zai-tts

zai-tts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from opencue/cuecards. It costs 87 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of zai-tts, MIT.

A text-to-speech tool that turns written text into spoken audio using the GLM-TTS service. It can save the result as an audio file and supports selectable voices and speech settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create voice audio from text or text files for listening, presentations, accessibility, or other spoken-content workflows.
Why use it?
It makes written content usable when listening is more convenient or improves accessibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create voice audio from text or text files for listening, presentations, accessibility, or other spoken-content workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencue/cuecards/zai-tts
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 opencue/cuecards --skill zai-tts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00087 $0.00429
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00172
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00043

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c42faa51bcd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zai-tts 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to zai-tts — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/zai-tts/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Zai-TTS

Generate high-quality text-to-speech audio using GLM-TTS service via the uvx zai-tts command. Before using this skill, you need to configure the environment variables ZAI_AUDIO_USERID and ZAI_AUDIO_TOKEN, which can be obtained by login audio.z.ai and executing localStorage['auth-storage'] in the console via F12 Developer Tools.

Usage

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav
uvx zai-tts -f path/to/file.txt -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav

Changing speed, volume

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --speed 1.5
uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --speed 1.5 --volume 2

Changing the voice

uvx zai-tts -t "{msg}" -o {tempdir}/{filename}.wav --voice system_002

Available voices

system_001: Lila. A cheerful, standard-pronunciation female voice system_002: Chloe. A gentle, elegant, intelligent female voice system_003: Ethan. A sunny, standard-pronunciation male voice

Retrieve all available voices using shell commands:

uvx zai-tts -l

If you want to use custom voices, please complete voice cloning on the website audio.z.ai first.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A c42faa51bcd1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zai-tts is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to zai-tts, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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