transcribe

A command that turns audio or video from supported URLs into written text using Whisper, an automatic speech-recognition system. It can include timestamps showing when words occur.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe YouTube or X videos and audio or video files such as MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, MP4, and WebM.
Why use it?
It removes the need to listen through recordings manually when you need searchable or reusable text.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/deapi-ai/claude-code-skills/transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deapi-ai/claude-code-skills
Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 562 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00026 $0.00562
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00281
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash b8c9ba85e4a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcribe scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST "https://api.deapi.ai/api/v1/client/vid2txt" \
deapi/commands/transcribe.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Transcription via deAPI

Transcribe media from URL: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Determine endpoint

URL type Endpoint
.mp3, .wav, .m4a, .flac, .ogg aud2txt
YouTube, X, .mp4, .webm, other video vid2txt

Step 2: Send request

For video:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.deapi.ai/api/v1/client/vid2txt" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"video_url": "$ARGUMENTS", "include_ts": true, "model": "WhisperLargeV3"}'

For audio:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.deapi.ai/api/v1/client/aud2txt" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"audio_url": "$ARGUMENTS", "include_ts": true, "model": "WhisperLargeV3"}'

Step 3: Poll status (feedback loop)

Extract request_id from response, then poll every 10 seconds:

curl -s "https://api.deapi.ai/api/v1/client/request-status/{request_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEAPI_API_KEY"

Status handling:

  • processing → wait 10s, poll again
  • done → proceed to Step 4
  • failed → report error message to user, STOP

Step 4: Fetch and present result

When status = "done", fetch content from result_url and present transcription in readable format with timestamps.

Step 5: Offer follow-up

Ask user: "Would you like me to summarize the main points?"

Error handling

Error Action
401 Unauthorized Check if $DEAPI_API_KEY is set correctly
429 Rate Limited Wait 60s and retry
500 Server Error Wait 30s and retry once
Invalid URL Ask user to verify the URL format
Timeout (>5min) Inform user, suggest trying shorter content
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 67 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b8c9ba85e4a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcribe is a command published in the GitHub repository deapi-ai/claude-code-skills (21 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 562 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.