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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.
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
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Create and manage HeyGen avatars for anyone: the agent, the user, or named characters. Handles identity extraction, avatar generation, voice selection, and saves everything to AVATAR-<NAME>.md for consistent reuse.
This skill reads and writes the following. No other files are accessed without explicit user instruction.
| Operation | Path | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Read | SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md | Extract identity details when creating an avatar for the agent |
| Read | AVATAR-<NAME>.md | Load existing avatar identity (for variant looks, voice updates) |
| Write | AVATAR-<NAME>.md | Save new avatar identity after creation |
| Write | AVATAR-AGENT.md, AVATAR-USER.md (symlinks) | Role aliases, see Phase 5 |
| Temp write | /tmp/openclaw/uploads/ | Voice preview audio (downloaded for user playback, deleted after session) |
| Remote upload | HeyGen (via heygen asset create or MCP) | User-provided photos uploaded to HeyGen for digital-twin creation |
Assets are only uploaded to HeyGen when the user explicitly provides them.
Detect the user's language from their first message. Store as user_language (e.g., en, ja, es, ko, zh, fr, de, pt).
user_language.user_language. When designing or selecting a voice, specify the target language so the voice library returns matches that speak it.Young Adult, Realistic, landscape, etc.) are API-level and not translated.SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, AVATAR-*.md at the workspace root contain identity. Check them first. Only ask the user for what's genuinely missing.Default target = the agent. The primary use of this skill is giving the agent a face + voice so it can present videos. Route to "user" only on explicit "my avatar" / "me" / "my photo" language. When in doubt, make the agent's avatar.
Do NOT batch-ask questions. No "give me a photo, voice preference, duration, target platform, tone, key message" all at once. Walk phases in order. Each phase asks at most one or two things at a time.
For agent avatars: read SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md first, then go straight to prompt-based creation. Do NOT ask the user for a photo or appearance details first. The agent's identity lives in those workspace files. Only ask the user for traits that are genuinely missing.
Prompt-based is the default creation path. Photo is opt-in, only relevant when the user explicitly wants a real-person digital twin of themselves. Agents and named characters almost always use prompt-based creation.
Try to read SOUL.md from the workspace root.
⚠️ AVATAR file caveat: Ignore any AVATAR-*.md files found in the workspace that belong to a different person or agent (e.g., AVATAR-Eve.md when creating an avatar for Claude). Only use an AVATAR file if its name matches the subject you're creating for right now.
⚠️ Do NOT fetch HeyGen avatars yet. That's a Phase 0 sub-step (only after target detection). Fetching before Phase 0 causes the agent to frame the conversation around "your existing avatars" when the default should be creating one for the agent itself.
Mode selection is silent. Detect once at the start of the session, pick a mode, move on. Never narrate transport choice ("CLI is broken", "switching to MCP") — the user doesn't care how calls are made.
MCP (preferred): If HeyGen MCP tools are available (tools matching mcp__heygen__*), use them. MCP authenticates via OAuth — no API key needed — and runs against the user's existing HeyGen plan credits.
CLI fallback: If MCP tools are not available AND the heygen binary runs cleanly (heygen --version exits 0), use it. Auth: HEYGEN_API_KEY env OR heygen auth login (persists to ~/.heygen/credentials). If the CLI is missing, errors on --version, or auth is not set, silently skip it — do not retry MCP.
Neither available: Only if MCP is unavailable AND the CLI doesn't work, tell the user once: "To use this skill, connect the HeyGen MCP server or install the HeyGen CLI: curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash then heygen auth login."
API: v3 only. Never call v1 or v2 endpoints.
Docs-first rule: Before calling any endpoint you're unsure about:
GET https://developers.heygen.com/llms.txt — full sitemap.md to the URL for clean markdownheygen <noun> <verb> --helpEvery avatar gets one file: AVATAR-<NAME>.md at the workspace root.
AVATAR-EVE.md ← agent (named, canonical)
AVATAR-KEN.md ← user (named, canonical)
AVATAR-CLEO.md ← character (named, canonical)
The skill also maintains two role-based symlinks alongside the named files, for generic lookups by consumer skills (e.g., heygen-video) when the request doesn't carry a specific name ("make a video of yourself" → read the agent alias; "make a video of me" → read the user alias):
AVATAR-AGENT.md → AVATAR-<CURRENT-AGENT-NAME>.md (symlink)
AVATAR-USER.md → AVATAR-<CURRENT-USER-NAME>.md (symlink)
Named files are the single source of truth; aliases are pointers and never drift. Phase 5 of the workflow maintains them. Named characters get NO role alias — they are referenced by name only.
