripts/recipe.mjs use --hyperframes . --name <name>; it copies its frame.md into the project (Step 2 is then skipped) and returns the skeletons Step 3 drafts from. A recipe fills answers, not approvals; the review gates still run.

Show sign-in status before proceeding past Setup — run npx hyperframes auth status and relay its output verbatim. It reports whether voice/BGM will use HeyGen or local engines and, when signed out, how to sign in. Note the exit code contract: auth status exits 1 when not signed in (and when the stored credential is rejected) — that non-zero exit is the normal signed-out state, not a command failure, so don't treat it as an error, don't retry it, and don't chain it with &&/set -e in a way that would abort the workflow. Apply one branch:

• Collaborative: wait for the user to sign in or explicitly choose offline / go.
• Autonomous: state the status and continue through the available local engines.

Do not silently omit a required capability when no offline provider exists; surface the blocker. Do not fold this decision into another question or write keys into a per-repo .env. Auth ownership and offline fallbacks: /media-use references/setup-providers.md § Providers.

Gate: hyperframes.json and BRIEF.md exist; the preference-backed answers were recorded (brief contract § 2); sign-in status was shown (signed in, or continuing offline).

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Step 1: Capture assets

Goal: Collect the source material, brand signals, and usable assets for the video.

Classify the input and choose the path. Explicit URL -> capture it and use the site for narration and assets. Pasted script/brief -> save verbatim as user_script.txt; VO_MODE (verbatim or restructured) comes from BRIEF.md — the intent layer asks it when a script arrives (ask once here only if the brief somehow lacks it). Then resolve capture target: URL in text -> use it; brand name only -> WebSearch, confirm URL in one line, then crawl; no URL/site (or the brief says don't scrape) -> no-capture path.

Run capture with: npx hyperframes capture "<URL>" -o ./capture --json. Keep the default post-navigation budget unless the caller owns a smaller deadline; then pass a positive --capture-budget <milliseconds> that leaves time for downstream work. --timeout controls page navigation only. Use --skip-vision only when optional image captioning is intentionally disabled.

Inspect the command result and output directory immediately. A non-zero exit, JSON ok: false, or capture/BLOCKED.md is a hard stop for the capture path: report the recorded reason and do not consume partial screenshots, DOM, tokens, or assets. Do not manufacture a synthetic no-capture fallback after a failed URL capture. Continue through the no-capture path only when the original brief supplied the source material, or when the user explicitly switches to a provided screenshot or brief after the failure.

Warnings such as very little text content together with an empty asset catalog are not proof of a usable page. For a site tour or show-it-as-is brief, require trustworthy captured structure or a provided screenshot; if neither exists, stop. Do not invent or rebuild the page merely because the capture is unusable.

For a site tour or show-it-as-is brief, the captured page is the visual source of truth. Use the real screenshot instead of rebuilding the full website in HTML. If the shot needs internal movement, keep the screenshot as the base and overlay real captured assets at measured positions, or rebuild only the one component that moves. For a scroll shot, animate the viewport over capture/screenshots/full-page.png — the 1x plate of the whole document, pixel-exact for a 1920-wide viewport travelling down it. It is absent when the page was too tall to capture in one piece; fall back to the overlapping scroll-position shots in the same directory. Pushing in past 1:1 wants its own 2x capture of that region instead, since the plate has no headroom above 1x. Recreate the whole page only when the user explicitly asks for a stylized interpretation; an unusable capture alone is not authorization.

If GEMINI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, or an OpenRouter key exists, capture auto-captions assets into capture/extracted/asset-descriptions.md. This is not a review gate. Without a vision key, use DOM context and continue.

No-capture path: create capture/extracted/tokens.json, capture/extracted/visible-text.txt, capture/extracted/asset-descriptions.md, and capture/assets/ by hand. tokens.json should be { "title": "", "description": "", "colors": [], "fonts": [] }; fill title/description from the brief when possible. visible-text.txt contains the full brief or script. asset-descriptions.md should say no assets were captured unless the user gave asset notes.

Gate: capture JSON reported ok: true; capture/BLOCKED.md does not exist; capture/extracted/tokens.json, capture/extracted/visible-text.txt, capture/extracted/asset-descriptions.md, and capture/assets/ exist; and you can state the brand in one clear sentence. Treat asset-descriptions.md as the main asset inventory. If it is missing after real capture, stop and report capture incomplete. Warnings about a degraded optional phase are acceptable only when this structural gate still passes.

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Step 2: Design System

Goal: Choose one shipped frame preset; a script turns it into this video's frame.md + caption skin.

When BRIEF.md names a style_preset — the user picked it by eye from the showcases at the intent layer — use it; the judgment call is yours only when the brief is silent. Then you make the one call — which preset: read ../hyperframes-creative/references/design-spec.md and pick the preset whose look best fits the brand and brief. Then run:

node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/build-frame.mjs --preset <name> --hyperframes .

The script does the rest deterministically: copies the preset's FRAME.md → frame.md and remixes it onto the brand tokens in capture/extracted/tokens.json (brand colors mapped onto the preset's color keys by role — ink, canvas, accents — keeping keys/structure/components; the preset's display + body fonts swapped for the brand's), copies the preset's caption skin to .hyperframes/caption-skin.html, and self-validates (exits 1 on a broken mapping). Proceed to the next step as soon as it exits 0 — no hand-editing of the spec.

tokens.json with no brand colors/fonts (e.g. no capture) → the script keeps the preset's own palette, a complete shippable design. If the brief names brand colors/fonts the capture missed, add them to capture/extracted/tokens.json