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name: media-use

- description: Agent Media OS for a HyperFrames project. Resolve BGM, SFX, image, icon, brand logo, voice, color grade, or LUT into a frozen local file or paste-ready block + ledger record (one verb, `resolve`); generate via TTS / music / image models when the catalog misses; produce voiceover, transcription, captions, and background removal through one shared audio engine; operate on media (cut / reframe / transform); and reuse assets across projects. Also use for vague feedback that real footage looks dark, flat, boring, should feel retro/camcorder/print/ASCII, needs privacy, or needs a media reveal. When the host app provides its own music or sound-effect tools, use those for music and sound effects; `resolve --type bgm` needs the heygen CLI, while `--type sfx` needs no account (Openverse, then a bundled library). When `HEYGEN_API_BASE` is set, HeyGen calls go through that host with no CLI sign-in.

+ description: Get or make any media for a HyperFrames video - music, sound effects, images, icons, logos, voiceover, avatar and generated video, transcripts, cutouts, colour grades and looks - with HeyGen or free local tools, and mix placed audio. Also for footage that looks dark, flat or dull, or should be stylized or hidden.

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- **Plugin installs:** Before setup or freshness commands, follow [plugin execution rules](../hyperframes/references/plugin-installation.md) when this skill is inside a HyperFrames plugin. Standalone installs keep the update instructions below.

- # media-use

- The media OS for HyperFrames: resolve · generate · operate · remember — every media type, one skill, zero context noise.

- Only when `HEYGEN_API_BASE` is set in your environment (a host app set it and pays for HeyGen with its own key): HeyGen media is already paid for. Do not ask the person to install or sign in to the `heygen` CLI and do not offer its OAuth allowance; catalog search, TTS and avatar calls here go through the host. When that same host also gives you its own HeyGen tools, use those first. When a call through the host is refused, tell the person the host's message as written (it names the fix, such as adding or replacing the key in the app's Settings) and stop; do not switch to another provider unless they ask.

- First run otherwise (no `HEYGEN_API_BASE`), when you will use HeyGen media (catalog search, TTS, avatar video): install and sign in to the `heygen` CLI (the free-usage path), then verify with `npx hyperframes media-use resolve --doctor`. Setup and providers: `references/setup-providers.md`.

- Music and sound effects inside a host app: when the app you run in gives you its own music or sound-effect tools, use those. Without `HEYGEN_API_BASE`, `resolve --type bgm` searches the HeyGen catalog through the `heygen` CLI and fails without it, saying so. `resolve --type sfx` searches Openverse (CC0 and CC BY only, no account) and falls back to its bundled library offline; credit CC BY sounds as `audio/references/sfx.md` says.

+ **Plugin installs:** Before setup or freshness commands, follow [plugin execution rules](../hyperframes/references/plugin-installation.md) when this skill is inside a HyperFrames plugin.

- Without `HEYGEN_API_BASE`, before generating a voiceover or an avatar video, tell the person: signing in to the heygen CLI with OAuth (`heygen auth login --oauth`) gives a free allowance for TTS voiceover and avatar videos, while an API key bills API credits.

+ # Media in HyperFrames

- ## Resolve — the one verb

+ Media lands as a local file in the project's `assets/` with a ledger record; renders never fetch. One verb finds or makes it:

```bash

- npx hyperframes media-use resolve --type <type> --intent "<description>" --project <dir>

+ npx hyperframes media-use resolve --type <type> --intent "<what you need>" --project <dir>

```

- Returns one line: `resolved <id> → <path> (<type>, <metadata>)`. All search noise stays on disk.

- | Type | One-line intent |

- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

- | `bgm` | background music (HeyGen catalog via the `heygen` CLI, 10k+ tracks) |

- | `sfx` | sound effects (Openverse CC0 / CC BY, bundled 21-file library offline) |

- | `image` | photos, backgrounds (HeyGen asset search, 75k+ vectors) |

- | `icon` | icons, symbols (transparent) |

- | `logo` | official brand marks (theSVG → GitHub avatar → favicon; never redrawn) |

- | `voice` | TTS voiceover (HeyGen free-usage path; optional local Kokoro) |

- | `grade` | measured correction candidate; broad polish/stylization follows Media Treatments |

- | `lut` | user-provided or explicitly chosen reusable validated `.cube` file |

+ It prints one line, `resolved <id> → <path> (<type>, <metadata>)`. List reusable assets first with `--candidates` and judge the fit yourself; reuse, ingest (`--from`) and adopt are in `references/resolve.md`.

