What is superwhisper?

A configuration guide for superwhisper, a macOS app that turns speech into written text and can apply AI processing.

Creating custom superwhisper commands and modes, configuring context and language models, and setting up URL or shell automations.

It helps turn repeated dictation tasks into custom workflows instead of configuring them from scratch each time.

How Haqbani/superwisper configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Haqbani/superwisper. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Haqbani/superwisper/master/.claude/skills/superwhisper/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Haqbani/superwisper

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,320 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00084	$0.03320
Opus 5	$0.00042	$0.01660
Sonnet 5	$0.00017	$0.00664
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00332

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d60b832f48f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superwhisper 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.

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.

.claude/skills/superwhisper/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Superwhisper Custom Command & Mode Builder

This skill helps you create custom commands, modes, and automations for superwhisper, the AI-powered dictation app for macOS.

Quick Start

To create a new custom mode for superwhisper:

Create a JSON mode file in ~/Documents/superwhisper/modes/
Configure the mode with AI instructions, context settings, and voice model
Optionally set up deep links and automations to trigger the mode

Overview of Superwhisper

Superwhisper is an AI-powered dictation tool that converts speech into polished written content. It offers:

Multiple built-in modes: Voice, Message, Email, Note, Super, Meeting, and Custom
Context awareness: Application context, selected text, and clipboard content
Deep link URL schemes: superwhisper:// protocol for automation
Local and cloud models: Voice models (transcription) and language models (AI processing)
File transcription: Process audio/video files (MP3, MP4, WAV)
Speaker separation: Multi-speaker identification in meetings
Custom vocabulary and replacements: Improve recognition accuracy

Instructions

Step 1: Understand the User's Goal

Ask the user what they want to accomplish:

New custom mode: A mode with specific AI instructions (e.g., "translate my speech to Spanish", "format as markdown", "summarize what I said")
Automation workflow: Trigger superwhisper actions from scripts or Apple Shortcuts
Mode configuration: Adjust voice models, language models, context settings, or auto-activation rules
Vocabulary setup: Add custom words or text replacements
File transcription workflow: Set up batch processing or specific transcription pipelines

Step 2: Create Custom Modes

Custom modes are the primary way to extend superwhisper. Each mode is a JSON file stored in ~/Documents/superwhisper/modes/.

CRITICAL: After creating the mode JSON file, you MUST add its key to the modeKeys array in ~/Documents/superwhisper/settings/settings.json.

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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.

10d ago First seen · 352 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 5d60b832f48f

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superwhisper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Haqbani/superwisper (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 3,320 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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