AI influencer or persona with an AI agent — skills, options and steps

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 recurring AI character with one look and one format, posting as a creator or a brand face.

Output: Character card + model sheet + a series of 9:16 clips

Recommended route

Best skills for this

  1. Character Design (varg-character-design, varg, live) — Start here: Definition, details, clothing, the sheet and reuse in video
  2. Beautiful Women (varg-character-beautiful-woman, varg, live) — Start here: Model-casting details, real skin and styling for a beautiful persona, with wording that passes filters
  3. Cringe Deadpan Characters (varg-character-cringe, varg, live) — Alternative: The odd deadpan persona format (one outfit, one action, a new place every post)
  4. Fitness Characters (varg-character-fitness, varg, live) — Alternative: A fitness creator with a signature colour and catalog wording
  5. Grandma Characters (varg-character-grandma, varg, live) — Alternative: An AI granny page, the archetype with the best brand-deal evidence
  6. Higgsfield Soul ID (higgsfield-soul-id, Higgsfield, live) — Alternative: Trains a face from photos of a real, consenting person on Higgsfield · Needs: Higgsfield account, Higgsfield CLI (higgsfield auth login)
  7. Consistent Characters (varg-consistent-characters, varg, beta) — Adds: Multi-scene ads with the persona once the sheet is approved

Ask the person first

Put these choices in front of the person before spending anything. Paste the example link next to each option: people pick a look by seeing it.

Archetype?

Look?

Start from?

Steps

  1. Pick one archetype with contrast (age, size, outfit, situation) and write the character card: exact numbers, one signature detail, one loud colour, specific flaws
  2. Make the model sheet (Seedream 5 Pro for photoreal), check the signature detail in every panel, cut a face crop and a full-body crop
  3. Fix the format: the same outfit and action, a new place or situation every post
  4. Make each post as an approved still first, then animate it (Kling 4 from the still, or Seedance 2.5 with the crops as references)
  5. Label the account and the posts as AI; never present the persona as a real customer

What works now (researched 2026-10-27)

Generic AI beauties stall; what spreads in late 2026 is a believable character with a gap in it (a 2-metre deadpan man, an 84-year-old in leopard print, a jacked clown), one fixed outfit and one repeated format. The sheet is the asset, the label is mandatory, and the money is in deals and affiliate slots, not views.

  1. Build contrast, not beauty: an extreme age, size or outfit played completely straight. "The bigger the gap between what people expect and what they see, the harder they share": a 6'7", 154 lb gym guy reached 4.6M on one reel; a pet brand's generic AI influencers got 212-785 views while its AI cat got 1.44M. (@0xAI42exe on X, contrast characters (Oct 2026))
  2. Lock one silhouette and one signature colour, then change only the place or the situation each post. Jean Phil (houndstooth suit, curled moustache, shadowboxing around Paris) reached 244K Instagram followers from 12 posts, one clip at 35.9M views. (Creatorflow, Jean Phil teardown (Oct 2026))
  3. Write realism as specific flaws (pores, asymmetry, a gap tooth, phone framing), never as "beautiful" or "perfect". The most-bookmarked realism prompt of the year forbids beautifying and symmetry correction; 7,271 bookmarks. (@jackcashout on X, raw selfie prompt (Jan 2026))
  4. Label the account as AI and keep the persona a character, not a fake customer. Instagram cuts Reels and Explore reach for unlabelled AI-person accounts from 2026-08-31; the FTC rule bans AI fake testimonials. (Implicator, Instagram AI persona label (Aug 2026))
  5. For fitness and swimwear personas, write catalog prompts: adult age as a number, each garment named, an activity, the brand purpose. In varg tests on 2026-10-27 "girl" and "bikini" were blocked on GPT Image 2.5, FLUX 3 and Grok, while a catalog prompt passed on all six image models. (varg, character design skill: moderation test log (Oct 2026))

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Prompts that work

Templates from the creators of the best current results and from the model guides. Fill in the {CAPS}.

