ElevenLabs — Living Voice

ElevenLabs — Living Voice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from howdeploy/deploychan_mcp. It costs 49 tokens per session (6,776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of writing and voice-setting guidelines for making ElevenLabs text-to-speech sound more natural and expressive.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reshapes text to guide pauses, emphasis, breathing, hesitation, pace, and intonation, and adjusts speed, stability, similarity, and style through the ElevenLabs API.
Why use it?
It helps fix speech that sounds flat, mechanical, or like it is simply reading words aloud.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit It reshapes text to guide pauses, emphasis, breathing, hesitation, pace, and intonation, and adjusts speed, stability, similarity, and style through the ElevenLabs API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/howdeploy/deploychan_mcp/elevenlabs-living-voice
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add howdeploy/deploychan_mcp --skill elevenlabs-living-voice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/howdeploy/deploychan_mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,776 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 5
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00049 $0.06776
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03388
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00678

Measured 11d ago against content hash ec435841cd8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ElevenLabs — Living Voice 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (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.

content/skills/elevenlabs-living-voice/SKILL.md · 674 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 674 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ElevenLabs — Living Voice

Overview

This skill is written for any AI agent that generates text for ElevenLabs, including Claude-tyan. You can hand it to an audience as a universal rule for living TTS delivery, not as a local note for one specific setup.

You need it when text for ElevenLabs sounds too flat, plastic, or "just read out loud." Its job is to make speech alive on two layers at once:

  1. At the text level: rewrite phrases so the model naturally catches pauses, accents, breath, hesitation, and micro-shifts in tempo and intonation.
  2. At the voice-settings level: use the API voice settings as working knobs to lock in user feedback — speed, stability, similarity, style exaggeration.

The core idea is simple: liveliness isn't born from one magic setting, but from the chain right voice → right model → well-written text → careful feedback loop.

Per the official ElevenLabs docs and help materials:

  • Eleven v3 — the most emotional and expressive TTS model layer; well suited for dramatic, warm, characterful delivery.
  • Eleven Multilingual v2 — more stable on long chunks and long-form.
  • For v3, don't rely on SSML break tags — the docs say plainly that v3 doesn't support them; set pauses and coloring through text, punctuation, and audio tags instead.
  • For v2 you can use <break time="Xs" />; it's the most consistent way to get exact pauses, but overdoing break tags can speed up speech and cause artifacts.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • you need to turn an ordinary response into living, speakable text;
  • the voice sounds too fast, too flat, too theatrical, or too dry;
  • the user complains about tempo, liveliness, monotony, lack of emotion, or similarity;
  • you need to decide what to fix in the text and what to fix in the API settings;
  • you need to lock in a good configuration as the current canonical one.

Don't use it as an excuse to mindlessly clutter the text with special characters. If the speech already sounds natural, don't turn it into a theatrical script with constant [sighs] and an ellipsis every other word.

Read the full file on GitHub · 674 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 674 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ec435841cd8c

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ElevenLabs — Living Voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository howdeploy/deploychan_mcp (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 6,776 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.