transcribe

transcribe is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local tool that turns audio recordings into Markdown text using speech-recognition software.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for transcribing m4a, mp3, wav, ogg, or flac files, with optional timestamps and language or model choices.
Why use it?
It keeps recordings private and avoids needing an API or graphics processor to transcribe them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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 convert plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for transcribing m4a, mp3, wav, ogg, or flac files, with optional timestamps and language or model choices.

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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 digital-stoic-org/agent-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install convert

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install convert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 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 $0.00000 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0e96ea0f9a75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcribe 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/transcribe.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

convert/skills/transcribe/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Transcribe audio → markdown (local, whisper.cpp)

Local CPU transcription, language auto-detected (multilingual; tuned for EN/FR), no API/GPU. Output: markdown with frontmatter + full text + timestamps. The wrapper scripts/transcribe.sh self-discovers whisper.cpp ($WHISPER_DIR~/tools/whisper.cpp~/whisper.cpp/opt/whisper.cpp). Invoke it via the plugin root: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh.

Instructions

  1. Resolve the audio file from the request ($ARGUMENTS). Accept m4a/mp3/wav/ogg/flac; if none given, ask.
  2. Ensure the pipeline exists — probe once: bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh" --help >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?. Exit 2 (or "whisper.cpp not found") → follow setup.md to build it (warn: one-time ~10-min build + ~1.5 GB download), then continue.
  3. Run: bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh" "<audio-path>" (output defaults to <input>.md). Flags on request: --lang fr|en, --model small|large-v3 (only medium ships by default — others must be downloaded first, see setup.md), --no-timestamps, custom output as 2nd positional arg.
  4. Set expectations: a 10–20 min file takes several minutes on CPU — let it run.
  5. When done: Read the .md and show a short preview (frontmatter + first lines).

Notes

  • WSL-safe: wrapper does all decode/temp in native /tmp; only final .md + source may live on /mnt/c.
  • Non-standard install: export WHISPER_DIR=/path/to/whisper.cpp.
  • Frontmatter fields, limitations, and upgrade paths (diarization, word-level timestamps, long files): see setup.md § Reference.
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 28 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0e96ea0f9a75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 604 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.

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