local-transcript

local-transcript is a skill for Claude Code from johnqtcg/awesome-skills. It costs 139 tokens per session (4,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local-media transcription skill that turns audio or video files into cleaned text, PDF, or Word documents. It uses speech recognition and can optionally proofread the result with a language model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with local files such as MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, MP3, or M4A to create TXT, PDF, or DOCX transcripts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to transcribe recordings manually and provides cleaned output in common document formats.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it with local files such as MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, MP3, or M4A to create TXT, PDF, or DOCX transcripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/local-transcript
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 johnqtcg/awesome-skills --skill local-transcript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnqtcg/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,161 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 $0.00139 $0.04161
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.02080
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00832
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00416

Measured 8d ago against content hash afe15596e24c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-transcript 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/local_transcript.py, scripts/make_reference_corpus.py, scripts/run_quality_eval.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.

skills/local-transcript/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local Transcript

Overview

Use this skill to turn a local media file into cleaned final transcript files in .txt, .pdf, or .docx format. Extract audio with ffmpeg, transcribe with mlx-whisper (Apple Silicon GPU) or faster-whisper (CPU fallback), then clean the transcript with deterministic replacements for known ASR bugs. LLM contextual proofreading is an opt-in second layer (--llm-backend local|claude) — see §LLM Proofreading Is Opt-In for why it is not the default.

Workflow

  1. Validate the input path.
  2. Confirm the requested output format.
  3. Check dependencies.
  4. Resolve the ASR mode: fast, balanced, or accurate.
  5. Reuse cached audio/raw transcript/clean transcript layers when available.
  6. Extract or reuse 16 kHz mono WAV audio.
  7. Transcribe with the selected ASR backend (language auto-detected or user-specified via --language).
  8. Clean the transcript: simplified Chinese → deterministic replacements → (opt-in) LLM proofreading → post-LLM safety replacements.
  9. Paragraphize and write the requested final file(s).

Format Resolution Gate

  • If the user explicitly requests txt, pdf, or word/docx, use that format directly.
  • If the user requests multiple formats, generate all requested formats from the same cleaned transcript.
  • If the user asks to transcribe a file but does not specify an output format, ask a short follow-up question before execution: Which output format do you want: txt, pdf, or docx?
  • Do not guess the output format from context alone when the user did not say.

Dependency Gate

Before running, verify:

  • ffmpeg
  • local Python execution for scripts/local_transcript.py This is an Apple-Silicon-first tool. Say so rather than presenting the fallbacks as an equivalent path — they are usable, not seamless.
Platform ASR LLM proofreading Chinese PDF
Apple Silicon mlx-whisper (GPU/ANE), default mlx-lm + Qwen2.5, opt-in, no API key macOS system CJK fonts found automatically
Intel Mac / Linux / Windows --backend faster-whisper (CPU, markedly slower) only --llm-backend claude (needs the claude CLI); local requires MLX must install a CJK font; the built-in candidates are macOS paths

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 8d ago First seen · 312 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A afe15596e24c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnqtcg/awesome-skills (30 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 4,161 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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