A command for starting an ongoing spoken conversation with the user.

Use it to begin a voice session, optionally choosing a voice and an opening message.

It lets the agent communicate by voice when typing is inconvenient or a live conversation is preferred.

converse — Command by mbailey

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/mbailey/voicemode/converse

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mbailey/voicemode

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 466 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00005	$0.00466
Opus 5	$0.00003	$0.00233
Sonnet 5	$0.00001	$0.00093
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 359f3d7f6939, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

converse scanned grade A with 0 findings 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/converse.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

/voicemode:converse

Start an ongoing voice conversation with the user using the voicemode:converse MCP tool.

Implementation

Call the voicemode:converse MCP tool. Argument handling:

$1 — optional voice name (e.g. af_river, samantha, nova). If non-empty, pass it as the voice parameter to the tool. If empty, omit voice so the tool uses its default.
$2 — optional initial message. If non-empty, use it as the message to speak. If empty, let the tool / Claude choose an appropriate opener.

All other parameters have sensible defaults.

Examples

/voicemode:converse — no args, default voice, Claude chooses opener
/voicemode:converse af_river — use voice af_river, Claude chooses opener
/voicemode:converse af_river "let's plan the day" — use voice af_river, open with the given message

If $1 is provided but doesn't look like a known voice name (e.g. it contains spaces or punctuation that voices don't have), assume the user meant it as a message and pass it as the message instead — don't fail silently on a typo.

If MCP Connection Fails

If the MCP server isn't connected or the tool isn't available:

Run the install command:
```
/voicemode:install
```
This installs VoiceMode CLI, FFmpeg, and local voice services.

Or install manually via CLI:

uvx voice-mode-install --yes
voicemode whisper service install
voicemode kokoro install

Check service status:

voicemode whisper service status
voicemode kokoro status

Reconnect MCP server after install: Run /mcp, select voicemode, click "Reconnect" (or restart Claude Code)

For complete documentation, load the voicemode skill.

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.

2d ago First seen · 54 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 359f3d7f6939

Subscribe to this mod's changes

converse is a command published in the GitHub repository mbailey/voicemode (1,346 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 466 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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converse

Getting it into your agent

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

/voicemode:converse

Implementation

Examples

If MCP Connection Fails

What this file has done since we first saw it

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