audio-transcription

audio-transcription is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini. It costs 42 tokens per session (631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning audio and video files into structured notes in Obsidian, a note-taking app. It supports common formats such as MP3, WAV, MP4, and MOV, with a 20 MB file limit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe meetings, podcasts, voice memos, and other recordings, adding summaries, timestamps, speaker labels, and links to the original file.
Why use it?
It saves the effort of listening through recordings and manually organizing their content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to transcribe meetings, podcasts, voice memos, and other recordings, adding summaries, timestamps, speaker labels, and links to the original file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini/audio-transcription
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.

Any agent
npx skills add allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini --skill audio-transcription
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 631 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5c83edcc0566, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audio-transcription 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 12d 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.

prompts/bundled-skills/audio-transcription/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audio & Video Transcription

Transcribe audio and video files from the vault into structured Obsidian notes using read_file to send binary media directly to the model.

Supported Formats

Audio: .wav, .mp3, .aac, .flac, .webm (audio-only) Video: .mp4, .mpeg, .mov, .flv, .mpg, .webm, .wmv, .3gp

Size limit: 20 MB per file (Gemini inline data limit).

How to Transcribe

  1. Use read_file with the path to the audio/video file — the binary data is sent directly to the model for processing.
  2. Listen to/watch the content and produce a transcription.
  3. Use write_file to save the transcription as a markdown note.

Transcription Format

Structure transcriptions as follows:

---
tags:
  - transcription
source: "[[original-file.mp3]]"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
duration: "MM:SS" (estimate if possible)
---

# Transcription: [Title]

## Summary

Brief 2-3 sentence summary of the content.

## Transcript

[00:00] Speaker 1: Opening remarks...

[00:45] Speaker 2: Response...

[01:30] Speaker 1: Follow-up...

Guidelines

  • Timestamps: Include approximate timestamps in [MM:SS] format at natural breaks (new speakers, topic changes, pauses).
  • Speaker identification: Label distinct speakers as "Speaker 1", "Speaker 2", etc. If names are mentioned, use them after first identification.
  • Filler words: Omit excessive filler words (um, uh, like) unless they carry meaning.
  • Inaudible sections: Mark unclear audio as [inaudible] or [unclear].
  • Non-speech sounds: Note significant sounds like [laughter], [applause], [music].
  • Summary: Always include a brief summary at the top for quick reference.
  • Frontmatter: Link back to the source file using a wikilink.

Tips

  • For long recordings, let the user know the transcription may be partial due to the 20 MB size limit. Suggest splitting large files with an external tool.
  • If the user asks to "transcribe the recording in this note", use read_file on the current note first to find embedded audio/video links (e.g., ![[recording.mp3]]), then read_file on the linked file.
  • For meeting notes, suggest adding attendees and action items sections after the transcript.
  • For podcasts or interviews, suggest adding a "Key Topics" section with timestamps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 67 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 5c83edcc0566

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audio-transcription is a skill published in the GitHub repository allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini (524 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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