Making AI Avatar Videos with Claude Code and HeyGen Skills

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-04-17 · 0:58 · 60 views · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP · Level: beginner

Summary

A short post sharing HeyGen Skills, which let a coding agent like Claude Code make AI avatar videos. According to the quoted HeyGen announcement, you describe an avatar or paste a photo, and the agent builds the avatar, saves it for future videos and writes the video prompt for you. The clip is only a demo of an avatar introducing itself ("I'm Jake..."). It doesn't walk through any setup steps.

Key points

• HeyGen Skills are add-on skills that give an AI agent such as Claude Code the ability to make avatar videos.
• To create an avatar, you describe it in text or paste a photo, and the agent builds it.
• The avatar is saved and reused in every future video, so you don't have to recreate it.
• The agent also writes the video prompt so the message comes across well.
• The pitch: agents could already write text, and now they can also make video content.
• The post says to 'check the link below' to get started, but no link was included in the material.

Resources mentioned

• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more
• HeyGen Skills · tool · github.com · free
  Agent skills from HeyGen that let an AI agent create and reuse avatars and generate avatar videos.
• HeyGen · tool · x.com · check price
  AI video-generation platform for avatar and generative video, which now offers the Seedance 2.0 model.
  Also in: Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available Inside HeyGen (Demo Clip) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Making an AI Avatar YouTube Video with HeyGen (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Try this

• Install HeyGen Skills in Claude Code (the post's 'link below' wasn't included, so look up the official HeyGen Skills page).
• Describe an avatar or paste a photo so the agent can build and save it.
• Ask the agent to make a short video with your saved avatar.
• Make a short self-introduction video with an AI avatar, using Claude Code and HeyGen Skills.