# History timeline — 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.

Events along a line: dates tick, places light up, archive images drift.

**Output:** 16:9 · 30–180 s · **Input:** Dated events with images

## Recipe, beat by beat

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

**Era** (Title cards)

- [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`
- [Text + Circle Carousel 1](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-1.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-1`
- [Text + Circle Carousel 2](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-2.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-2`

**Events** (Steps & timelines, Galleries & carousels, Maps & globes)

- [Card Catalog Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.card-catalog-explainer.md) — 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`
- [varg Previz](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.previz.md) — A three.js grey-box previz of every shot on the timeline — auto cameras from storyboard words, a posable mannequin — then one Seedance 2.5 v · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-previz/scripts/new_previz.py my-previz`
- [Agent Cursor](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.agent-cursor.md) — An AI agent operating a UI: a cursor with an accent name label that types out each step, clicks each target with a small ring, and ends on a · `npx hyperframes add agent-cursor`
- [Stamp Carousel](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.stamp-carousel.md) — 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](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camera-shake.md) — 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`
- [North Korea Locked Down](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.north-korea-locked-down.md) — Realistic map zoom into North Korea with a red scribble circle, locked-down pop-up label, and reddish editorial wash. · `npx hyperframes add north-korea-locked-down`
- [NYC Paris Flight](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.nyc-paris-flight.md) — Apple-style realistic map animation with a plane flying from New York to Paris, marker circle, landing pop, and sound effects. · `npx hyperframes add nyc-paris-flight`
- [Spain Map](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.spain-map.md) — Animated Spain choropleth by autonomous community with staggered reveals and gradient legend — D3 conic conformal projection · `npx hyperframes add spain-map`

**Detail** (Headlines & quotes, Camera moves)

- [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`
- [varg Previz](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.previz.md) — A three.js grey-box previz of every shot on the timeline — auto cameras from storyboard words, a posable mannequin — then one Seedance 2.5 v · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-previz/scripts/new_previz.py my-previz`
- [Camcorder HUD](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camcorder-hud.md) — Responsive REC, battery, editable date placeholder, and timeline-driven counter overlay for creator-camera and camcorder treatments · `npx hyperframes add camcorder-hud`
- [Dolly Zoom (Vertigo Shot)](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camera-dolly-zoom.md) — Camera tracks toward or away from the subject while the field of view changes the opposite way, so the subject holds its frame size while th · `npx hyperframes add camera-dolly-zoom`

**Summary** (Lists & rankings)

- [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`
- [AI Chat Reveal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ai-chat-reveal.md) — A question is typed on a rising keyboard, sent, and answered by an AI that streams its reply word by word on a measured token rhythm - think · `npx hyperframes add ai-chat-reveal`
- [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`

**Across the whole video:** Textures & overlays, Filters & grades

## 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`.
