# How to pair diagrams with a video skill to explain a GitHub repo with diagram-design

Repo: [cathrynlavery/diagram-design](https://github.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design) | Difficulty: Advanced | Time: 1 hour | Basis: Seen in the wild

Use the diagram skill alongside HyperFrames to turn a repo README into a short explainer video.

**Who it is for:** Maintainer or creator who wants a quick explainer video for a GitHub project without editing footage

**The problem:** Explaining how a repo works takes a written walkthrough most visitors never read.

**The outcome:** A short explainer video for a repo where the architecture scenes come from diagrams drawn by the skill.

## Steps

1. Install the video tooling the way the field post describes: claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes
2. Run: claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes
3. Run: npx skills add cathrynlavery/diagram-design
4. Ask Claude Code to read the repo README, plan the scenes and draw the diagrams, then render the video.

## Prompt to paste into your agent

```text
Make a 45-second explainer video for this GitHub repo: <repo URL>. Read the README, state in one sentence what it does, use diagram-design for the architecture scenes, and tell me which scenes you were least sure about.
```

## Caveat

The video side depends on a separate project (HyperFrames) with its own requirements. The prompt shape comes from a community post, not this README, so expect to adjust it.

## Seen in the wild

- X (Oct 2026): https://x.com/i/web/status/2110683351489409207

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