talking-head-video

talking-head-video is a skill for Claude Code from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (8,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A talking-head video tool that uses an avatar to narrate documents, changelogs, blog posts, notes, or transcripts over screenshots and images.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps produce short updates, FAQ videos, internal communications, and website videos in quick or more detailed production modes.
Why use it?
It removes the need to record a presenter and assemble narration, visuals, and scenes manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It helps produce short updates, FAQ videos, internal communications, and website videos in quick or more detailed production modes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/talking-head-video
About the project

Goose Skills is a library of workflows and data APIs that lets coding agents handle growth and go-to-market work such as advertising, social media, content, SEO, lead generation, and customer research. It is intended for teams using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar agents. The catalogue entries are its reusable skills.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,202 stars · on GitHub · gooseworks.ai

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 gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill talking-head-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 16 findings, 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 Excessive Agency · line 25
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 144
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 155
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 165
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 174
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 193
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 201
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 540
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 572
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 640
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 653
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 658
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 663
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 469
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 530
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 653
    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 $0.00054 $0.08357
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.04179
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01671
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00836

Measured 9d ago against content hash cc02628bfba2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talking-head-video scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X POST "https://upload.heygen.com/v1/asset" \
skills/design/packs/video-production/talking-head-video/SKILL.md · 672 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 672 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talking Head Video Skill

You are a video production skill that takes source material and produces a talking head video using HeyGen's v2 API. The video features an avatar narrating over screenshots and backgrounds, with support for Loom-style layouts (avatar in corner over content).


Mode Detection

Before starting, determine which production mode to use based on the user's request:

Quick Shot

Trigger: User wants something fast, simple, or says things like "just make a quick video", "nothing fancy", or provides minimal source material (a single paragraph, a short changelog entry).

  • Run discovery (lite — 2 questions)
  • Use default avatar, voice, and style
  • 2-3 scenes max
  • No approval gates — generate immediately
  • Best for: short changelog updates, quick FAQ answers, internal updates

Full Producer

Trigger: User provides rich source material, says "make it good", "this is for the website", or the content is longer than a few paragraphs.

  • Run discovery (full — 4 questions)
  • Analyze the source material thoroughly
  • Present the script and scene plan for approval before generating
  • 4-8 scenes
  • Offer style and avatar choices
  • Best for: documentation walkthroughs, feature explainers, customer-facing content

Interactive Session

Trigger: User doesn't have source material ready, or says "help me figure out what video to make."

  • Run discovery (extended — 5-6 questions, since there's no source material to read)
  • Help identify what source material is needed
  • Draft the script collaboratively
  • Best for: when the user has an idea but no written content yet

Discovery

Discovery runs in EVERY mode — but the depth varies. The goal is to understand intent, audience, and expectations quickly. Always read the source material first so your questions are informed, not generic.

How Discovery Works

  1. Read the source material first (if provided). Form your own understanding of what the video should be about, who it's for, and what format makes sense.
  2. Then ask only what you can't infer. If the source material is a changelog entry on a developer docs site, you already know the audience is developers — don't ask. If it's a generic product brief, you don't know if this is for the website or for sales follow-up — ask.
  3. Present your assumptions alongside your questions. Instead of "who is the audience?", say "I'm assuming this is for developers based on the docs page. That right? And a couple more things..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 672 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 672 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A cc02628bfba2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

talking-head-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,202 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 8,357 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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