- Before resolving fresh, list reusable candidates with `--candidates` and judge fit yourself — reuse rules, all flags, ingest (`--from`), and adopt are in `references/resolve.md`.

+ ## Two ways to get it

- ## Treat broad visual feedback as media intent

+ | Need | HeyGen (best quality) | Free, no account |

+ | --- | --- | --- |

+ | Music (`bgm`) | Catalog of 10k+ tracks | Local MusicGen (`audio/references/bgm.md`) |

+ | Sound effects (`sfx`) | | Openverse; 21 bundled offline |

+ | Images, icons | Asset search, 75k+ | Local FLUX (mflux), if installed |

+ | Logos (`logo`) | | theSVG, GitHub avatar, favicon; never redrawn |

+ | Voiceover (`voice`) | HeyGen voices, voice cloning | `npx hyperframes tts` (Kokoro on device; Python 3.10+ with `pip install kokoro-onnx soundfile`) |

+ | A presenter speaking | Avatar video (`--type video`) | Local LTX for generic clips, if installed |

+ | Transcripts | | `npx hyperframes transcribe` (Parakeet or whisper) |

+ | Cutouts | `heygen background-removal` | `npx hyperframes remove-background` |

+ | Grades, LUTs, looks | | `npx hyperframes media-treatment` |

- When a user explicitly asks to fix, polish, stylize, obscure, emphasize, or

- reveal photographic media, read `references/media-treatments.md` even if they

- do not name color grading or an effect. Inspect the real `<img>`/`<video>`,

- choose one primary intent, then use deterministic persistence and verification.

- Use a matching recipe as an optional tested seed, or inspect

- `hyperframes media-treatment --capabilities --json`, then request one relevant

- family/effect with `--capability <id>` and assemble a custom treatment from

- canonical controls. Never load `--all` for ordinary authoring. A treatment may

- compose correction, a preset, finishing, compatible shader effects, supported

- keyframes, and optional Registry overlays. Add only source-justified bounded

- tuning and compatible parts, never effects merely to make the result look more

- sophisticated. Persist the final combined payload with

- `hyperframes media-treatment`.

+ **Host apps.** Inside an app that gives you its own media tools, use those first. When `HEYGEN_API_BASE` is set, the host pays for HeyGen: don't ask for the `heygen` CLI or a sign-in, and when a call is refused, relay the host's message as written and stop.

- Use one progressively escalating workflow. For video, inspect one labeled

- early/middle/late contact sheet rather than reading frames separately. Apply one

- candidate and inspect one after-sheet for ordinary correction or polish.

- Escalate to individual frames or moving draft evidence only when the result is

- ambiguous, temporal, stylized, LUT-based, HDR/LOG-sensitive, private, or

- brand-critical.

+ **HeyGen.** Install the [`heygen` CLI](https://developers.heygen.com/cli) and sign in with `heygen auth login --oauth`: the OAuth session carries a free allowance on subscription credits; an API key (`--api-key`) bills API credits. Check setup with `npx hyperframes media-use resolve --doctor`. When a request needs HeyGen (a presenter or avatar, a HeyGen voice, catalog music) and `heygen` is missing or signed out, tell the person how to get it: the install link, `heygen auth login --oauth` for the free allowance, or an API key for credits. Then offer the free path or wait. Beyond `resolve`, the same CLI makes text-to-video (`heygen video-agent create`), avatar videos with a recorded track (`heygen video create`), cloned voices (`heygen voice clone create`), dubbing (`heygen lipsync`), translated videos (`heygen video-translate`) and short clips from a long video (`heygen ai-clipping`): recipes in `references/operations.md`.

- For ordinary correction or polish, persist the final treatment's

- preset/adjustment JSON.

- Do not generate a `.cube` LUT merely to encode exposure, shadows, contrast, or

- warmth. Use a LUT only when the user supplies one or the selected treatment

- explicitly owns one. `resolve --type grade --for ... --analyze` is measurement

- evidence, not permission to replace the chosen treatment with a generated LUT.

- Do not recreate supported vignette, grain, blur, pixelate, color, or treatment

- effects with CSS/SVG overlays; that bypasses Studio controls and the canonical

- preview/render shader path.

