synthesia-avatar-video

synthesia-avatar-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (5,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making presenter-led videos with Synthesia, an AI service that creates scripted videos using digital avatars and voices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan scenes, choose avatars and voices, personalize templates, create API-driven video batches, and manage translations, consent, and usage rights.
Why use it?
It helps turn business, training, product, and onboarding content into consistent presenter videos, including localized versions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan scenes, choose avatars and voices, personalize templates, create API-driven video batches, and manage translations, consent, and usage rights.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/synthesia-avatar-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill synthesia-avatar-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 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,403 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 37
    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 $0.00073 $0.05403
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02701
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00540

Measured 9d ago against content hash bef78c48393b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesia-avatar-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/synthesia-avatar-video/SKILL.md · 425 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 425 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesia avatar video production

Use Synthesia when the job is a business, training, product, sales, onboarding, knowledge-base, or localized presenter video where a controlled avatar performance, brand consistency, and scalable variants matter more than cinematic freeform motion. Treat Synthesia as a synthetic presenter studio and templated video automation system, not as a general text-to-video model.

Facts in this skill were verified against official Synthesia documentation, API reference, pricing, and policy pages on 2026-07-10. Re-check volatile items before committing money or a production launch: plan access, quotas, supported languages, avatar IDs, voice IDs, endpoint schemas, template variables, processing times, pricing, and policy text.

Route the work

Use this skill for:

  • Synthesia Studio videos made manually from scenes, scripts, templates, avatars, brand kits, media, captions, and translations.
  • Synthesia API videos from scratch through POST /v2/videos.
  • Synthesia API videos from published templates through POST /v2/videos/fromTemplate.
  • Personalized batches where variables drive names, roles, product details, CTAs, languages, or avatar choices.
  • Custom avatar, Personal Avatar, Studio Avatar, stock avatar, and voice/likeness consent decisions.
  • QA for lip sync, script pacing, pronunciation, avatar framing, identity disclosure, localization, download custody, and policy fit.

Do not use Synthesia as the primary tool when the user needs:

  • multi-shot cinematic generative video, camera moves, physics, or photoreal B-roll generated from prompts;
  • face-swap or lip-sync onto arbitrary footage outside Synthesia's supported avatar system;
  • an avatar of a real person without documented consent;
  • political/current-events persuasion, deceptive impersonation, sensitive identity claims, or paid social ads with stock avatars unless policy and written consent requirements are satisfied.

Source-backed operating facts

Label facts separately from heuristics in your production notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 425 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 · 425 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A bef78c48393b

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synthesia-avatar-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 5,403 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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