Format:
# Avatar: <Name>
## Appearance
- Age: <natural language>
- Gender: <natural language>
- Ethnicity: <natural language>
- Hair: <natural language>
- Build: <natural language>
- Features: <natural language>
- Style: <natural language>
- Reference: <optional workspace-relative path or URL>
## Voice
- Tone: <natural language>
- Accent: <natural language>
- Energy: <natural language>
- Think: <one-line analogy>
## HeyGen
- Group ID: <character identity anchor — THE stable reference, never changes>
- Voice ID: <matched or designed voice>
- Voice Name: <human-readable>
- Voice Designed: <true if custom-designed, false if picked from catalog>
- Voice Seed: <seed value used, if designed>
- Looks: landscape=<look_id>, portrait=<look_id>, square=<look_id>
- Last Synced: <ISO timestamp>
⚠️ look_ids are ephemeral — always resolve fresh from group_id at runtime via `heygen avatar looks list --group-id <id>` (or MCP `list_avatar_looks`). Never hardcode look_id as the primary avatar reference.
Top sections (Appearance, Voice) are portable natural language. Any platform can use them. HeyGen section is runtime config with API IDs. Skills read this to make API calls.
Start every invocation with:
🎭 Using: heygen-avatar — creating an avatar for [name]
DO NOT batch-ask questions upfront. Walk phases in order. Each phase asks at most one thing at a time, and only if needed.
See the Start Here block above for the default-to-agent rule. Only route to "user" or "named character" when the phrasing is unambiguous.
Routing signals (in priority order):
IDENTITY.md for name.When unsure, default to agent. Do NOT ask the user for their name, appearance, or voice on an ambiguous request — that's the wrong first move. If after reading IDENTITY.md + SOUL.md the intent still feels ambiguous, ask one short clarifying question to disambiguate (phrase it naturally — something like "quick check: this avatar is for you, or for me?").
Then check AVATAR-<NAME>.md at the workspace root:
Role alias staleness check. Before proceeding, also check whether the role alias for this target is already pointing at the right named file:
version: 3.2.0 # x-release-please-version
name: heygen-avatar
description: |
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.
argument-hint: "[name_or_description]"
allowed-tools: Bash, WebFetch, Read, Write, mcp__heygen__*---
version: 3.2.0 # x-release-please-version
name: heygen-avatar
description: |
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.
argument-hint: "[name_or_description]"
allowed-tools: Bash, WebFetch, Read, Write, mcp__heygen__*
---
# HeyGen Avatar Designer
Create and manage HeyGen avatars for anyone: the agent, the user, or named characters. Handles identity extraction, avatar generation, voice selection, and saves everything to `AVATAR-<NAME>.md` for consistent reuse.
## Files & Paths
This skill reads and writes the following. No other files are accessed without explicit user instruction.
| Operation | Path | Purpose |
|-----------|------|---------|
| Read | `SOUL.md`, `IDENTITY.md` | Extract identity details when creating an avatar for the agent |
| Read | `AVATAR-<NAME>.md` | Load existing avatar identity (for variant looks, voice updates) |
| Write | `AVATAR-<NAME>.md` | Save new avatar identity after creation |
| Write | `AVATAR-AGENT.md`, `AVATAR-USER.md` (symlinks) | Role aliases, see Phase 5 |
| Temp write | `/tmp/openclaw/uploads/` | Voice preview audio (downloaded for user playback, deleted after session) |
| Remote upload | HeyGen (via `heygen asset create` or MCP) | User-provided photos uploaded to HeyGen for digital-twin creation |
Assets are only uploaded to HeyGen when the user explicitly provides them.
## Language Awareness
**Detect the user's language from their first message.** Store as `user_language` (e.g., `en`, `ja`, `es`, `ko`, `zh`, `fr`, `de`, `pt`).
1. **Communicate with the user in their language.** All questions, status updates, confirmations, and error messages should be in `user_language`.
2. **Voice design prompts and selection respect `user_language`.** When designing or selecting a voice, specify the target language so the voice library returns matches that speak it.
3. **Technical directives stay in English** — enum values (`Young Adult`, `Realistic`, `landscape`, etc.) are API-level and not translated.
## UX Rules
1. **Be concise.** No avatar IDs, group IDs, or raw API payloads in chat. Report the result (avatar created, ready to use) not the plumbing.
2. **No internal jargon.** Never mention internal phase names ("Phase 0", "Phase 5 Symlink Maintenance") to the user. The user sees natural conversation: "Setting up your avatar\u2026" not "Running Phase 2 avatar creation."
3. **One or two questions per phase.** Don't batch-ask. Walk phases in order, ask the smallest set of questions needed to proceed.
4. **Read workspace files before asking.** `SOUL.md`, `IDENTITY.md`, `AVATAR-*.md` at the workspace root contain identity. Check them first. Only ask the user for what's genuinely missing.
5. **Don't narrate skill internals.** Never say "let me read the workflow," "checking the reference files," "loading the avatar discovery guide." Read silently. The user sees questions and results, not internal navigation.
6. **Don't announce what you're about to do.** Skip meta-commentary like "Creating the avatar now." Just do the work. If a step takes time, the next thing the user hears should be the result (or a checkpoint question).
7. **Never narrate transport choice.** MCP vs CLI is internal. Pick the transport silently and never mention it. If both are unavailable, ask the user to configure one without explaining why.
## Start Here (Critical)
**Default target = the agent.** The primary use of this skill is giving the agent a face + voice so it can present videos. Route to "user" only on explicit "my avatar" / "me" / "my photo" language. When in doubt, make the agent's avatar.
**Do NOT batch-ask questions.** No "give me a photo, voice preference, duration, target platform, tone, key message" all at once. Walk phases in order. Each phase asks at most one or two things at a time.
**For agent avatars: read SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md first, then go straight to prompt-based creation.** Do NOT ask the user for a photo or appearance details first. The agent's identity lives in those workspace files. Only ask the user for traits that are genuinely missing.
**Prompt-based is the default creation path.** Photo is opt-in, only relevant when the user explicitly wants a real-person digital twin of themselves. Agents and named characters almost always use prompt-based creation.
## Before You Start (environment detection)
Try to read `SOUL.md` from the workspace root.
- **Found** → OpenClaw environment. Skip this entire section and go straight to Phase 0. Workspace-native identity (SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md) will drive agent onboarding.
- **Not found** → Claude Code environment, no workspace identity files. Still go to Phase 0 next — do NOT skip ahead to listing user avatars or asking the user for a photo.
**⚠️ AVATAR file caveat:** Ignore any AVATAR-*.md files found in the workspace that belong to a *different* person or agent (e.g., AVATAR-Eve.md when creating an avatar for Claude). Only use an AVATAR file if its name matches the subject you're creating for right now.
**⚠️ Do NOT fetch HeyGen avatars yet.** That's a Phase 0 sub-step (only after target detection). Fetching before Phase 0 causes the agent to frame the conversation around "your existing avatars" when the default should be creating one for the agent itself.
## API Mode Detection
**Mode selection is silent.** Detect once at the start of the session, pick a mode, move on. Never narrate transport choice ("CLI is broken", "switching to MCP") — the user doesn't care how calls are made.
**MCP (preferred):** If HeyGen MCP tools are available (tools matching `mcp__heygen__*`), use them. MCP authenticates via OAuth — no API key needed — and runs against the user's existing HeyGen plan credits.
**CLI fallback:** If MCP tools are not available AND the `heygen` binary runs cleanly (`heygen --version` exits 0), use it. Auth: `HEYGEN_API_KEY` env OR `heygen auth login` (persists to `~/.heygen/credentials`). If the CLI is missing, errors on `--version`, or auth is not set, silently skip it — do not retry MCP.
**Neither available:** Only if MCP is unavailable AND the CLI doesn't work, tell the user once: "To use this skill, connect the HeyGen MCP server or install the HeyGen CLI: `curl -fsSL https://static.heygen.ai/cli/install.sh | bash` then `heygen auth login`."
