HeyGen Avatar Video Skills — workflow skill for ads & UGC

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Official HeyGen skills: create your avatar, make presenter videos with the v3 Video Agent, translate with lip-sync.

Type: Workflow · Ads & UGC
Slug: heygen-avatar-video-skills
Status: live
Publisher: HeyGen (vendor)
License: MIT
Source: https://github.com/heygen-com/skills
Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
Requires: HeyGen API key or HeyGen account (MCP OAuth), GitHub CLI 2.90+ for gh skill install
Adoption: 526 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)

What it does

HeyGen's three agent skills. heygen-avatar builds a talking avatar of you or a persona; heygen-video runs the v3 Video Agent pipeline (frame check, prompt engineering, avatar and voice selection) for presenter-led ads, product demos and personalized outreach videos; heygen-translate dubs a video into other languages with lip-sync. Works over the hosted HeyGen MCP or the HeyGen CLI/API.

Use when

talking-avatar ad or product demo
personalized video message at scale
translate an ad with lip-sync

Not for

product-only b-roll ads
cloning someone without consent

Install

Claude Code: npx skills add heygen-com/skills -a claude-code && claude mcp add --transport http heygen https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/v1/
Codex: npx skills add heygen-com/skills -a codex
Cursor: npx skills add heygen-com/skills -a cursor
Gemini CLI: npx skills add heygen-com/skills -a gemini-cli
Any agent, with the vargai CLI: vargai install heygen-avatar-video-skills

Models it drives: HeyGen Video Agent v3, HeyGen avatars

More ads & UGC skills

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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.

Any agent with a terminal: curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh (Windows: irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), then vargai login and every model is a command — vargai generate_video …, vargai estimate_cost … (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/)
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