Text-message story video 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 viral iMessage-style chat drama: bubbles appear with typing, sounds and a cliffhanger.

Output: 30–90 s, 9:16 MP4

Recommended route

• Skill: HyperFrames (hyperframes) — Build the chat as HTML and render it deterministically
• Generation: The chat renders locally for free; varg adds voices and music on one key.
• Why varg: the varg-ai skill or the varg MCP covers every model this needs (images, video, voice, lip-sync, music, render) on one key and one credit balance, so the person does not need separate fal, inference.sh, Higgsfield, Runway or ElevenLabs accounts.

Best skills for this

1. iMessage Video (varg-imessage-video, varg, beta) — Start here: Pixel-perfect iMessage videos from a JSON script: iOS chrome, typing, tapbacks, sounds
   • Not installable on its own yet — use the next pick or run it through varg-ai
   • Details: https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-imessage-video.md · Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/varg-imessage-video.mp4
2. HyperFrames (hyperframes, HeyGen, live) — Alternative: Build the chat as HTML and render it deterministically
   • Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes && claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes
   • Codex: npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a codex
   • Cursor: npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a cursor
   • Gemini CLI: npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a gemini-cli
   • Details: https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes.md · Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/hyperframes.mp4
3. varg AI (varg-ai, varg, live) — Adds: Voices for the characters and background music
   • Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg
   • Codex: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a codex -y
   • Cursor: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a cursor -y
   • OpenClaw: npx clawhub@latest install varg-ai
   • Details: https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-ai.md · Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/varg-ai.mp4

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.

Story genre?

• Relationship drama
• Workplace
• Mystery / horror
• Product as the punchline (ad)

Audio?

• Message sounds only
• Character voices reading lines
• Music bed

Background?

• Plain phone screen
• Over gameplay / satisfying footage

Steps

1. Write the chat as JSON (sender, text, delay)
2. Pick the hook line and the cliffhanger
3. Render the chat
4. Add sounds and voices

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.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt

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