tts-setup

tts-setup is a skill for Claude Code from chendrizzy/claude-tts. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,820 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A setup procedure for a text-to-speech tool, which converts written text into spoken audio, on a new computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing the claude-tts plugin for the first time on macOS or Linux, or when checking whether its setup is healthy.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of installing the speech engine, language-model connection, background service, and configuration, while checking each step before continuing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 claude-tts plugin — 1 skill, 8 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when installing the claude-tts plugin for the first time on macOS or Linux, or when checking whether its setup is healthy.

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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 chendrizzy/claude-tts
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-tts

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-tts, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands, 5 hooks.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,820 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00045 $0.01820
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00910
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00182

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0a71907f0e45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

tts-setup scanned grade C with 2 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 8d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

If `command -v uv` fails, install it: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

If `command -v uv` fails, install it: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`.
skills/tts-setup/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

claude-tts — First-Run Setup

First-run setup for the claude-tts plugin, invoked by /tts:setup. It is idempotent and re-runnable; /tts:doctor re-checks health anytime.

Fail-stop contract: run the steps in order. After each step, verify it succeeded. If a step cannot complete, report which step failed and the single most likely remediation, then STOP — do not continue past a failed step. Never hardcode absolute personal paths; the config dir is ~/.config/claude-tts and the socket is ${CLAUDE_TTS_SOCKET:-${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/claude-tts.sock}.

Let ROOT = the plugin/daemon root (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} when invoked as a plugin). Run all Python through the project's uv venv: uv run python ....

Step 1 — Detect platform + architecture

Run uname -s (Darwin/Linux) and uname -m (arm64/x86_64). Record both. On Darwin+arm64 the machine is Apple Silicon (Kokoro is available). Background service install is automated on both platforms (launchd on macOS, systemd --user on Linux); Step 7 falls back to a manual launch only when no systemd user session is present.

Step 2 — Ensure uv + environment

If command -v uv fails, install it: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh. Then create the env and install deps from ROOT: uv sync --extra edge (this project is a uv-managed application — its dependencies live in pyproject.toml and the default edge-tts engine is the edge extra; there is no requirements.txt). Verify uv run python -c "import edge_tts" succeeds. Remediation on failure: ensure network access and that ~/.local/bin is on PATH.

Step 3 — Choose the speech engine

Default: edge-tts (cross-platform, no ML deps). If Apple Silicon, offer Kokoro (uv run python -c "import mlx_audio" to check; the MLX model pulls on first use). If a Voicebox app is reachable at its configured URL, offer voicebox. Record the chosen engine and a default voice_name (en-US-AvaNeural for edge-tts).

If no ML engine is available and uv sync --extra edge cannot install edge-tts (e.g. offline), choose say (macOS) / espeak (Linux) — the zero-dependency system engine. It always produces audio on a bare machine (using the OS default voice; voice_name is ignored for this engine).

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 8d ago First seen · 131 lines · 45 tokens per session scan C 0a71907f0e45

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tts-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository chendrizzy/claude-tts (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,820 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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