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Run 1Timeline reveal“Put the quarter in talk.mp4 on a timeline: the Monday call, written updates, the 15-minute call, the result.”
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

Timeline Reveal

Dates or stages land along a line one after another as the speaker says them.

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Adds a timeline to a talking-head video: dates or stages land along a line one after another as they are said, and the one they stress carries the accent. 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 tells a history, a plan or a run of dates (how a business started, the stages of a project, what happens next).

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Timeline Reveal

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

Read https://recaply.co/skills/timeline-overlay/install.md and follow it to install the timeline-overlay skill from timeline-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 Timeline Reveal is for

What you get

  • Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept
  • A line draws across the frame and each date lands on it with a short line of text as they say it
  • 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5

Good fit

  • When someone tells a history, a plan or a run of dates (how a business started, the stages of a project, what happens next)

Not for

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

About this skill

You say

Put the quarter in talk.mp4 on a timeline: the Monday call, written updates, the 15-minute call, the result.

It said back

I rendered the timeline over talk.mp4. The output is talk-graphics.mp4, 1920x1080 at 30 fps and 24.3 s long. The sound is the speaker's own and unchanged. The check reported no layout warnings, and I looked at the settled frame, which reads cleanly.

The timeline is one full-frame beat in the paper look, running from 6.7 s to 24.2 s. Each event lands as its words are said:

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What it did in run 1

  1. timeline-overlay
  2. ls -la && S=.claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts && node $S/check.mjs
  3. ls -la && node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/check.mjs
  4. echo '{"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json","beats":[]}' > overlay.json && node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --words
  5. cat > overlay.json <<'E' { "video": "talk.mp4", "transcript": "talk.json", "look": "paper", "beats": [ { "beat": "timeline", "cue": "every Monday", "place": "full", "events": [ { "when": "Monday", "text": "12 people, 1 hour" }, { "when": "Friday", "text": "Written updates" }, { "when": "Stuck", "text": "15-minute call" }, { "when": "One quarter", "text": "Meeting time down 40%" } ], "cues": ["every Monday", "Written updates on Friday", "15-minute call", "After one quarter"], "focus": 3, "until": "old Monday call" } ] } E node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face >/dev/null; node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  6. ./face-check.png
  7. ./overlay.json
  8. node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face 5
  9. ./face-check.png
  10. ./overlay.json
  11. node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  12. ./overlay-check.png
  13. node .claude/skills/timeline-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json && ls -la *.mp4
  14. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 1 min 33 s · $0.13 of API use

Questions

Is Timeline Reveal free?

No. Timeline Reveal 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 Timeline Reveal?

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

What do I get when I buy Timeline Reveal?

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 Timeline Reveal?

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 ./timeline-overlay with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Timeline Reveal?

Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept. A line draws across the frame and each date lands on it with a short line of text as they say it. 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5.

What does Timeline Reveal need?

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

How big is Timeline Reveal?

13 files, about 79,959 tokens in all. The SKILL.md is about 2,297 tokens, and your agent reads it only when the job fits.

What does a run cost?

Our 1 runs took 1 min 33 s to 1 min 33 s and $0.13 to $0.13 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 Timeline Reveal to use it?

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