HeyGen CLI — model skill for ads & UGC
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Official HeyGen CLI built for agents: avatar videos, translations and bulk jobs as JSON commands.
- Type: Model · Ads & UGC
- Slug:
heygen-cli - Status: live
- Publisher: HeyGen (vendor)
- License: Apache-2.0
- Source: https://github.com/heygen-com/heygen-cli
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex
- Requires: HEYGEN_API_KEY
- Adoption: 164 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)
What it does
A single static binary exposing the HeyGen API as agent-friendly commands: JSON on stdout, structured errors, stable exit codes and --request-schema / --response-schema for self-description. Agents use it to render avatar videos, translate many ads in one loop or wire HeyGen into CI; it pairs with heygen-com/skills.
Use when
- batch-render avatar ads from a script list
- translate 100 ads in a loop
- call HeyGen from a pipeline
Not for
- users without a HeyGen API plan
Install
- Claude Code:
curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash - Codex:
curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash
Models it drives: HeyGen avatars, HeyGen translation
More ads & UGC skills
- Ecommerce video ad skills for Claude Code and AI agents: Product videos that sell on TikTok, TikTok Shop, Reels and Meta: angle, hook, format, script, rules, variants.
- Turn a product into scroll-stopping video hooks: The first 3 seconds of a product video: frame, line and text that agree, from a 70-line hook bank.
- Open-source alternative to Arcads: AI UGC ads: AI UGC ads with an AI actor holding your real product: face, voice and label locked, labelled.
- Turn one winning ad into a creative testing plan: How many ads to test, what to change, when to judge, kill or scale — concepts Meta sees as different.
- Turn a product into a dropshipping guide reel: The faceless "comment GUIDE" reel: product hook, a marker pointing at cost and price on a laptop, a skyline ending.
- Turn product photos into a viral product hook: Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt