speak

A command for turning spoken feedback on or off and choosing how it should sound. It can also set or clear instructions for voice summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enable voice feedback, select a voice, stop speech, or customize the wording of spoken summaries.
Why use it?
It lets you control whether responses are read aloud without manually editing configuration files.

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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/speak
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 338 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash 66d316ede85a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speak 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/voice/commands/speak.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Enable, disable, or configure voice feedback.

Commands:

  • /speak - Enable voice feedback with current voice
  • /speak <voice> - Set voice (e.g., azure, alba) and enable feedback
  • /speak stop - Disable voice feedback
  • /speak prompt <text> - Set custom instruction for voice summaries
  • /speak prompt - Clear custom prompt

Config file: ~/.claude/voice.local.md

---
voice: azelma
enabled: true
prompt: "always end with 'peace out'"
---

Behavior:

  • When no argument: Set enabled: true and tell user: "Voice feedback enabled. Use /speak stop to disable, or /speak <name> to change voice."
  • When voice name given: Set voice: <name> and enabled: true, tell user: "Voice set to and enabled. Use /speak stop to disable."
  • When stop: Set enabled: false AND just_disabled: true (voice unchanged), tell user: "Voice feedback disabled. Use /speak to re-enable."
  • When prompt <text>: Set prompt: <text>, tell user: "Custom prompt set: "
  • When prompt (no text): Clear the prompt field, tell user: "Custom prompt cleared."

Create the config file if it doesn't exist (default voice: azelma).

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. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 66d316ede85a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speak is a command published in the GitHub repository pchalasani/claude-code-tools (1,986 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 338 tokens. 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.