Papercraft

papercraft

A Claude skill for building **silent vertical explainer reels that look hand-made** — one persistent paper world, cut-paper stickers, marker linework, and a mechanism you watch happen rather than get told about.

Renders to a 1080x1920 MP4 with **no audio**, so you record narration over the finished picture.

What it produces

Five or six scenes inside one physical world. An anchor object at fixed coordinates whose *state* changes. An accumulator that never resets — filed cards, ink layers, jar levels, a traced path — whose final state is the payoff. For research-led topics, a real screenshot of the paper mounted as a physical receipt with the publisher's own mark as a seal.

Install

Copy this directory to `~/.claude/skills/papercraft`, then start a new session.

~/.claude/skills/papercraft/
├── SKILL.md                     the workflow and its gates
├── references/
│   ├── LOOK.md                  world, bands, guards, stickers, type, colour, density
│   ├── MOTION.md                slam, pops, routes, focus, transitions, holds
│   ├── TRAPS.md                 every failure that shipped and had to be re-rendered
│   ├── GATES.md                 what to verify before calling it done
│   ├── MOTIFS.md                inventing the world; 48 spent motifs
│   ├── RECEIPT.md               mounting a real source as evidence
│   └── BRAND.md                 palette, fonts, logotype — how to make it yours
├── engine/                      kit.css, kit.js, FRAME-TEMPLATE.html
├── scripts/                     scaffold.py, build-kit.py
└── templates/                   dispatch and storyboard

Requires

• HyperFrames — npx hyperframes. The assemble-index.mjs and transitions.mjs scripts come from the faceless-explainer skill.
• GSAP 3.14.2 via CDN — one paused, seekable timeline per frame.
• ffmpeg — for pulling stills, which is most of the quality control.
• Four fonts, which you supply. None are bundled. See `references/