setup-claudio

A setup guide for adding spoken announcements to Claude Code through text-to-speech, or TTS, which reads written output aloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the voice hooks, choose an output style, set a name, and configure the related Claude Code settings.
Why use it?
It helps users hear about completed tasks, permission requests, and questions without relying only on the terminal screen.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claudio plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kat3samsin/claude-code-plugins/setup-claudio
Any agent
npx skills add kat3samsin/claude-code-plugins --skill setup-claudio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kat3samsin/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claudio, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1d96545a8389, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-claudio scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (setup-claudio.sh), 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

5. Updates your `~/.claude/settings.json`
plugins/claudio/skills/setup-claudio/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Claudio: Talk to Claude Code

This skill sets up an enhanced Claude Code experience with voice output:

  • Audio announcements for task completions, permission requests, and questions
  • Smart permission announcements that tell you exactly what's being requested
  • Four output styles: Full, Concise, Direct, and Conversational
  • Personalized with your name

How to Run

Users can trigger this skill by:

  1. Slash command: /setup-claudio
  2. Ask Claude: "Set up Claudio" or "Make Claude talk"

What It Does

  1. Asks for your name
  2. Lets you choose your preferred style:
    • Full: Detailed responses with comprehensive audio summaries
    • Concise: Brief, efficient responses with short audio
    • Direct: No fluff, no praise, just facts (recommended)
    • Conversational: Natural, friendly dialogue with warm audio
  3. Installs output styles to ~/.claude/output-styles/
  4. Installs TTS hooks for:
    • PermissionRequest: Announces what specific permission is needed
    • Notification: Announces when Claude has a question
    • Stop: Announces when task is complete
  5. Updates your ~/.claude/settings.json
  6. Confirms setup with audio feedback

After Setup

Switch styles anytime by editing ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "outputStyle": "TTS Conversational"
}

Options: "TTS Full", "TTS Concise", "TTS Direct", "TTS Conversational"

Requirements

  • macOS (uses say command for TTS)
  • jq for settings configuration (brew install jq)
  • Optional: Premium voices (System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > System Voice > Manage Voices)

Voice Customization

List available voices:

say -v '?'

Recommended voices:

  • Zoe (Premium) - Australian female (default)
  • Samantha - American female
  • Daniel - British male

Premium voices sound more natural but must be downloaded separately.

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. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 18 tokens per session scan B 1d96545a8389

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-claudio is a skill published in the GitHub repository kat3samsin/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 488 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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