heygen-avatar
heygen-avatar is an agent skill published by heygen-com, listed under building agents. It lives in the heygen-com/skills repository, which has 520 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Create a persistent HeyGen avatar using HeyGen Avatar V technology, which can be prompted with a description or uploaded from a photo. Use this to give an agent a face and voice, represent yourself in videos, or design a character presenter. Returns an avatar_id and voice_id for use with HeyGen-video.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads heygen-com/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add heygen-com/skills
Maintenance
Create a persistent HeyGen avatar — a reusable face + voice identity for the agent, the user, or any named character — powered by HeyGen Avatar V technology. Prompt-based creation by default (description → HeyGen builds it); photo upload is optional for real-person digital twins. Use when: (1) giving the agent a face + voice so it can present videos ("bring yourself to life", "create your avatar", "give yourself an avatar", "design a presenter", "set up an avatar", "let's make an avatar"), (2) the user wants to appear in videos as themselves ("create my avatar", "I want my face in a video", "digital twin of me", "build me an avatar"), (3) building a named character presenter ("create an avatar called Cleo", "design a character named X"), (4) establishing HeyGen identity before making videos — the correct FIRST step when no avatar exists yet. Chain signal: when the user says both an identity/avatar action AND a video action in the same request ("create an avatar AND make a video", "set up identity THEN create a video", "design a presenter AND immediately record"), run heygen-avatar first, then heygen-video. Returns avatar_id + voice_id — pass directly to heygen-video to create HeyGen videos. NOT for: generating videos (use heygen-video), translating videos, or TTS-only tasks.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Common questions about heygen-avatar
- What does heygen-avatar do?
- Create a persistent HeyGen avatar using HeyGen Avatar V technology, which can be prompted with a description or uploaded from a photo. Use this to give an agent a face and voice, represent yourself in videos, or design a character presenter. Returns an avatar_id and voice_id for use with HeyGen-video.
- How do I install heygen-avatar?
- Run npx skills add heygen-com/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes heygen-avatar?
- heygen-com.
- Is heygen-avatar maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 520 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-07-14. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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