audiobook

audiobook is a skill for Claude Code from nicograef/handbook. It costs 51 tokens per session (930 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for researching and writing an explanatory audiobook about a software project or another subject, then packaging it as an EPUB for ElevenReader. An EPUB is a standard ebook file, and ElevenReader is an app for listening to written content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Learning a codebase or topic by listening, creating research-backed chapters, and producing an ElevenReader-ready audiobook manuscript.
Why use it?
Technical documentation often explains what a system does without building a listener’s understanding of why it works that way. This organizes research, structure, writing, and review before producing the ebook.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the nico plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Learning a codebase or topic by listening, creating research-backed chapters, and producing an ElevenReader-ready audiobook manuscript.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicograef/handbook/audiobook
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 nicograef/handbook --skill audiobook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicograef/handbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nico, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for audiobook

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 930 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.
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 $0.00051 $0.00930
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00372
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 18d ago against content hash 7dcb097cce8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audiobook 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 18d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (check-terms.sh, md-to-epub.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.

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.

plugin/skills/audiobook/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audiobook

Subject: $ARGUMENTS. All files live in the output dir, default audiobook/.

Hard rules

  • The book is the gap: what the docs assume but never explain. Rewrite from the concept; never restate a doc or tour the repo.
  • No length target, and no trimming to hit one. Chapters that shrink each review round mean reviewers compress by habit; revert.
  • Every theory claim traces to sources.md with URL and date; nothing from memory.
  • The checkpoint is the only interaction. Afterwards decide, record it under "Assumptions" in PLAN.md, and keep going.
  • ElevenReader narrates everything in the EPUB. Chapters hold no code block, table, diagram, URL or footnote; resolve them into prose.
  • The Lua filter only deletes what slipped through; it does not translate.
  • Book prose is exempt from the sentence and paragraph caps.
  • book.epub is a gitignored build artifact; the chapter Markdown is the source. Upload nothing.

Steps

  1. Scope from the argument and the repo. A whole-repo subject narrows to the subsystem carrying the most concepts.
  2. Inventory the code and docs on the subject. Name the gaps: missing theory, silent decisions, open questions.
  3. Checkpoint before research, the first expensive step. Propose defaults for scope (in and out), guiding questions and prior knowledge. A bare "ja" starts the run. Write the answers to BRIEF.md. Chapters, order, depth, terms and length are derived, never asked.
  4. Research each open question through the nico:web-researcher agent. Prior knowledge sets how far back the theory reaches.
  5. Write PLAN.md: chapters in concept-dependency order, never repo layout, each with its question and prerequisites. Every guiding question is covered. Write terms.yml (term: NN-slug.md, the chapter that explains it) and meta.yml (title, creator, lang).
  6. Write the chapters as NN-slug.md with one H1 each. Anchor every concept in a named file or decision.
  7. Review in three rounds, one dimension each. An edit outside its dimension is a defect.
    • A, correctness, per chapter: check against the code and sources.md. An unsourced claim gets a source or goes.
    • B, structure and terms, once over the book: fix every ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/check-terms.sh <dir> hit by moving the explanation or the chapter.
    • C, language and flow, per chapter: no claim, term, order or length changes. Re-check its changed claims against sources.md; revert breaks to the B wording.
  8. Render with ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/md-to-epub.sh --strict <dir> <dir>/book.epub. A finding is a chapter bug: fix the chapter, re-render.
  9. Report the assumptions, every unverified claim, and every drift from BRIEF.md with its reason. Advise a multilingual ElevenReader voice; a German-only one mangles English terms.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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audiobook is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicograef/handbook (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 930 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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