speak

speak is a command for Claude Code from shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator. It costs 5 tokens per session (205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reads text aloud when you ask for it, even if the narrator is turned off.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to hear supplied text or a brief summary of the last action or response. It requires the Kokoro speech software to be installed.
Why use it?
It provides spoken output for a specific request without changing the narrator’s enabled setting. Long text is shortened to a concise summary before being spoken.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the narrator plugin — 6 skills, 6 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to hear supplied text or a brief summary of the last action or response. It requires the Kokoro speech software to be installed.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator
Claude Code
/plugin install narrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install narrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands, 3 hooks.

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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 205 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00005 $0.00205
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00020

Measured 9d ago against content hash 88d63fe08f79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

commands/speak.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

On-Demand Speech

Speak text aloud on demand, regardless of whether narrator is currently enabled.

Usage

If the user provides specific text to speak, pipe it directly:

echo "TEXT_TO_SPEAK" | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/speak.sh" --force

If the user does not provide specific text, summarize the last action or response and speak that summary:

echo "SUMMARY_TEXT" | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/speak.sh" --force

The --force flag bypasses the enabled check, allowing speech even when narrator is turned off.

Important

  • Always use --force for on-demand speak requests
  • Keep spoken text concise -- summarize if the text is very long
  • Ensure Kokoro is installed before attempting to speak (check with python3 -c "import kokoro")
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. 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 88d63fe08f79

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speak is a command published in the GitHub repository shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator (26 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 205 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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