# Plain-Sight Explainer — workflow skill for explainers

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60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Explainers](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/explainers.md)
- **Slug:** `hyperframes-vox-explainer`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** HeyGen (vendor, verified)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes-community-skills/tree/master/skills/vox-explainer
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Node.js 22+, A HyperFrames project (npx hyperframes init), Chrome (seam verifier), FFmpeg
- **Cost:** Free — renders locally with local TTS; a hosted TTS or transcription API, only with your OK, bills through that provider
- **Adoption:** 379 installs, 231 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A gateway workflow for collage-style explainers about something viewers see daily but never looked at, or a storyline mined from documents and links you supply: topic filter or source mining, script, a static design pass on real assets, voiceover timing, build, then numeric QC. It uses a Vox-inspired grammar (measured palette, Archivo Black headlines, a yellow-circle carrier, zoom-isolation cuts) with no Vox affiliation, plus two scripts that stamp and verify transition seams in headless Chrome. Voiceover defaults to local `npx hyperframes tts`, a hosted TTS or transcription API is used only after you approve it; imported by HeyGen's James Russo (community tier).

## Use when

- A plain-sight explainer: why is X everywhere?
- A Vox-style history of an everyday object
- Turn a document or link into a 60–90 s explainer

## Not for

- Brand-faithful product launch films (use HyperFrames)
- Using Vox logos or implying Vox made it

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes-community-skills --skill vox-explainer -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes-community-skills --skill vox-explainer -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes-community-skills --skill vox-explainer -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes-community-skills --skill vox-explainer -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** kokoro

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/hyperframes-vox-explainer.mp4 — Skill launch example ('explain the history of zippers'): collage beats 'Hundreds of feet a day', 'Zipper = the boot', 'It took 30 years and a boot to get a name' (credit: Jake Moran (@jake11moran), HeyGen, https://x.com/jake11moran/status/2092695713012756532)

## Used for

- [Faceless YouTube / TikTok video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/faceless-video.md): A narrated short or long video with no presenter: script, voiceover, visuals, captions, music.
- [Explainer video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/explainer-video.md): A narrated explainer about a product, a topic or a document, with motion graphics or AI visuals.

## More explainers skills

- [HyperFrames](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes.md): Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- [HyperFrames Slideshow](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-slideshow.md): Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- [Remotion Create](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-create.md): Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- [Remotion Maps](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-maps.md): Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- [Higgsfield Video Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-video-explainer.md): Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
- [Explainer Video Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-explainer-video-guide.md): Plan explainer videos end to end: script formulas, pacing, scene planning, voiceover and assembly.

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt