heygen
Installation
Summary
[DEPRECATED] Legacy avatar video generation API — use create-video or avatar-video skills instead.
- Generates talking-head videos, explainers, and presentations from text prompts or detailed scripts with precise avatar, voice, and scene control
- Provides MCP tools for prompt-based generation, video status polling, and account management; falls back to direct HTTP API calls if tools unavailable
- Supports multi-scene videos with per-scene avatars, backgrounds, voices, and timing; captions, text overlays, and transparent WebM output for compositing
- Requires
HEYGEN_API_KEYenvironment variable for authentication
SKILL.md
HeyGen API (Deprecated)
This skill is deprecated. Use the focused skills instead:
create-video— Generate videos from a text prompt (Video Agent API)avatar-video— Build videos with specific avatars, voices, scripts, and scenes (v2 API)
This skill remains for backward compatibility but will be removed in a future release.
AI avatar video creation API for generating talking-head videos, explainers, and presentations.
Tool Selection
If HeyGen MCP tools are available (mcp__heygen__*), prefer them over direct HTTP API calls — they handle authentication and request formatting automatically.
| Task | MCP Tool | Fallback (Direct API) |
|---|---|---|
| Generate video from prompt | mcp__heygen__generate_video_agent |
POST /v1/video_agent/generate |
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