cut-the-curve
An agent skill by heygen-com, from heygen-com/hyperframes. Tags: debugging, design, motion-graphics, transition, video.
What it does
The technique catalog: five velocity-matched SEAMS (zoom-through, INVERSE zoom-through, cut-the-curve, waterfall cut, rack-focus blur-cut) plus the two in-scene techniques — waterfall ENTRY (staggered arrival cascades for title cards / segment openers) and the nudge curve (slow-fast-slow three-phase group slides). Covers partial-travel (~12% of frame) velocity matching via mirrored power4 eases, the Z scale-sign rule, size-scaled blur (10px text / 18-20px full-frame), word-by-word staggered cuts, cascade pacing by element weight, and the 10/65/25 slide ratio. Read before authoring any transition, text-beat handoff, kinetic text entry, or group reposition. [depth, zoom, inverse-zoom, scale-sign, mirrored-zoom, rack-focus, pacing, velocity, cut-the-curve, waterfall, stagger, cascade, kinetic-text, title-card, segment-opener, nudge, slide, easing, group-motion, z-depth, motion-graphics, cinematic, transition, blur, directional-continuity]
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill cut-the-curveOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes
cp -r hyperframes/.agents/skills/cut-the-curve ~/.claude/skills/cut-the-curveSafety box score
Not rated yet. A safety box score grades what a skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. Anyone can request one from this page; it is saved for everyone. How the score works.
Source
- Repository
- heygen-com/hyperframes (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- .agents/skills/cut-the-curve/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
Related skills
- motion-doctrine — GATEWAY — load FIRST before composing any HyperFrames animation or video.
- seam-craft — Render-correctness doctrine for scene-to-scene seams in HyperFrames launch videos — the prerequisites that make transitions composite correctly on the master.
- ad-creative — When the user wants to generate, iterate, or scale ad creative — headlines, descriptions, primary text.
- captions-overlay — Overlay doctrine for the embedded-captions workflow — the caption MODEL (drop / rail / embed) and the rule that captions are an OVERLAY composited on top of.
- embedded-captions — Add captions or subtitles to an existing single-subject talking-head video without editing the footage.
- faceless-explainer — Turn arbitrary text — an article, notes, a topic, a brief — into a faceless explainer video: there is no site or footage to capture.