Photo slideshow to music 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.

Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.

Output: 30–90 s, 9:16 or 16:9 MP4

Recommended route

• Skill: HyperFrames (hyperframes) — Photos, music and beat-synced cuts rendered from HTML
• Generation: Local render is free; varg can generate the music or animate photos into clips 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. HyperFrames (hyperframes, HeyGen, live) — Start here: Photos, music and beat-synced cuts rendered from HTML
   • 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
2. Remotion Best Practices (remotion-best-practices, Remotion, live) — Alternative: The same in React with Remotion
   • Claude Code: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a claude-code
   • Codex: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a codex
   • Cursor: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a cursor
   • Gemini CLI: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a gemini-cli
   • Details: https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-best-practices.md · Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/remotion-best-practices.mp4
3. varg AI (varg-ai, varg, live) — Adds: Slideshow recipe, generated music, or animating stills into short clips
   • 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
4. Editing & Transitions (craft-editing-transitions, varg, draft) — Adds: Cuts, whips and speed ramps
   • Not installable on its own yet — use the next pick or run it through varg-ai
   • Details: https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-editing-transitions.md · Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-editing-transitions.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.

Music?

• Your track
• Generated to match the mood

Motion?

• Ken Burns pan and zoom
• Animate each photo into a clip (AI)
• Hard cuts on the beat

Titles?

• Place and date
• None

Steps

1. Order the photos
2. Detect beats in the track
3. Cut on beats with motion
4. Titles, render

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

Related

• Edit your own footage: Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
• B-roll for your video: Cutaway footage for every mention in a voiceover or interview: generated clips, collage or stock-style shots, cut in on time.