tavus-replica-video

tavus-replica-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (5,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making videos and live conversations with Tavus, using digital likenesses called Faces and configurable conversational agents called PALs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for AI presenter videos, talking-head clips, real-time avatar calls, personalized video, and consent-controlled likeness workflows.
Why use it?
It helps separate the visual likeness, behavior, voice, and real-time conversation setup so the right Tavus workflow is chosen.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for AI presenter videos, talking-head clips, real-time avatar calls, personalized video, and consent-controlled likeness workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/tavus-replica-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill tavus-replica-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 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,320 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 high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 272
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00059 $0.05320
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02660
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00532

Measured 9d ago against content hash a836123b0661, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tavus-replica-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/tavus-replica-video/SKILL.md · 409 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tavus replica video production

Use this skill when a task involves Tavus avatars, replicas, faces, PALs/personas, generated talking-head files, real-time conversational video agents, or Tavus-powered lip-synced presenter output.

Documented facts in this skill were checked against official Tavus docs, policies, and pricing on 2026-07-10. Treat API names, model names, plan limits, stock replica availability, language support, pricing, and policy wording as volatile; verify them again before committing spend, launch scope, or regulated workflows.

The current Tavus object model

Tavus docs now use:

  • Face: the on-screen likeness and voice rendered by Phoenix. A custom face can be trained from a video URL or image URL. Stock faces/replicas can also be used.
  • PAL: behavior, knowledge, pipeline, LLM/TTS/perception/turn-taking/conferencing configuration for real-time CVI.
  • Conversation: a real-time video call/session with a PAL and face.

Legacy terms still appear in APIs and production requests:

  • replica_id in the Video Generation API is the Face ID returned by /v2/faces.
  • /v2/personas, persona_id, /v2/replicas, default_replica_id, and related aliases may still exist for backward compatibility.

Do not force the user to rename their mental model. Translate cleanly: "your Tavus replica ID is the face ID needed by the video endpoint."

Choose the Tavus path first

Pick the path by deliverable, not by habit.

  1. One-way talking-head file: use async Video Generation. Call POST /v2/videos with replica_id plus either script or audio_url; poll GET /v2/videos/{video_id} until ready, then capture download_url, stream_url, and hosted_url.
  2. Interactive AI human / live agent: use CVI. Create or select a Face, create or select a PAL, then call POST /v2/conversations with face_id and pal_id.
  3. Need a new likeness: create/train the Face first with POST /v2/faces. Use video training for highest fidelity and customer-facing work; use image training when speed/setup simplicity matters more than personalized expressions.
  4. Need exact audio, approved voiceover, or non-Tavus TTS: use the async Video API with audio_url rather than script, or use CVI echo mode when the app supplies utterances in real time.
  5. Need an existing speaker video re-lip-synced: Tavus Terms define LipSync as a platform feature, but do not assume an endpoint or schema from memory. Check the current OpenAPI contract before promising this path. If no documented endpoint is available, route through async avatar generation with audio_url or choose another documented lip-sync provider.

Read the full file on GitHub · 409 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 · 409 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A a836123b0661

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tavus-replica-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 5,320 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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