txtify-transcribe

txtify-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lkmeta/txtify. It costs 88 tokens per session (4,829 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A transcription skill that turns local audio or video files, or a single YouTube video, into text or subtitle files using a self-hosted Txtify service. Txtify is an open-source web app based on Whisper, a speech-recognition model, and can export TXT, SRT, VTT, SBV, or PDF.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe a recording or video, select a spoken language and model, optionally translate with DeepL, and save the result in a chosen format.
Why use it?
It lets users create transcripts and subtitles on their own machine instead of sending media to a public website.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to transcribe a recording or video, select a spoken language and model, optionally translate with DeepL, and save the result in a chosen format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lkmeta/txtify/txtify-transcribe
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 lkmeta/txtify --skill txtify-transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lkmeta/txtify

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,829 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00088 $0.04829
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01932
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00966
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00483

Measured today against content hash dc89ca0292f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

txtify-transcribe scanned grade A 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Terminal | run `curl` and `docker` | always (else use the browser fallback) |
skills/txtify-transcribe/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Txtify transcribe

Txtify is a free, open-source (Apache-2.0) web app that transcribes audio and video with OpenAI's Whisper models (via stable-ts) and exports txt, srt, vtt, sbv and pdf. It runs as one Docker container on port 8011. This skill drives a Txtify instance on the user's own machine through the same HTTP endpoints its web page uses.

Project: https://github.com/lkmeta/txtify · Website and live demo: https://txtify.lkmeta.com

What this skill does and does not do

  • Does: local file or single YouTube video → transcript/subtitles, choice of Whisper model and spoken language, optional DeepL translation, save results where the user says.
  • Does not: speaker diarization, live/microphone transcription, batch folders, or playlists. Txtify has no documented, versioned public API: the endpoints below are the ones its own web page calls. If a call returns something this skill does not describe, stop and use the browser fallback.
  • Never sends media to the public website. https://txtify.lkmeta.com is a live demo of how Txtify works (the site itself says to self-host for real, private transcription), so it's no place for the user's files.

Access this skill needs

Ask before each item that is not already allowed in this session.

Access Why When
Terminal run curl and docker always (else use the browser fallback)
http://127.0.0.1:8011 talk to the local Txtify always
Docker + Docker Hub pull lkmeta/txtify (about 2-3 GB) and run it only if Txtify isn't running
Read the chosen media file upload it to the local Txtify per job
Write to a folder the user picks save the exports per job
Internet from the container Whisper weights download on first use of each model (tiny about 75 MB, large about 3 GB); YouTube download for URL jobs; DeepL only if translation is on see step 3

What leaves the machine: YouTube URL jobs fetch the video from YouTube. Translation sends the transcript text to DeepL with the user's key. Model weights are downloaded once. Transcription itself (Whisper) runs locally. Nothing is sent to Agensi or to the skill author.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. today First seen · 239 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A dc89ca0292f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

txtify-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository lkmeta/txtify (135 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 4,829 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-28.

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