media-use

media-use is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 149 tokens per session (7,687 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A media workflow for HyperFrames projects that finds or generates audio, images, icons, logos, voices, colour grades, and related media, then records the chosen files. HyperFrames is a media playback system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve background music, sound effects, images, icons, brand assets, voiceovers, and other production media.
Why use it?
It gives a project one process for locating or creating media and preserving which assets were used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node skills/media-use/scripts/resolve.mjs --type lut --intent "teal orange blockbuster" --project . --json.

Part of the agents-mcp plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to resolve background music, sound effects, images, icons, brand assets, voiceovers, and other production media.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/media-use

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,687 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00149 $0.07687
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.03075
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.01537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00769

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1f5f8ab0839f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

media-use scanned grade C with 2 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 44 executable files (audio/scripts/audio.mjs, audio/scripts/audio.test.mjs, audio/scripts/heygen-tts.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash
plugins/agents-mcp/skills/media-use/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

media-use

The media OS for HyperFrames: resolve · generate · operate · remember, every media type, one skill, zero context noise.

Setup — install heygen first (free-usage path)

curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash
heygen update             # free usage needs the OAuth-capable CLI (v0.3.0+)
heygen auth login --oauth # OAuth = free subscription credits; --api-key bills API credits

This unlocks the FREE path for bgm/sfx/image/icon catalog search, TTS (voice), and avatar videos. Sign in with --oauth — the free allowance rides on the OAuth session (an API key bills API credits instead). media-use requires heygen >= v0.3.0 uniformly (the OAuth free-usage path needs it), so --doctor nudges older CLIs to update even for API-key-only use. Before resolving anything, verify setup with:

node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/resolve.mjs --doctor

What it owns (the gaps HyperFrames leaves)

HyperFrames owns media playback; media-use owns everything else. Each row is enforced by scripts/lib/coverage.test.mjs so the claim can't rot.

HyperFrames gap media-use owns it via
Audio-only, no image/icon resolve --type image|icon (heygen asset search)
No third-party brand logos resolve --type logo (svgl → simple-icons → GitHub org avatar → domain favicon)
No voice / audio generation resolve --type voice (HeyGen TTS free-usage path; optional local Kokoro) + the audio engine (audio/scripts/audio.mjs)
Scattered/duplicated audio engine one consolidated engine under audio/ (hyperframes-media retired)
No agent media-ops (cut/reframe/transform) references/operations.md + resolve --from to register outputs
No transcript-driven cutting scripts/transcript-cut.mjs compiles word-timestamp edits into cut lists
No auto-duck / publish loudness scripts/audio-duck.mjs + references/operations.md loudnorm/sidechain recipes
No cross-project memory global content-addressed cache + auto-promote (~/.media)
No color-grade authoring resolve --type grade emits a paste-ready data-color-grading block; resolve --type lut freezes validated .cube files
No image generation RAM-graded local mflux (FLUX) via scripts/lib/mflux-provider.mjs, codex image_gen upsell (scripts/lib/codex-provider.mjs)
No video generation resolve --type video — HeyGen avatar video first (free-usage path, sign-in nudge on auth failure), local LTX fallback (videogen in scripts/lib/local-models.mjs); image-to-video, photo-avatar, dub/translate remain manual heygen CLI recipes (references/operations.md)
Weak local-model defaults HeyGen free-usage path via the heygen CLI; local open-source tools only as opt-in alternatives (scripts/lib/local-run.mjs)

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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. 4d ago First seen · 456 lines · 149 tokens per session scan C 1f5f8ab0839f

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media-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 7,687 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-19.