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Run 1Bars with notes“In talk.mp4 show hours before and after with a note "written updates" under the drop.”
Runs in
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
  • GitHub Copilot
  • OpenCode
Generates with
Your agent's model
Tested with
Claude Code 2.1.322Claude Sonnet 5.51 real run, 9 Nov
Needs
Node 22+Chromeffmpeg
Licence
Recaply licence

Bars With Notes

Bars grow in turn and a short note appears under the one that needs explaining.

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Adds a bar chart to a talking-head video with short notes under the bars that need explaining, each note landing just after its bar. Timed to the words they say, on their own footage, with their sound kept; 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5. Renders locally with Chrome and ffmpeg: no video model, no key and no cost. Use when someone walks through figures and explains a spike or dip in one of them.

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Bars With Notes

After the download, ask your agent to add it, or run the line yourself.

Read https://recaply.co/skills/bar-notes-overlay/install.md and follow it to install the bar-notes-overlay skill from bar-notes-overlay.zip.

Paste it into your agent. It reads our install steps, finds the ZIP you downloaded and adds the skill for you.

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Who Bars With Notes is for

What you get

  • Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept
  • Bars grow as said; under the odd one out, a small note in the accent says why (a sale week, a holiday, a launch)
  • 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5

Good fit

  • When someone walks through figures and explains a spike or dip in one of them

Not for

  • Footage with nobody speaking
  • Cutting or re-editing the video itself

About this skill

You say

In talk.mp4 show hours before and after with a note "written updates" under the drop.

It said back

I rendered the video with a before/after bar chart and a "Written updates" note under the "After" bar. It's talk-graphics.mp4 in the work folder, 1920x1080, 24.3 s. The sound is hers and unchanged.

  • Timing: The chart runs from 7.7 s to 23.6 s. The "Before" bar (600 h) grows on "600 hours" and the "After" bar (360 h) on "dropped by 40%". The note shows just after the "After" bar.
  • Layout: The chart has the title "Meeting hours a year". It sits on the left half and she slides to the right half, so her face stays clear. The look is paper. The check found no layout problems.
  • The 360 h is my calculation. She says 600 hours a year and a 40% drop, but never gives the new total. I worked it out as 600 × 0.6 = 360. If you'd rather not show a number she didn't say, I can make the "After" bar read "−40%" instead.
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What it did in run 1

  1. bar-notes-overlay
  2. ls -a . && S=.claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay && node $S/scripts/check.mjs
  3. ls -a && node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/check.mjs
  4. echo '{"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json"}' > overlay.json && node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --words
  5. cat > overlay.json <<'E' {"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json","look":"paper","face":[50,32], "beats":[{"beat":"bars","cue":"that's 600 hours","title":"Meeting hours a year","bars":[{"label":"Before","value":"600 h"},{"label":"After","value":"360 h"}],"cues":["600 hours","dropped by 40%"],"notes":[{"bar":1,"text":"Written updates"}],"highlight":1,"until":"missed the old"}]} E node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face >/dev/null; node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  6. ./overlay.json
  7. node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  8. ./overlay-check.png
  9. node .claude/skills/bar-notes-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json 2>&1 | tail -5
  10. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 1 min 30 s · $0.11 of API use

Questions

Is Bars With Notes free?

No. Bars With Notes costs $9.99 once and stays in your Recaply account, or it comes with the Recaply plan ($19.99 a month), which opens every premium skill and prompt.

Which agents can use Bars With Notes?

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

What do I get when I buy Bars With Notes?

A ZIP of the whole skill folder (105 KB): the SKILL.md your agent follows and its 12 other files, the references, templates and scripts it uses. You download it from this page whenever you need it, and install it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. The Recaply plan opens it too, with every other premium skill and prompt.

How do I install Bars With Notes?

Buy it, then download the ZIP from this page. For Claude Code, unzip it into .claude/skills/ in your project. For Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, unzip it and run npx skills add ./bar-notes-overlay with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Bars With Notes?

Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept. Bars grow as said; under the odd one out, a small note in the accent says why (a sale week, a holiday, a launch). 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5.

What does Bars With Notes need?

Node 22+, Chrome and ffmpeg, and no API key. Each use costs nothing beyond your agent.

How big is Bars With Notes?

13 files, about 79,975 tokens in all. The SKILL.md is about 2,312 tokens, and your agent reads it only when the job fits.

What does a run cost?

Our 1 runs took 1 min 30 s to 1 min 30 s and $0.11 to $0.11 of API use each, in Claude Code with claude-sonnet-5-5. On a Claude plan, a run counts toward your usage instead.

Do I have to name Bars With Notes to use it?

Type /bar-notes-overlay first to make sure it loads. Without it, Claude Code may judge a small job simple enough to do without the skill.