hedra-character-video

hedra-character-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (4,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating videos in which digital characters speak, sing, react, or gesture using Hedra's avatar and lip-sync tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for talking avatars, lip-sync clips, motion avatars, lessons, product presentations, and live avatar experiences.
Why use it?
It helps match a character-performance task to the right Hedra model and prepare the required image, audio, or script inputs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for talking avatars, lip-sync clips, motion avatars, lessons, product presentations, and live avatar experiences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/hedra-character-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill hedra-character-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,462 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 16
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.04462
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02231
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00892
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00446

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0c015969519b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hedra-character-video scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/providers/avatar-video/hedra-character-video/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hedra character video production

Use Hedra when the job is fundamentally a character performance: a still or generated character needs to speak, sing, react, gesture, host a lesson, sell a product, or participate as a real-time avatar. Treat Hedra as an audio-driven performance system first, not as a generic cinematic video model.

Volatile facts in this skill were verified from Hedra first-party pages on 2026-07-10. Re-check Hedra's model list, pricing, duration limits, subscription/API access, and legal pages before paid or compliance-sensitive production.

Documented facts to anchor decisions

Verified 2026-07-10:

  • Hedra's public API base URL in the docs is https://api.hedra.com/web-app/public, and calls require an X-API-Key header. API access documentation says users need a Hedra account, a paid plan for API access, and an API key from the API profile page.
  • The API avatar guide documents two Hedra-native avatar models:
    • Hedra Avatar, model ID 26f0fc66-152b-40ab-abed-76c43df99bc8, for talking-head/lip-sync clips up to 10 minutes.
    • Hedra Omnia, model ID ab372b84-432f-44f5-bacc-c2542465f712, for motion avatar videos with full-body movement up to 8 seconds.
  • Both documented avatar models require an image and audio input. Avatar video length is driven by audio length; long-form avatar generation should poll status for progress and eta_sec.
  • The app workflow for UGC avatar videos accepts an image from upload or Hedra generation, audio from upload/recording/AI generation, a chosen avatar model, aspect ratio, resolution, and batch size. Hedra's own app tips favor front-facing portraits, high resolution, clean audio, and short tests before long runs.
  • File specs list .wav and .mp3 audio, a 10 MB maximum file size for all file types, a free-plan max audio length of 20 seconds, and paid-plan max audio/video length up to 10 minutes depending on model. The same page lists Hedra Avatar at 10 minutes and Hedra Omnia at 8 seconds.
  • Hedra's video model guide frames Hedra Avatar as audio-driven avatar work with image + audio input, reliable lip sync, long-form dialogue, and a 7 credits/second listing; it frames Hedra Omnia as short cinematic dialogue with text + audio input, camera control, lifelike motion/emotion, and a 15 credits/second listing. Treat these credit figures as volatile.
  • Hedra API generation supports type: "video", ai_model_id, start_keyframe_id or start_keyframe_url, audio_id or inline audio_generation, generated_video_inputs.text_prompt, aspect_ratio, resolution, duration_ms, batch_size, and status polling at /generations/{generation_id}/status.
  • Hedra API text-to-speech supports type: "text_to_speech", voice_id, text, optional stability, speed, and language. The app docs mention ElevenLabs V3, ElevenLabs V2, and MiniMax as selectable audio models and speech-control tags for tone, reaction, volume/energy, and pacing/rhythm.
  • Hedra documents voice cloning by uploading an audio sample, submitting a voice_clone generation, and using the returned voice asset as voice_id.
  • Hedra Studio documents speaker selection for multi-character images: place and size a speaker indicator over the character that should speak. The selected character speaks, sings, or performs from the audio input.
  • Hedra Live Avatar is a separate real-time path using LiveKit plus Hedra, with environment variables for LiveKit, Hedra, and often OpenAI. The guide documents @hedra/create-hedra-avatar, livekit-agents[hedra]~=1.0, HEDRA_AVATAR_ID, and session behavior in LiveKit rooms.
  • Hedra's acceptable-use policy prohibits illegal use, harming minors, misleading false content, personal information about people other than yourself except for specific historical/public-right contexts, non-consensual impersonation/deepfakes, sensitive personal information, sexual explicit content, harassment/defamation, and several high-stakes automated decision or discriminatory uses.
  • Hedra's privacy and biometric policies say uploaded/generated user content can include photos, audio/voice, videos, metadata, and derived data; avatar/image/audio features may derive biometric data such as facial geometry templates or information from audio/voice recordings; biometric data is used to provide features and for legal compliance, with consent where required by applicable biometric law.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 268 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 0c015969519b

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hedra-character-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 4,462 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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