Very beautiful woman, real skin, editorial (seedream_5_pro)

The hero still or the casting for a beautiful persona: model features one by one, real skin, styling and light that make it a shoot. Passed on Seedream 5 Pro; swap the outfit and place, keep the structure. Adapted from varg, beautiful-woman character skill (tested 2026-10-27).

Fashion editorial photo of a strikingly beautiful {AGE}-year-old woman with model looks: high cheekbones, full lips, {EYE_SHAPE_AND_COLOUR} eyes, a sharp jawline, {HAIR_WITH_STYLING_VERB}, {SKIN_TONE} skin with visible pores and a few freckles, {MAKEUP}. She wears {OUTFIT_NAMED_EXACTLY} and {ONE_JEWELLERY_PIECE}, {ACTION} in {PLACE} at golden hour, confident half-smile, looking into the camera. 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, warm backlight in her hair, real skin texture, no plastic smoothing.

Fitness persona, catalog wording that passes filters (any)

A gym or activewear persona without false blocks: passed on Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, Seedream 5 Pro, FLUX 3, Soul and Grok Image 2 on 2026-10-27. Adapted from varg, fitness character skill (tested 2026-10-27).

Activewear brand catalog photo of a {AGE}-year-old adult woman with an athletic build, wearing a high-support {COLOUR} sports bra and high-waisted {COLOUR} leggings, unbranded, mid-workout in a sunlit concrete gym, holding a kettlebell at chest height, light sweat on her forehead, focused expression. Natural skin texture with visible pores, real muscle definition. Shot on 35mm, fitness magazine editorial.

Odd deadpan persona sheet (the Jean Phil format) (seedream_5_pro)

A bizarre-but-believable man who repeats one action in a new ordinary place every post. Make the sheet once, then every post from its crops. Adapted from varg, cringe character skill (tested 2026-10-27).

Character reference sheet for AI video, flat light-grey studio background, even soft studio light, no text, no labels, no logos. Top row: three full-body views at the same scale: front, side profile, back, arms relaxed, empty hands. Bottom row: three large head-and-shoulders close-ups: front, three-quarter, side profile. The same man in every panel. CHARACTER: {NAME}, a {AGE}-year-old {NATIONALITY} man, {ONE_EXTREME_BODY_TRAIT_WITH_PROPORTIONS}, {ONE_STRANGE_HAIRCUT}, {ONE_STRANGE_FACE_FEATURE}, completely serious deadpan expression. WARDROBE: {A_SUIT_NOBODY_WEARS}, {SOMETHING_WRONG_AT_THE_EDGES}, {ABSURD_SHOES_OR_ACCESSORY}. Photoreal, visible skin pores, no retouching.

Trending formats to remake

To remake one: download the example with the media-download skill, take a frame a second and the transcript, write a beat list (time, shot, camera, on-screen text, sound), keep what the format needs, swap in the person's product or character (never the creator's face, voice, logo or footage), show the beat list and stills before spending, then make it with the skill named below.

  1. Odd guy, same outfit, new place: A photoreal, bizarre-but-believable man in one signature outfit doing one action everywhere, motion copied from real clips. Why it spreads: Comments argue whether he is real; one silhouette reads in a frame. Dozens of copycats in Oct 2026. Make it with Cringe Deadpan Characters (varg-character-cringe).
  2. A fitness creator who does not exist: A locked gym persona (one outfit, one accent colour) giving tips and demos, built from a sheet. Why it spreads: Natural fit for activewear and supplement slots; the lime wristbands carry the identity. Make it with Fitness Characters (varg-character-fitness).
  3. Raw selfie persona: Phone-camera stills and clips of a persona with natural skin, flyaways and off-centre framing. Why it spreads: Reads as a person, not a render; the prompt itself became a template. No dedicated skill yet: build it with varg-ai.

Set up 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.

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