Remake a reference 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.

Take a reel or ad you like, break it down shot by shot, and remake the format for your brand.

Output: A new video in the reference's format, with your product

Recommended route

Best skills for this

  1. Media Download (media-download, varg, live) — Start here: Downloads the reference by link (Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube…)
  2. Watch (video analysis) (claude-video-watch, Brad Bonanno, live) — Start here: Gives the agent eyes on the video: scene frames and a timestamped transcript
  3. varg AI (varg-ai, varg, live) — Adds: Generates the remake's shots, voice and music on one key; varg's analyze_video tool breaks a video down
  4. Reference Breakdown (craft-reference-breakdown, varg, draft) — Adds: Turns a frame into a shot spec: size, angle, lens, light, palette

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.

How close?

Your assets?

Steps

  1. Download and break down the reference (shots, timing, hook, text)
  2. Map each shot to your product
  3. Generate stills, approve, then video
  4. Edit to the reference's timing

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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