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talking-photo from synchronicity-labs/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add synchronicity-labs/skills/talking-photo@git:20261105.77971a9

Pins git:20261105.77971a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: synchronicity-labs/skills
Path: skills/talking-photo/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261105.77971a9, committed Nov 5, 2026
First version recorded: Nov 5, 2026
Size: 4,616 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Make a still image talk with sync. labs (sync.so). Turns a photo, portrait, headshot, or an illustrated or AI-generated character with a human-like face into a lip-synced video from a typed script (sync. voices it) or the user's own audio. Use for "make this photo talk", "make this picture say…", talking avatars, talking headshots, animating a portrait or character with speech, or image-to-video with dialogue, including when the user has no picture yet and wants one made first. Not for moving…

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

# Make a photo talk

Delivers one MP4 of the picture speaking the user's words. The video is as long as the speech.

If no sync. tools are available, follow [references/connect.md](references/connect.md) first. Without the MCP tools, use the REST requests in [references/api.md](references/api.md) for the same steps.

## Inputs

- **Picture:** a local image, an image attached in chat, a public URL, or a sync. image asset ID. If the user has no picture and you can generate images, offer to make one: one clear face, looking at the camera, mouth closed, head and shoulders, plain background. Otherwise ask for one.
- **Speech:** a script, which needs a voice, or an audio file, URL or asset.

Ask only for what's missing. Never invent the words. If the user asks you to write them, draft a short script and get approval before quoting.

## Tools

| Step | Tool |
| --- | --- |
| Save files | `assets_upload` (chat apps), or `assets_create-upload-url` then `assets_create` (local files) |
| Pick a voice (script only) | `voices_list` |
| Quote | `generations_estimate-cost` |
| Create | `lipsync_create` |
| Wait | `generations_get` |

## Steps
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add synchronicity-labs/skills/talking-photo@sha256:8a74d7fb7ccaf791

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.77971a9, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ejhpitglbg5rat5r.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ejhpitglbg5rat5r)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Nov 5, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261105.77971a9 latest	2026-11-05	77971a9	4,616 B	A	view · diff
git:20261105.7d7e7d4	2026-11-05	7d7e7d4	4,637 B	A	view

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 (4616 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

synchronicity-labs/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ejhpitglbg5rat5r
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synchronicity-labs/skills/talking-photo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a74d7fb7ccaf791e6b751e3eb88d7c63c78eed29523333490a89c0b8dd0787f

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.