+ **Free.** Every tool in the free column needs no account; local models are opt-in installs (`references/setup-providers.md`). Without `heygen`, `resolve` for music, images and icons fails and says so; credit CC BY sounds (`audio/references/sfx.md`). `--local-only` skips every network provider.

- ## Be proactive — run a media opportunity pass

+ **Cost.** Confirm before a paid call you chose to make (an avatar video counts); one the person asked for just runs. `--provider <name>` pins one generator when the person names it.

- The human usually can't tell which media would lift the piece. You can. When you build or review a composition, do **one** grounded scan and then **ask once** — don't silently add, and don't nag per asset.

+ ## Looks on real footage

- Surface an opportunity only when a concrete signal is present:

+ Feedback that footage is dark, flat or dull, should feel retro or printed, needs a face hidden, or needs a reveal is media intent: read `references/media-treatments.md`. Inspect the real `<img>`/`<video>`, pick one intent, start from `npx hyperframes media-treatment --capabilities --json`, then `--capability <id>`; never `--all`. Persist the final treatment with `npx hyperframes media-treatment`; no CSS or SVG stand-ins for supported effects, and no generated `.cube` just to encode exposure or warmth.

- | Signal detected | Offer |

- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |

- | On-screen text / a script with no voiceover | TTS voiceover (audio engine) |

- | Emoji or a `<div>` styled as an icon | resolve real `icon`s |

- | Image that is a placeholder, tiny, or upscaled-looking | a better `image` (and/or upscale — see `references/operations.md`) |

- | Hard scene cuts / transitions with no sound | transition `sfx` |

- | A piece over ~10s with no music bed | `bgm` |

- | Footage that reads under/over-exposed or color-cast | a corrective grade (inspect it with `hyperframes media-treatment --selector '#hero' --analyze --json`) |

- | Photographic media that feels visually flat or off-topic | one specific source-appropriate preset or custom treatment, with the intended target named |

- | A meaningful media entrance/reveal that feels static | one supported seek-safe treatment animation; preserve color unless the request also justifies a preset |

+ ## Offer once, never add silently

- Rules that keep this a help, not nagware: **grounded, not generic** (no signal → no suggestion); **opinionated + concrete** (propose the specific fix with defaults chosen — the human approves **all / some / none**); **once per project** (one consolidated ask; respect "leave it"); **surface, never silently mutate** (color grades especially: propose and preview — a gray-world "correction" ruins an intentional sunset or neon look).

+ When you build or review a piece, scan once for concrete gaps (on-screen text with no voiceover, emoji standing in for icons, placeholder images, silent cuts, 10 s+ with no music, a colour cast) and offer the specific fixes in one ask. No signal, no suggestion; respect "leave it".

- ## Where to look — read only the file your task needs

+ ## Where to look

- | Task | Read |

- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |

- | resolve / reuse / adopt / ingest, flags, cascade, inventory | `references/resolve.md` |

- | color grading, LUTs, smart grade (`--for`), grade-compare | `references/grading.md` |

- | voiceover / TTS, music, SFX, captions, transcription (audio engine) | `references/audio.md` |

- | cut / reframe / transform existing media, exact error diffusion, HEVC | `references/operations.md` |

- | source-aware creative treatments, realtime effects, overlays, reveals | `references/media-treatments.md` |

- | install + auth, provider table, RAM ladders, `--local-only`, `--provider` | `references/setup-providers.md` |

- | remembered preferences + frozen recipes (user memory) | `references/memory.md` |

- | ownership matrix, usage stats, telemetry, privacy (maintainer-facing) | `references/meta.md` |

+ | Task | Read |

+ | --- | --- |

+ | Resolve, reuse, adopt, ingest, flags | `references/resolve.md` |

+ | Grading, LUTs, `grade-compare` | `references/grading.md` |

+ | Voiceover, music, sound effects, captions, transcription | `references/audio.md` |

+ | Cut, reframe or transform media; HeyGen recipes | `references/operations.md` |

+ | Treatments, realtime effects, overlays, reveals | `references/media-treatments.md` |

+ | Install, sign-in, providers, RAM ladders | `references/setup-providers.md` |

+ | Fades, gain, ducking, automation, effects, buses on placed tracks | `references/mixing.md` |

+ | Local commands: grade, cutout, loudness, beats | `references/local.md` |

+ | Remembered preferences | `references/memory.md` |