heygen

heygen is a skill for Claude Code from social-media-skills/skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (1,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making presenter videos with HeyGen, an AI video service that can create avatar-based talking-head videos. It also covers translating videos into different languages with matching mouth movements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for AI avatar videos, explainers, training, FAQs, faceless channels, spokesperson videos, and multilingual video versions.
Why use it?
It helps with scripted presenter videos when recording a person each time would be difficult or costly. It also supports repeated explanations, localization, and other work that needs consistent delivery.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the social-media-skills plugin — 106 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for AI avatar videos, explainers, training, FAQs, faceless channels, spokesperson videos, and multilingual video versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/social-media-skills/skills/heygen
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 social-media-skills/skills --skill heygen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install social-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,226 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00160 $0.01226
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00123

Measured 13d ago against content hash e78d16b73aae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

heygen 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 13d 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/heygen/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

heygen

The mini-skill for avatar / talking-head video with HeyGen — the counterpart producer to veo-3 (generative scenes) under the ai-video router. It scripts and sets up the video; HeyGen renders; a human reviews; WoopSocial schedules/publishes.

The POV: right tool for scaled scripted delivery, not personality

Avatars win for scaled, scripted, multilingual work — explainers, training, localization, FAQ, faceless channels, personalized sales at volume. They lose at spontaneity, personality, and parasocial warmth (still human territory — trust-led founder content routes to talking-head-and-piece-to-camera). Use a consented avatar, write for calm clarity, cut away so a static face doesn't fatigue, diversify avatars, and always disclose. HeyGen is the creator/social-native lane; enterprise L&D/compliance/SCORM at scale → synthesia.

Read these first

  1. brand-profile — look, audience, non-negotiables (and the avatar's demeanor).
  2. voice-builder — tone, so the script and voice sound like the brand.

The framework: TALK

(Depth: references/the-talk-framework.md.)

  • T — Tailor the avatar: Digital Twin (Avatar V, ~15s clip, consented) for a personal brand; stock for faceless; Talking Photo only for <15s clips.
  • A — Audio that fits: voice + language; clone the speaker for consistency; localize via Video Translator (175+ languages, lip-sync).
  • L — Lean script: conversational, one idea, short sentences, no tongue-twisters; open with the point.
  • K — Keep eyes moving: cut to B-roll (veo-3), screen-records, text, shot changes; the avatar is the spine, not the whole frame.

Pick the engine / type (verify-quarterly)

Avatar V (highest fidelity, twins, identity-stable over long videos) · Avatar IV (expressive default) · stock avatars (no likeness questions) · Talking Photo (<15s only). Localization is HeyGen's strongest use case. Full capabilities + API + pricing: references/heygen-2026-capabilities.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 13d ago First seen · 80 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A e78d16b73aae

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heygen is a skill published in the GitHub repository social-media-skills/skills (77 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,226 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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