voice-agents

voice-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building software that listens and speaks in real time, either through one speech-to-speech model or separate speech recognition, language, and voice systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build voice assistants for websites, phones, mobile apps, kiosks, or accessibility features.
Why use it?
It helps you choose an approach based on response speed, natural turn-taking, model choice, cost, and control. It also addresses interruptions during speech and tool use while talking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build voice assistants for websites, phones, mobile apps, kiosks, or accessibility features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnpiyush/agentx/voice-agents
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 jnPiyush/AgentX --skill voice-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,323 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: 2 findings, 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 Memory Poisoning · line 99
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 110
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00093 $0.01323
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00529
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4fbac3be3eee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voice-agents 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 1mo 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.

.github/skills/ai-systems/voice-agents/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Voice Agents

Purpose: Build voice experiences that feel like a phone call, not a chatbot reading aloud.


When to Use This Skill

  • Real-time voice assistants (web, mobile, kiosk)
  • Telephony agents (inbound / outbound calls, IVR replacement)
  • Multimodal copilots that speak and listen
  • Accessibility features that require interruption / barge-in

Architecture Choice

Speech-to-Speech (S2S, single model)
   audio in -> [Realtime model] -> audio out
   Pros: <500ms latency, natural prosody, can hear tone
   Cons: fewer model choices, higher cost, fewer guardrail hooks

Cascaded
   audio in -> [STT] -> [LLM] -> [TTS] -> audio out
   Pros: any LLM, full control, cheaper, easier guardrails
   Cons: 800-1500ms latency, lost prosody, brittle endpointing

Pick S2S when latency and natural turn-taking dominate. Pick cascaded when you need a specific LLM, tighter cost control, or richer logging.


Provider Snapshot (April 2026)

Provider Mode Notes
OpenAI Realtime / GPT Realtime S2S WebRTC, voice activity detection, function calling
Azure Voice Live S2S Foundry-integrated, Azure RAI controls
Gemini Live S2S Multimodal (audio + video), tool use
Deepgram Voice Agent S2S Telephony focus, low latency
ElevenLabs Conversational AI S2S Best TTS quality, broad voice catalog
Cartesia, Rime, Deepgram Aura TTS For cascaded pipelines
AssemblyAI, Deepgram Nova STT For cascaded pipelines
LiveKit Agents, Pipecat, Vocode Orchestration Wire the pipeline together

Latency Budget

End-to-end target for natural conversation: <800ms mouth-close to mouth-open.

Stage Cascaded budget S2S budget
Endpointing (silence detection) 200-300ms 100-200ms
STT first-token 150-300ms n/a
LLM first-token 200-500ms 200-500ms
TTS first-audio 150-300ms bundled
Network jitter 50-150ms 50-150ms

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed 4fbac3be3eee
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 7f49271ff359

Subscribe to this mod's changes

voice-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,323 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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