Hiring Avatar Studio

Turn one authorized likeness and voice into one talking-head hiring video per open role. The first role may create the voice. Later openings reuse it.

Scope and adjacent routes

Use this Skill when HR or a founder wants one talking-avatar hiring video from an authorized portrait plus a job description or script. Recur as new roles open.

Route weekly founder thought-leadership to founder-ip-avatar-studio. Route a one-off presenter clip that is not a job ad to talking-avatar-video. Route a lecture series with many lessons to course-video-studio. Without authorization for the likeness and the voice, stop at confirmation and do not generate.

Inputs and defaults

The hard inputs are:

• one accessible portrait the host Agent can inspect;
• either an approved speech track or a job description / script plus a voice path;
• whether the user owns or has been granted rights to the likeness and the voice.

Reuse language, destination, framing, and the frozen voice_id from earlier roles. Default to one hiring clip per named role, model: "auto" for video, the portrait as the strict first frame, and a source-derived aspect ratio. Ask only for a missing hard input.

Golden path

1. Inspect the portrait. Record MIME type, width, height, aspect ratio, byte size, and whether it has an alpha channel. Confirm likeness rights. For a local portrait or sample, upload only through the bundled client after inspection. Never pass a local path to a remote tool.

2. If the studio still needs a cloned voice, confirm consent first. Access to a file is not consent. A suitable sample is currently about 10 to 300 seconds, no larger than 20 MiB, and clean single-speaker speech. Call beatra.models.list with {"capability":"voice_clone"} and show the clone admission card before any clone client_request_id or beatra.voices.clone call: route voice_clone, tool beatra.voices.clone, live price for one successful activated voice, the provisional estimate, the 600-credit signup gift usually cannot start this clone, and what happens if the balance is short. Do not create client_request_id or submit until the user confirms they have topped up or already have enough credits. Do not offer a free clone. Submit beatra.voices.clone exactly once:

   {
     "sample": {"type": "artifact", "artifact_id": "artifact_..."},
     "display_name": "Hiring Voice",
     "consent_attested": true,
     "model": "auto",
     "client_request_id": "opaque-hiring-clone"
   }
   

   Poll with beatra.tasks.get until terminal, then freeze the returned voice_id. Otherwise call beatra.voices.list when a catalog voice still needs to be selected. Never put a display name in voice.

3. If the user already supplied an approved speech track, skip synthesis and admit that audio for video. For a script or job-description route, make the copy speakable without inventing compensation, headcount, or benefits the user did not supply. Call beatra.models.list with {"capability":"text_to_speech"} and {"capability":"image_to_video"}. Confirm that a current video card admits [image, driving_audio]. Compare the portrait's actual MIME, dimensions, byte size, and alpha-channel presence with every advertised image constraint. Confirm planned speech can fit a video duration the route can fully contain. Live driving-audio i2v (wan2.7-i2v) SKUs are 2–15s. If the script is longer than the longest containable clip, split it into sequential containable segments. Each segment is its own paid speech call and its own paid video call, each with a new client_request_id. Do not shorten words to cheapen a clip. Use mp3 only when the live speech card supports it and the live video card accepts audio/mpeg. If the user requested flac, opus, or pcm and the video route does not accept the resulting format, explain the incompatibility before any paid call and obtain the user's choice. Do not silently change the format. If any required media fact is unavailable or incompatible, stop before TTS.

4. On the script route only, show the narration arguments and paid boundary. Freeze the script, voice, format, and one speech client_request_id per segment. Submit beatra.speech.synthesize exactly once per segment through the bundled client. Skip this step when approved speech already exists.

5. For each speech segment, or for the supplied approved track, poll until terminal audio facts exist. On the script route, poll each narration task with beatra.tasks.get. Read the returned artifact plus actual task.output.audio.mime_type, duration_seconds, and size_bytes when present. Approve the real audio before that segment's video. Never treat a script preview, expected duration, or task metadata as an audio review.

6. For each approved audio segment, refresh the image_to_video cards and admit the actual portrait plus that audio. Recheck every image fact and compare the audio's actual MIME, duration, and byte size with the current driving-audio constraints. If terminal audio size is absent, obtain it from trusted artifact metadata; if it remains unavailable, stop before video. Use the smallest supported integer video duration at or above the actual speech length. Show the video admission card before any video client_request_id or beatra.videos.animate call: route image_to_video, tool beatra.videos.animate, approved portrait and speech artifacts, prompt, audio-led duration, resolution if set, output count, provisional live estimate, the fact that the 600-credit signup gift usually cannot start this video, and what happens if the balance is short. Do not submit until the user confirms they have topped up or already have enough credits. Approved narration does not authorize the video call.

7. Submit beatra.videos.animate exactly once per approved audio segment. Do not configure a host Beatra Connector. Do not use REST/OpenAPI as a fallback. Poll each video task with beatra.tasks.get until terminal.

8. Deliver the returned clips in script order with actual dimensions, duration, usage, and billing.net_charged_credits. Review identity, clarity, lip timing, and must-keep drift. Label the clip with the role name.

Decisions that require confirmation

Likeness and voice rights, clone admission, narration, and the video admission card each require their own confirmation.

Recovery

Each paid stage has its own frozen payload and ID. Recover a lost create response only with that stage's identical payload. Recover a lost task ID through beatra.tasks.list and beatra.tasks.get. Call beatra.tasks.cancel only when the user asks to cancel that stage; on 409 keep polling. On insufficient_balance, keep the top-up URL inside the balance error exact and retry the same frozen ID only after the user says they have topped up. If a create returns no task_id, do not poll; reconcile before minting a new ID.

Account balance

When the user asks how many credits remain or whether a live estimate fits, call beatra.wallet.get. When they ask what was charged, call beatra.wallet.ledger. Both are read-only. Do not invent an account-balance or top-up tool. Do not make wallet.get a required step before every paid submit.

When a model card comes back carrying a top_up block, relay its tiers as the card lists them and in that order. Do not rank them, do not talk one down, and do not pick one for the user. Which tier suits them is their call, made on the wallet page with the whole list in front of them. Never quote a tier from memory.

References by task

• Read Hiring avatar workflow for clone, narration, admission cards, payloads, and review.
• Read Installation and authentication only when authorization needs attention.
• Read Installation registration for first-use registration.
• Read Tasks and results and Billing, errors, and recovery for task and billing facts.
• Read Bundled MCP Client diagnostics when the bundled client cannot connect.
• Read Automatic updates and safety for update controls.
• Read Uninstall and disconnect only when the user asks to remove the package.

Runtime and safe automatic updates

Use or invoke the bundled scripts/mcp_client.py for every Beatra operation. Before ordinary commands it silently checks for a newer release at most once every 24 hours per installation. Silent checks are enabled by default, and a newer release installs without separate confirmation.

The updater accepts only the fixed official discovery address and immutable Beatra CDN path embedded for this package, channel, and locale. It verifies the discovery data, archive, manifest, and every file's size and checksum before replacement. It replaces only package-owned files and rejects redirects, downgrades, wrong package/channel/locale/version data, unexpected URLs, unsafe archives, and files outside the owned destination.

Update checks, downloads, verification, replacement, rollback, and recovery fail open: the current installation remains usable and the user's original command continues. An update failure never authorizes retrying a paid generation. The automatic-update choice persists across later commands for this installation:

python3 scripts/mcp_client.py update --auto off
python3 scripts/mcp_client.py update --auto on
python3 scripts/mcp_client.py update --check