audiocpp-host-tts

audiocpp-host-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Elumenotion/GuideAnts. It costs 75 tokens per session (657 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A text-to-speech workflow that sends text to an audio.cpp server running directly on the user's computer. Text-to-speech (TTS) turns written words into spoken audio.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the host audio server, select a served model and voice, and create WAV speech files.
Why use it?
It allows the agent to use speech models supported by the user's own server, including models unavailable in the container environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check the host audio server, select a served model and voice, and create WAV speech files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elumenotion/guideants/audiocpp-host-tts
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 Elumenotion/GuideAnts --skill audiocpp-host-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Elumenotion/GuideAnts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 657 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 $0.00075 $0.00657
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 6d ago against content hash 25c10332f155, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audiocpp-host-tts 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/engine_tool.py, scripts/preflight.py), 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.

samples/guides/Audiocpp/Skills/audiocpp-host-tts/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

audio.cpp host-native engine (experimental)

The sandbox can reach an audiocpp_server the user runs natively on the host — same raw API as the container engines, but with whatever models and loaders their build has (e.g. a fork compiled with Kokoro enabled). Deliverables are WAV files in Output/.

Preflight

python3 Skills/audiocpp-host-tts/scripts/preflight.py --for host-tts

Resolution order: AUDIOCPP_ENGINE_URL env (set via the guide editor's Environment variables UI), else http://host.docker.internal:8080. The preflight also distinguishes a real audio engine from a llama-server that happens to answer /health on the same port.

Synthesizing

--model is required — there is no wrapper to auto-detect from:

python3 Skills/audiocpp-host-tts/scripts/engine_tool.py speech "Hello" \
  --engine-url http://host.docker.internal:8080 --model <engine-model-id> \
  -o hello.wav [--voice <id>] [--seed 42] [--language en] [--voice-ref ...]

List the models the host build serves: GET <base>/v1/models; voices: engine_tool.py voices --engine-url <base> --model <id>.

The consent rule applies to --voice-ref cloning here too: proceed for the user's own voice or a consenting speaker; decline third-party imitation.

Hard limit: TTS only

The host engine's /v1/audio/transcriptions takes a server-local path in its JSON body — files in this sandbox are not visible to the host process, so transcription against the host engine cannot work from here. Use the container ASR (the audiocpp-asr-extended skill) instead.

Troubleshooting

Symptom Likely cause What to do
Unreachable Server not bound to 0.0.0.0, or Windows Firewall blocking the Docker adapter Ask the user to check both
/health 200 but no /v1/audio/* A llama-server on that port, not audiocpp Ask which port their audio.cpp build listens on
Model errors Family/option mismatch in their build Surface the engine's error text — it names the problem

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

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. 6d ago Changed 25c10332f155
  2. 10d ago First seen · 64 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 63908815b9d8

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audiocpp-host-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository Elumenotion/GuideAnts (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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