News explainer — 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.

A story in 60 seconds: the headline, the context on a map, the numbers, what it means.

Output: 9:16 or 16:9 · 30–90 s · Input: An article

Recipe, beat by beat

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

Headline (Headlines & quotes, Tickers & HUD)

• Canopy Part Title — Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. · npx hyperframes add canopy-part-title
• Char Slam Explode — 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 — A tiled headline surface flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal the rear headline. · npx hyperframes add code-slice-hero
• Camcorder HUD — Responsive REC, battery, editable date placeholder, and timeline-driven counter overlay for creator-camera and camcorder treatments · npx hyperframes add camcorder-hud
• Lower Third — BILD Style — News-style lower third with tight-fit text boxes: white headline bar with red drop-shadow, red sub-line with white drop-shadow. · npx hyperframes add lower-third-bild
• News Ticker — Premium broadcast-style lower-third ticker with live label, headline ribbon, and scrolling news crawl. · npx hyperframes add news-ticker

Context (Galleries & carousels, Maps & globes, Callouts & annotations)

• 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
• North Korea Locked Down — 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 — 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 — Animated Spain choropleth by autonomous community with staggered reveals and gradient legend — D3 conic conformal projection · npx hyperframes add spain-map
• AI Answer Rank — 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
• Animated Bar Chart — A compact data card with deterministic bar growth and value callouts. · npx hyperframes add animated-bar-chart
• Arc Motion Path — A GSAP MotionPath primitive that flies a callout along a curved arc with autorotation. · npx hyperframes add arc-motion-path

Numbers (Stats & KPIs, Charts & data viz)

• 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
• Badge Pop — A transitions.dev-inspired notification badge pop with elastic scale and count reveal · npx hyperframes add badge-pop
• Bar Chart Race — 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
• Animated Bar Chart — A compact data card with deterministic bar growth and value callouts. · npx hyperframes add animated-bar-chart
• Chart Story — 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

Takeaway (Lists & rankings)

• AI Answer Rank — 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 — 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 — 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: Captions & subtitles, Lower thirds

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.