# generating-ai-actors

Casts a photorealistic person as a single image. Pass that image into later generations and the same face, hair and build come back.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 232
- Author: SupercmoHQ
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/generating-ai-actors

## What it does

The skill walks through casting a character deliberately: gender, age, ethnicity, build, then the face feature by feature — jaw and chin, cheekbones, eye shape and colour, brows, nose, mouth, skin texture, hair, facial hair, glasses, makeup. One distinguishing feature is chosen, or none. Leaving those calls to the image model means the same face every time, so each line gets decided in the prompt. The subject is introduced as invented and non-identifiable.

Scene and shot come next. A place gets described through surfaces, objects and dominant colours; light defaults to plain daytime with no warm tint unless the brief says otherwise. The shot is a phone self-portrait: head and shoulders at arm's length, gaze into the lens, framing a little off-centre, small-sensor grain, empty hands.

The neckline stays high and the chest covered no matter what the brief asks for, and that coverage is written as what the person wears rather than what is left off. Casual words for young people trip the image model's content filter and kill the generation, so they stay out of the prompt even when the subject is plainly an adult.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-ai-actors -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/generating-ai-actors/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-ai-actors -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-ai-actors -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills generating-ai-actors
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-ai-actors -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/generating-ai-actors
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-ai-actors -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-ai-actors/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- keep one face consistent across a set of images and videos
- define a character's looks feature by feature instead of trusting the model
- write a selfie-style shot without studio lighting
- describe a room so the model has something to build from
- hold a closed neckline through a brief that asks otherwise

## Example prompts
- Generate an AI actor: a woman in her forties, olive skin, dark wavy shoulder-length hair
- I need a presenter for a video series — invent someone and frame it as a phone selfie
- Make the actor image I'll reuse in my next generations

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: generating-ai-actors
description: Generates one photorealistic person as a single image — an AI actor, influencer, presenter or model. The image is reusable, so passing it into any later generation brings the same face, hair and build back and one person can hold across a whole set of images or videos. Use when the user wants an AI actor, or when something needs a person and no photo of one was supplied.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.4.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Casts a distinct, demographic-specific AI actor as a reusable identity reference, allowing you to reliably feature the exact same brand face across an entire multi-asset image and video campaign."
---

# The actor

Generate an image of an AI actor.

Anything the brief specifies wins. The defaults below fill gaps only.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Cast the person

An adult, always. Fill a younger brief with an adult and say so.

Keep casual words for young people out of the prompt altogether, even where the person described is
plainly an adult. They trip the image model's content filter and lose the generation.

Decide each of these deliberately rather than leaving it to the model, which returns the same face
every time.

**Who they are** — gender, age, ethnicity, build. An age anywhere from early twenties to late
sixties, a build anywhere from slight to athletic, broad or full.

**How they look.** This is what makes them recognisable when the image is reused, so it carries the
most weight. Take the face feature by feature.

**The examples below are a starting point, not the choices on offer.** Reach past them, decide each
line separately, and don't cast the same combination twice.

- **Face shape, jaw and chin** — oval, square, heart, long, round, diamond, oblong, pear, inverted
  triangle. The jaw strong and angular, or soft and tapered. The chin with a deep cleft or a subtle
  dimple.
- **Cheekbones** — high and sharp, soft and low, broad, prominent, sculpted, subtle and flushed,
  apple-cheeked, hollowed beneath, or slightly asymmetrical.
- **Eyes, shape and set** — almond, round, hooded, monolid, downturned, upturned, deep-set, wide-set,
  or close-set.
- **Eyes, colour** — emerald green, stormy grey, hazel with gold flecks, amber, pale ice blue, deep
  mahogany brown, heterochromia, violet-blue, moss green, or near-black.
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