speaking-coach

speaking-coach is a skill for Claude Code from OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A speaking-practice skill for English exams and proficiency interviews, including IELTS, TOEFL, and CEFR-level tasks. It can create prompts and assess spoken answers supplied as transcripts, recordings, or audio.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise speaking tasks, run a mock interview, generate a cue card, or receive feedback on an answer.
Why use it?
It gives structured practice and feedback matched to the exam format and the speaker's level.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the english-exam-coach plugin — 8 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to practise speaking tasks, run a mock interview, generate a cue card, or receive feedback on an answer.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach
Claude Code
/plugin install english-exam-coach

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install english-exam-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,716 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 $0.00117 $0.01716
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00858
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94477b7a068c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speaking-coach 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 12d 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.

plugins/english-exam-coach/skills/speaking-coach/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Speaking Coach

Terminal-friendly speaking practice: record or perform → transcribe → evaluate. Paths are relative to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} (if unset, resolve relative to the plugin root — the directory two levels above this file, .../plugins/english-exam-coach).

When to use

The user wants a speaking task, mock speaking interview, or feedback on an answer they spoke (pasted as transcript or provided as an audio file).

Steps

  1. Identify exam + level + part. Load data/exam-formats/<exam-id>.md, data/cefr/speaking-descriptors.md, and data/cefr/speaking-calibration-anchors.md (leveled transcript samples). Seed shapes: data/item-bank/seed/speaking-tasks.md (imitate format, never reuse).

  2. Generate the task with the exam's real prep/speaking times (e.g. IELTS Part 2: 1 min prep, 1–2 min talk; TOEFL interview answers: 45 s each with no preparation time). Pitch the prompt's demand to the level (B1 concrete/personal; B2 opinion on a familiar topic; C1 abstract, asks the speaker to weigh/hypothesise; C2 nuanced) — speaking-calibration- anchors.md shows an at-level answer to aim the prompt at. Visual-dependent tasks (Cambridge B1 Part 2 describe-a-photo; B2 First / C1 Advanced Part 2 compare-photographs; C2 Part 2 picture discussion) can't be rendered here; say so and offer a non-visual part instead of faking it. IELTS Speaking uses no visual prompts — its Part 2 is a text cue card and IS fully renderable. The two TOEFL 2026 speaking tasks are single-scenario tasks — generate them as one whole, never as a list of unrelated items:

    • Listen and Repeat — one scenario for all 7 sentences (a library orientation, a campus tour, step-by-step directions), introduced by a short line that is read but not repeated. Sentences grow from ~5–6 words to the upper teens.
    • Take an Interview — open with a brief scenario ("you have agreed to take part in a study about…"), then 4 questions on that one everyday topic: concrete → past experience → opinion → hypothetical. 45 s each is about 90–130 words. See data/item-bank/seed/speaking-tasks.md for worked examples of both. Tell the user how to respond, in order of preference:
    • record themselves (any voice recorder) and paste an accurate transcript, noting hesitations/self-corrections honestly;
    • or speak first and then type from memory (say that this loses fluency information);
    • for a paired-format task (collaborative discussion), play the partner: alternate short turns with the user in chat.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 12d ago First seen · 125 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 94477b7a068c

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speaking-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,716 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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