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Run 1Bars against a target“In talk.mp4 show meeting hours per week against a 4-hour target.”
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 Against a Target

Bars grow against a target line, and the ones that go over it turn red.

$9.99once, yours to keep

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Adds bars measured against a target line to a talking-head video: bars that go over the target are marked, so overruns jump out. 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 compares figures to a goal, a budget or a limit and wants overruns to stand out.

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Bars Against a Target

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

Read https://recaply.co/skills/target-bars-overlay/install.md and follow it to install the target-bars-overlay skill from target-bars-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 Against a Target is for

What you get

  • Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept
  • A target line runs across the chart; bars grow as each figure is said and any bar that passes the line takes the warning colour
  • 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5

Good fit

  • When someone compares figures to a goal, a budget or a limit and wants overruns to stand out

Not for

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

About this skill

You say

In talk.mp4 show meeting hours per week against a 4-hour target.

It said back

I rendered talk-graphics.mp4: 1920x1080, 24.3 s, 30 fps. The sound is the speaker's, unchanged. I checked the layout and it reported no problems, but I didn't watch the rendered video.

The chart. "Meeting hours per week" has two bars, Before at 12 h and After at 7.2 h. A dashed target line sits at 4 h and both bars go past it, so both take the warning colour. The speaker slides to the right half and the chart fills the left. It uses the paper look.

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What it did in run 1

  1. target-bars-overlay
  2. ls -la && S=.claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts && node $S/check.mjs
  3. ls -la && node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/check.mjs
  4. echo '{"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json"}' > overlay.json && node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --words
  5. cat > overlay.json <<'E' { "video": "talk.mp4", "transcript": "talk.json", "look": "paper", "beats": [ { "beat": "bars", "cue": "12 people", "title": "Meeting hours per week", "target": { "value": 4, "label": "Target 4 h" }, "bars": [{ "label": "Before", "value": "12 h" }, { "label": "After", "value": "7.2 h" }], "cues": ["12 people", "dropped by 40%"], "until": "old Monday call" } ] } E S=.claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs; node $S overlay.json --face 5 && node $S overlay.json --check
  6. ./face-check.png
  7. ./overlay.json
  8. node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face 5
  9. ./face-check.png
  10. ./overlay.json
  11. node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  12. ./overlay-check.png
  13. ./overlay.json
  14. node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check && node .claude/skills/target-bars-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json && ls -la *.mp4
  15. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 1 min 45 s · $0.14 of API use

Questions

Is Bars Against a Target free?

No. Bars Against a Target 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 Against a Target?

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

What do I get when I buy Bars Against a Target?

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 Against a Target?

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 ./target-bars-overlay with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Bars Against a Target?

Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept. A target line runs across the chart; bars grow as each figure is said and any bar that passes the line takes the warning colour. 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5.

What does Bars Against a Target need?

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

How big is Bars Against a Target?

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 45 s to 1 min 45 s and $0.14 to $0.14 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 Against a Target to use it?

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