# horizontal-scroll-scenes

A skill for chapters that travel left to right while the reader scrolls down. One pure function turns scrollY into scene, dwell and move.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 367 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes

## What it does

Scroll position is the only state here. The `travel(sp)` function takes `scrollY / (scrollHeight - innerHeight)` and returns `{i, dw, f}`: which scene, how far into its dwell, how far through the move. Camera, wipe line, text and index are all written from that triple, so reverse scrolling, scrollbar drags, anchor jumps and a reload at depth land on the same frame. Nothing is remembered, everything is derived.

The skill lists rules with the failure each one prevents. It covers the dwell versus transition budget (`DWELL` 1.15, `MOVE` 0.85, one scene per two screens), a burn-wipe or pan between scenes, chapter index and progress UI, glide-to-scene links that skip intermediate scenes, keyboard handling and reduced-motion behaviour. The demo is Vanilla JavaScript with DOM/CSS and inline SVG; the source is three.js. The state machine is the same in both.

Normalise by `scrollHeight - innerHeight`, never a hard-coded pixel height. A phone's collapsing URL bar changes `innerHeight` mid-scroll and a pixel map drifts. Wheel hijacking and `scroll-snap` are ruled out on purpose: they break touch, trackpad momentum and find-in-page.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill horizontal-scroll-scenes -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill horizontal-scroll-scenes -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill horizontal-scroll-scenes -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills horizontal-scroll-scenes
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill horizontal-scroll-scenes -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/web-design/horizontal-scroll-scenes
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill horizontal-scroll-scenes -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/horizontal-scroll-scenes/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build chapters that advance sideways while the page scrolls down
- keep the right frame after a reload at depth
- cross between scenes without a double-exposed camera
- jump to a later scene by link without strobing through the ones between
- handle keyboard input and reduced motion

## Example prompts
- Build the horizontal scenes with the horizontal-scroll-scenes skill: eight chapters, dwell and move as the rules describe
- Rework this slider onto native scroll with horizontal-scroll-scenes so a reload at depth keeps the frame
- Add a glide-to-scene link and a chapter index per horizontal-scroll-scenes

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: horizontal-scroll-scenes
description: Build scene-by-scene chapters that advance left to right on one fixed stage while the user scrolls vertically, with native scroll as the only input. One pure function turns scrollY into scene, dwell and move, so forward, reverse, scrollbar drags, fast skips and reload at depth all land on the right frame. Covers dwell versus transition budgets, a burn-wipe or pan between scenes, chapter index and progress UI, glide-to-scene links that skip intermediate scenes, keyboard and reduced-motion behaviour. Use for horizontal scrollytelling, multi-scene product tours, "scroll down to travel sideways", chapter carousels driven by the wheel, or any piece where a wheel-jacked slider keeps breaking on touch, keys, refresh or back.
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# Horizontal Scroll Scenes

**The mechanism:** scroll position is the only state. One pure function turns `scrollY / (scrollHeight - innerHeight)` into `{scene, dwell 0→1, move 0→1}` every frame, and everything on screen (camera, wipe line, craft clock, text, index) is written from that triple. Nothing remembers where you were, so every beat is a place on the page.

This is what Kibori does, and it is not a `translateX` slider. Verified by running it: the page is a `1742vh` native-scroll track (15,678 px at 1440×900); a fixed stage holds one WebGL world whose camera travels 0 → 49.7 world units left to right through eight stations; between stations a ragged burn line wipes from a frozen frame of the scene being left to the live scene already framed on the next. There is no wheel handler, no snap, no stored "current chapter". Reload at depth, scrollbar drag and anchor jumps work because state is derived, not accumulated.

Reach for `scroll-world-storytelling` or `build-threejs-scroll-worlds` for the story and 3D-world side, `gsap-scrolltrigger-storytelling` for pinned sticky sections, `scroll-progress-timeline` for a progress line. Reach for this when the deliverable is *discrete chapters with a resting beat each, laid along an X axis*, and the hard part is making that state machine survive reverse, skip and refresh. The demo is Vanilla JavaScript + DOM/CSS + inline SVG; the source is three.js. The state machine is identical.

## The pace: two weights and a track height
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