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.
npx agentmods add skills/jason-c-dev/claude-code-speak/speech-setupnpx skills add jason-c-dev/claude-code-speak --skill speech-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jason-c-dev/claude-code-speakWhat 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 | $0.00038 | $0.01448 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00724 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00290 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00145 |
Grade C, and why
speech-setup scanned grade C with 3 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 yesterday.
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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
chmod 600 ~/.claude/voice/.env Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
test -s ~/.claude/voice/.env && grep -q '^DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=' ~/.claude/voice/.env && echo HAVE || echo MISSING Runs shell commandslowCapability
Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.
import subprocess; subprocess.run(['afplay', str(p)]) How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Claude Speech — Setup Skill
You are walking the user through configuring (or reconfiguring) the Claude Speech plugin. Be concise. One short prompt at a time. Use the Bash tool for commands and the Edit/Write tools for files. Do NOT speak to them via the plugin during setup — that's the smoke test at the end.
The plugin lives at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}. Per-user data and secrets live at ~/.claude/voice/.
Step 1 — Pre-flight
Run:
python3 --version
Confirm Python ≥ 3.10. If lower, stop and tell the user to install a newer Python.
Then:
python3 -c "import claude_agent_sdk" 2>/dev/null && echo OK || python3 -m pip install claude-agent-sdk
If it fails, fall back to pip install claude-agent-sdk and report the error if that also fails.
Step 2 — Deepgram API key (optional)
Check whether ~/.claude/voice/.env already contains DEEPGRAM_API_KEY. Use:
test -s ~/.claude/voice/.env && grep -q '^DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=' ~/.claude/voice/.env && echo HAVE || echo MISSING
If MISSING, ask the user:
"Do you have a Deepgram API key? (Paste it now to enable Aura-2 voice quality, or say 'skip' to use the macOS
sayfallback only.)"
If they paste a key, write it to ~/.claude/voice/.env:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/voice
printf 'DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=%s\n' "<KEY_FROM_USER>" >> ~/.claude/voice/.env
chmod 600 ~/.claude/voice/.env
If they skip, set primary_tts: "say" in the next step's config.
Step 3 — Voice picker
Present these six curated Aura-2 voices with one-liners:
aura-2-thalia-en— clear, confident, energetic American female (default)aura-2-orion-en— approachable American maleaura-2-luna-en— friendly young-adult American femaleaura-2-zeus-en— deep, trustworthy American maleaura-2-pandora-en— smooth, calm British femaleaura-2-asteria-en— knowledgeable, energetic American female
Ask: "Which voice would you like? (Or paste any other Aura-2 model id, e.g.
aura-2-callista-en.)" Default to aura-2-thalia-en.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 173 lines · 38 tokens per session scan C 9b3f06d006f7
speech-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository jason-c-dev/claude-code-speak (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,448 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (asks for root, reads agent configuration directories, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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