ASCII & retro looks — how to make it with code and an AI agent

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Footage or type re-rendered as ASCII, CRT, VHS, halftone or pixels.

Output: Any · Input: Footage or text

Skills that make it end to end

• ASCII Humanist Collage
• Lemo-Opuscar Film Styles

Recipe, beat by beat

Each beat lists components that build it; install any with its command, then fill its slots.

Source (Galleries & carousels)

• Card Catalog Explainer — A 56 s explainer: a wall of code-made videos, then one request travels through a card catalog to the finished MP4. Point config.json at any · git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/card-catalog-explainer && bash make.command
• Stamp Carousel — An iPhone swiping through your pictures as perforated postage stamps, the screen colour following each stamp. MP4 on a background or with al · git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/stamp-carousel && bash make.command
• Camera Shake — Procedural handheld, telephoto and rig camera shake for any wrapper: nine measured profiles with per-lens projection, closed-form and seek-s · npx hyperframes add camera-shake

Treatment (Generative & ASCII, Textures & overlays, Filters & grades)

• ASCII Render Pass — A slotted scene renders as live ASCII: a canvas samples the source's luminance grid (rasterized once at mount) and draws glyphs from a densi · npx hyperframes add ascii-render-pass
• ASCII Trail Reveal — An authored S-curve sweeps through a deterministic ASCII grid, flipping cells away to reveal a labeled panel. · npx hyperframes add ascii-trail-reveal
• Code Shader Dissolve — The code compiles into existence: a GPU fragment shader resolves it out of seeded noise with a chromatic dissolve front and edge glow, then · npx hyperframes add code-shader-dissolve
• Camcorder HUD — Responsive REC, battery, editable date placeholder, and timeline-driven counter overlay for creator-camera and camcorder treatments · npx hyperframes add camcorder-hud
• Glitch RGB — RGB chromatic aberration with CRT scanline overlay · npx hyperframes add caption-glitch-rgb
• Blur In — An Operator Black word-level content reveal that resolves its own text from controlled blur · npx hyperframes add blur-in
• Blur Out Up — Words arrive clean and depart upward with increasing blur for airy exits. · npx hyperframes add blur-out-up

Title (Kinetic type)

• Anime JP Subtitles — Japanese captions in four anime styles from one subs.json: fansub lines with a karaoke sweep, TV telop with popping letters, a vertical tate · git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-jp-subtitles && bash make.command
• Liquid Thorn Logo — Any word as a black-metal chrome logo that a cursor smears with a WebGL fluid. · git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/liquid-thorn-logo && bun render.ts --text "WORD"
• Apple Money Count — Apple-style finance counter that counts from $0 to $10,000, flashes green, and bursts money icons with sound. · npx hyperframes add apple-money-count

Generated footage, voice and music

Code renders the layout for free. Anything generated — AI shots, voiceover, music, lip-sync — runs on varg with one key: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, the Claude Code plugin claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg, or the MCP https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp.