talk

A command for starting a real-time conversation with a teammate or another coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a recipient and optional opening message, then send follow-up replies or end the conversation when finished.
Why use it?
It provides a direct channel for coordinating work while the other person or agent is active.

Command

Part of the biff-dev plugin — 24 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks 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/punt-labs/biff/talk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/punt-labs/biff

Or install biff-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 296 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 $0.00010 $0.00296
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 63050c5a0eac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk 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.

plugin/commands/talk.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Input

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse as: first token is the recipient username (strip leading @ if present), remaining tokens are the opening message (optional).

Examples:

  • kaito="kai"
  • kai hey, got a minute?to="kai", message="hey, got a minute?"

Task

  1. Call mcp__plugin_biff_tty__talk with the parsed values.
  2. Incoming messages from the partner appear on the status bar automatically (0-2s). No need to poll or call talk_listen.
  3. When the user wants to reply, send with mcp__plugin_biff_tty__write to the same user.
  4. When the user says to stop, call mcp__plugin_biff_tty__talk_end.

If $ARGUMENTS is "end", call mcp__plugin_biff_tty__talk_end directly.

Do not repeat or reformat tool output — it is already formatted by hooks.

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 · 29 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 63050c5a0eac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

talk is a command published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/biff (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 296 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.