Tracing Beam Through Steps — effect skill for AI agent flows

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A glowing dash travels one path through numbered steps, lighting each as it passes.

What it does

Built on Tracing Beam by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A thin rail connects 3–5 step cards; a bright head with a short tail moves along it and each card lifts and brightens on contact.

When: Explain a 3–5 step workflow (connect → generate → publish) in one continuous move.

Watch out: Do not exceed 5 steps; split longer flows into two scenes.

Timing: 1–1.5 s per segment, power2.inOut; card lift 0.25 s on arrival.

Also called: stepper, progress path, onboarding steps

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add tracing-beam
npx hyperframes add onboarding-stepper-flow

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/stepper  (progress = continuous step index)
const step = interpolate(frame,[0,120],[0,4],{extrapolateRight:'clamp'});

In CapCut

Line shape with a glowing dot sticker keyframed along it; each step card with Animation In timed to the dot.

Ready-made components

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/643996847b5b/take-tracing-beam-through-steps.mp4 — The Tracing Beam component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add tracing-beam), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Tracing Beam, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/components/tracing-beam)

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