speak-rate

A command for viewing or changing the speech speed used by speech output, measured in words per minute.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the current rate, set a numeric speed, choose slow, normal, or fast, or reset the rate.
Why use it?
It lets spoken responses match the listener's preferred pace or return to the system's default speed.

Command

Part of the claude-speak plugin — 6 commands, 1 hook shipped together

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/josephscript/claude-speak/speak-rate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephScript/claude-speak

Or install claude-speak, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands, 1 hook.

Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 356 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00021 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0f64f8336f08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

speak-rate scanned grade B 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **No argument**: report the current rate. Run `cat ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate 2>/dev/null`; if empty/missing, the rate is "system default".
commands/speak-rate.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Based on the argument passed to this command, do exactly one of the following via Bash, then report the result in one short sentence — nothing else:

  • No argument: report the current rate. Run cat ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate 2>/dev/null; if empty/missing, the rate is "system default".
  • A plain number (e.g. 220): set that exact words-per-minute value: mkdir -p ~/.claude/claude-speak && echo <number> > ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate.
  • slow: mkdir -p ~/.claude/claude-speak && echo 140 > ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate
  • normal: mkdir -p ~/.claude/claude-speak && echo 180 > ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate
  • fast: mkdir -p ~/.claude/claude-speak && echo 250 > ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate
  • reset: clear back to the system default: rm -f ~/.claude/claude-speak/rate
  • Anything else: don't write anything — tell the user the argument wasn't understood and list the accepted forms above.

This rate applies everywhere speech is used: the automatic /toggle-speak Stop hook, /speak (local mode), and /speak llm.

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. 2d ago First seen · 17 lines · 21 tokens per session scan B 0f64f8336f08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speak-rate is a command published in the GitHub repository JosephScript/claude-speak (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.