**API:** v3 only. Never call v1 or v2 endpoints.
**Docs-first rule:** Before calling any endpoint you're unsure about:
- **Index:** `GET https://developers.heygen.com/llms.txt` — full sitemap
- **Any page:** Append `.md` to the URL for clean markdown
- Or run `heygen <noun> <verb> --help`
- Read the spec, THEN build your request. Never guess field names.
## Avatar File Convention
Every avatar gets one file: `AVATAR-<NAME>.md` at the workspace root.
```
AVATAR-EVE.md ← agent (named, canonical)
AVATAR-KEN.md ← user (named, canonical)
AVATAR-CLEO.md ← character (named, canonical)
```
The skill also maintains two **role-based symlinks** alongside the named
files, for generic lookups by consumer skills (e.g., heygen-video) when the
request doesn't carry a specific name ("make a video of yourself" → read
the agent alias; "make a video of me" → read the user alias):
```
AVATAR-AGENT.md → AVATAR-<CURRENT-AGENT-NAME>.md (symlink)
AVATAR-USER.md → AVATAR-<CURRENT-USER-NAME>.md (symlink)
```
Named files are the single source of truth; aliases are pointers and never
drift. Phase 5 of the workflow maintains them. Named characters get NO
role alias — they are referenced by name only.
Format:
```markdown
# Avatar: <Name>
## Appearance
- Age: <natural language>
- Gender: <natural language>
- Ethnicity: <natural language>
- Hair: <natural language>
- Build: <natural language>
- Features: <natural language>
- Style: <natural language>
- Reference: <optional workspace-relative path or URL>
## Voice
- Tone: <natural language>
- Accent: <natural language>
- Energy: <natural language>
- Think: <one-line analogy>
## HeyGen
- Group ID: <character identity anchor — THE stable reference, never changes>
- Voice ID: <matched or designed voice>
- Voice Name: <human-readable>
- Voice Designed: <true if custom-designed, false if picked from catalog>
- Voice Seed: <seed value used, if designed>
- Looks: landscape=<look_id>, portrait=<look_id>, square=<look_id>
- Last Synced: <ISO timestamp>
⚠️ look_ids are ephemeral — always resolve fresh from group_id at runtime via `heygen avatar looks list --group-id <id>` (or MCP `list_avatar_looks`). Never hardcode look_id as the primary avatar reference.
```
**Top sections** (Appearance, Voice) are portable natural language. Any platform can use them.
**HeyGen section** is runtime config with API IDs. Skills read this to make API calls.
## Skill Announcement
Start every invocation with:
> 🎭 **Using: heygen-avatar** — creating an avatar for [name]
## Workflow
**DO NOT batch-ask questions upfront.** Walk phases in order. Each phase asks at most one thing at a time, and only if needed.
### Phase 0 — Who Are We Creating?
See the Start Here block above for the default-to-agent rule. Only route to "user" or "named character" when the phrasing is unambiguous.
Routing signals (in priority order):
1. **User** (explicit only) — "create **my** avatar", "make **me** an avatar", "I want my face in a video", "a digital twin of **me**", "based on **my** photo". Requires a possessive pronoun referring to the user OR explicit mention of their photo. Ask for their name if not obvious.
2. **Named character** (explicit only) — "create an avatar called Cleo", "design a character named X", "build a presenter named Y" → use the given name.
3. **Agent** (default) — everything else: "create your avatar", "bring yourself to life", "set up an avatar", "let's make an avatar", "create an avatar", "design a presenter", "I want you to appear in videos", or any ambiguous phrasing. Read `IDENTITY.md` for name.
**When unsure, default to agent.** Do NOT ask the user for their name, appearance, or voice on an ambiguous request — that's the wrong first move. If after reading IDENTITY.md + SOUL.md the intent still feels ambiguous, ask one short clarifying question to disambiguate (phrase it naturally — something like "quick check: this avatar is for you, or for me?").
Then check `AVATAR-<NAME>.md` at the workspace root:
- **AVATAR file exists + HeyGen section filled in** → "You already have an avatar set up. Want to add a new look, update it, or start fresh?" Wait for answer.
- **AVATAR file exists but HeyGen section empty** → skip to Phase 2.
- **No AVATAR file** → proceed to Phase 1.
**Role alias staleness check.** Before proceeding, also check whether the
role alias for this target is already pointing at the right named file:
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