# Data story — 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.

One question answered with a chart that builds, annotations that point, a number that sticks.

**Output:** 16:9 or 9:16 · 30–90 s · **Input:** A CSV or JSON

## Skills that make it end to end

- [Sourced Data-Story Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/want-data-story-explainer.md)

## Ready templates

- [NYT Graph](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.nyt-graph.md) — Animated data chart in print editorial style · install: `npx hyperframes init my-video --example nyt-graph`

## Recipe, beat by beat

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

**Question** (Headlines & quotes)

- [Canopy Part Title](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.canopy-part-title.md) — Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. · `npx hyperframes add canopy-part-title`
- [Char Slam Explode](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.char-slam-explode.md) — Headline glyphs hold in a deterministic scatter, then reassemble with an overshooting slam and a three-frame landing shake. · `npx hyperframes add char-slam-explode`
- [Code Slice Hero](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.code-slice-hero.md) — A tiled headline surface flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal the rear headline. · `npx hyperframes add code-slice-hero`

**Chart** (Charts & data viz, Callouts & annotations)

- [Animated Bar Chart](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.animated-bar-chart.md) — A compact data card with deterministic bar growth and value callouts. · `npx hyperframes add animated-bar-chart`
- [Bar Chart Race](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.bar-chart-race.md) — Ranked bars grow and overtake each other as a time series advances, with the axis rescaling as values climb and the accent handing over to w · `npx hyperframes add bar-chart-race`
- [Chart Story](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.chart-story.md) — One chart builds from data in reading order and lands the exact supplied values: staggered bars, a left-to-right line with area fill, a swee · `npx hyperframes add chart-story`
- [AI Answer Rank](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ai-answer-rank.md) — Is your brand in the AI answer? A question types into a chat card, the assistant answers with a ranked list of three picks, then re-ranks: t · `npx hyperframes add ai-answer-rank`
- [Arc Motion Path](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.arc-motion-path.md) — A GSAP MotionPath primitive that flies a callout along a curved arc with autorotation. · `npx hyperframes add arc-motion-path`

**Insight** (Stats & KPIs, Kinetic type)

- [Apple Money Count](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.apple-money-count.md) — 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`
- [Badge Pop](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.badge-pop.md) — A transitions.dev-inspired notification badge pop with elastic scale and count reveal · `npx hyperframes add badge-pop`
- [Bar Chart Race](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.bar-chart-race.md) — Ranked bars grow and overtake each other as a time series advances, with the axis rescaling as values climb and the accent handing over to w · `npx hyperframes add bar-chart-race`
- [Anime JP Subtitles](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-jp-subtitles.md) — 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](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.liquid-thorn-logo.md) — 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"`

**Source** (Text reveals)

- [Anime JP Subtitles](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-jp-subtitles.md) — 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`
- [Apple Notes Video](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.apple-notes-video.md) — Any text typed live in an iPhone Apple Notes screen over the iOS keyboard, with key clicks, optional music and an end card. 9:16. · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/apple-notes-video && bun install`
- [Blur In](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blur-in.md) — An Operator Black word-level content reveal that resolves its own text from controlled blur · `npx hyperframes add blur-in`

**Across the whole video:** Transitions, Themes & brand kits

## 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`.