# Talking heads & avatars: agent skills for AI avatar and talking head videos > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. AI avatars, lip sync, presenters, podcasts and dialogue videos. 27 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation. ## How-to tutorials - [How to make a talking avatar video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-a-talking-avatar-video.md): A person (from a headshot, or generated) speaks your script to camera with lip-sync, in any language. ## Skills (27) ### Effects (4) - [3D Camera Captions](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-camera-3d-captions.md) — HeyGen: Captions that live in 3D around a talking head: the camera flies through the words, heroes pass behind the speaker. - [Cinematic Caption](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/cinematic-caption-audrey.md) — Audrey, beta: Designed editorial captions for HyperFrames: scored hero words, subject-aware depth, glass type — not a subtitle strip. - [Jump Cut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/jump-cut.md) — varg: Cut out a stretch inside one continuous shot, so the subject visibly jumps. Removes pauses, adds pace. - [Jump-Zoom Punch-In](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/jump-zoom-punch-in.md) — HeyGen: Hide a jump cut by scaling the next segment 110–130%. Reads as a second camera angle in talking heads. ### Styles (1) - [Halftone Collage B-roll](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/gbro-collage-broll.md) — pyang5166, beta: Editorial halftone paper-collage B-roll from one line of script, with three approval gates before any video spend. ### Guides (2) - [Spoken Script Writer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-text-spoken-script.md) — dlazyai, beta: Writes short-video talking-head scripts in a fixed 7-step story structure for a personal brand - [SmartCut (capcut-ai-editor)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/capcut-smartcut-mcp.md) — mrbuslov: MCP that reads CapCut auto-captions to cut silences and duplicate takes right inside your CapCut project. ### Workflows (14) - [Character Keynote](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-keynote.md) — varg, beta: One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5. - [Consistent Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-consistent-characters.md) — varg, beta: Multi-scene ads where the same actors, outfits and location hold in every cut: cards, composites, Kling v3 clips. - [Turn a script into a two-person podcast video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-podcast-video.md) — varg, beta: Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio. - [fal UGC](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-ugc.md) — fal: Script and generate UGC-style creator ads: talking heads, demos, testimonials, unboxings and reactions. - [Talking Head Production](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md) — inference.sh: Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut. - [AI Podcast Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md) — inference.sh: Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching. - [Lanshu AI Presenter Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/lanshu-ai-presenter-video.md) — Lanshu: Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles. - [Chengfeng Videocut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md) — chengfeng: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export. - [Herk Edit Kit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/herk-edit-kit.md) — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics. - [OpenMontage](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage.md) — Calesthio: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 pipelines (8 edit your footage), 100+ tools, ~140 skills. Run your agent in it. - [video-use](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-use.md) — Browser Use: Drop raw takes in a folder, chat with your agent, get final.mp4: transcript-first cuts, grade, subtitles, overlays. - [claude-youtube-editor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-youtube-editor.md) — Hasan Aboul Hasan: Record a talking head; Claude Code does the cut, Remotion visuals, voice, SFX, thumbnail and YouTube upload. - [ghost-editor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ghost-editor.md) — kurbaitaev: Talking-head reel editor in your agent: best takes, face-safe word captions, motion graphics, 7 styles. - [SeeCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/seecut.md) — YeJe-cpu: Talking-head and AI-avatar fine cut that watches its own render with Gemini and iterates up to three versions. ### Models & tools (6) - [varg AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-ai.md) — varg: The official varg skill: videos, images, speech and music through one API key, rendered in the cloud or locally. - [AI Avatar Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md) — inference.sh: Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice. - [P-Video Avatar](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-p-video-avatar.md) — inference.sh: Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio. - [VectCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/vectcut.md) — sun-guannan, beta: Drives the VectCut editing API: talking-head cuts, remixes, e-commerce ads, subtitles, effects, cloud render - [Jimeng Dream Actor via dLazy](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-jimeng-dream-actor.md) — dlazyai, beta: Animate a still character image into an action video with Jimeng Dream Actor, through the dLazy CLI. - [OmniHuman 1.5 via dLazy](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-jimeng-omnihuman-1-5.md) — dlazyai, beta: Turn a portrait photo and an audio track into a talking digital-human video with OmniHuman 1.5, via the dLazy CLI.