Living Editorial Banner — trending format for images & thumbnails

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

A split 16:9 card: a static serif headline and stats beside an AI painting that breathes with subtle motion.

What it does

A research or brand-comms card: the left panel is static typography (logo, serif headline, reviewer avatars) and the right is an AI "oil painting" with minimal motion (locked camera, light flicker, micro-movement), which makes a stat feel like an editorial cover. The sample's own thread was a blind test showing the image model should follow the brief. An agent routes the hero image by brief (Muse for graphic looks, GPT Image 2.5 or Nano Banana 2.1 for painterly ones), animates it with a gentle image-to-video pass, keeps every word in HTML so text never warps, and exports 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5.

Status

A format people ask for that has no dedicated skill yet. Make it with the skills on the use-case pages below, or with varg directly.

Example: https://x.com/contraben/status/2074943936570024126

How an agent would make it: Headline + stat → hero image routed by brief → subtle image-to-video with a locked camera → HTML split layout → 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5 exports

Models it drives: muse_image, gpt_image_2_5, nano_banana_2_1, kling_v3

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/want-living-editorial-banner.mp4 — Contra Labs research card: static serif headline, logo and reviewer avatars on the left, an AI 'oil painting' (made with Meta Muse Image) with a glowing laptop and slight light flicker on the right (first 8 s of 16 s) (credit: ben (@contraben), Contra Labs, https://x.com/contraben/status/2074943936570024126)

More images & thumbnails skills

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.