split-animated-talking-head SKILL.md skillA

split-animated-talking-head from kevinbadi/open-edits is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kevinbadi/open-edits/split-animated-talking-head@git:20261002.34d1c9f

Pins git:20261002.34d1c9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kevinbadi/open-edits
Path
skills/split-animated-talking-head/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261002.34d1c9f, committed Oct 2, 2026
Size
54,217 bytes
Repository stars
43
License
MIT

Turn a user-supplied talking-head clip (webcam, phone selfie, or recorded speaker) plus an optional script or source URL into a split-format vertical short — custom-generated animations in the top ~50%, the provided talking-head cropped into a taller rounded band across the bottom, kinetic captions synced to the clip's own voice, real product logos/screenshots whenever a named tool is spoken, real portraits of the notable figures behind any spoken niche…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Split Animated Short — user talking head (taller live band)

**HARD RULE (Kevin 2026-09-03): Final video is 1080×1920. Never 720×1280.
Never scale the user's talking-head down to 704×640.** Their clip is already
1080p. Instagram/TikTok/YouTube Shorts display at 1080×1920; a 720p master
gets upscaled and looks like mud. If ffprobe on `renders/final.mp4` is not
`1080x1920`, delete it and start over. Do not publish 720p.

Same flagship format as `split-animated-short`, except the bottom band is the
**clip the user hands you**, not a HeyGen talking-photo. The clip's audio is
the master timeline. Animations are authored per script — zero pixels from any
*reference* reel except its words, if one is given.

Live talking-head footage needs **more band height than the HeyGen 45% lock**
so hats/hair aren't clipped (Kevin 2026-09-01). Default band is **1056×960 at
y=936** on the **1080×1920** canvas (caption baseline rests ON the accent line at
y=BAND_Y-5, letters fully above the head; Kevin 2026-09-18/19). Round all four
corners of the band mask — never `BAND_H+60` (that square-cuts the bottom
flush to the canvas). ~24px of canvas stays under the card.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kevinbadi/open-edits/split-animated-talking-head@sha256:18e601727dd2240f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.34d1c9f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 2, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (54217 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

kevinbadi/open-edits · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dnomszhfxlng7kr4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kevinbadi/open-edits/split-animated-talking-head
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18e601727dd2240f6e930bbdea6c68ac2ee0d01751a4a24de98d9915ac53ceab

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