voice-update

voice-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pchalasani/claude-code-tools. It costs 47 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for giving the user short spoken updates using a text-to-speech tool, which converts written text into audio.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to speak a brief summary of completed work or an important status update.
Why use it?
It provides an audible summary when a task finishes, when a stop hook requests one, or when the user asks to hear an update.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the voice 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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/voice-update
Any agent
npx skills add pchalasani/claude-code-tools --skill voice-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00047 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00041

Measured 4d ago against content hash b2b0d698a142, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voice-update 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 4d 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/voice/skills/voice-update/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Voice Update Skill

Provide spoken audio feedback to the user using pocket-tts.

When to Use

  • When finishing a task and a Stop hook reminds to give voice feedback
  • When the user explicitly asks for a spoken summary
  • When providing important status updates that benefit from audio

How to Use

  1. Summarize what was accomplished in 1-2 short, conversational sentences
  2. Call the say script with the summary text

Calling the Say Script

Use Bash to call the say script:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say "Your summary here"

Example:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say "I've fixed the bug in the login handler and added the unit tests."

With a specific voice:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/say --voice azure "Task completed successfully."

Summary Guidelines

  • Keep it to 1-2 sentences maximum
  • Be conversational, not robotic
  • Match the user's communication style - if they're casual or use colorful language, mirror that tone
  • Focus on what was accomplished, not technical details
  • Avoid code snippets, file paths, or technical jargon
  • Examples:
    • "I've updated the configuration file and restarted the server."
    • "The tests are now passing. I fixed three type errors."
    • "Done! I created the new component and added it to the main page."

Notes

  • The say script auto-starts the pocket-tts server if not running (first use may take ~30-60s)
  • Requires uvx and afplay (macOS) or aplay (Linux)
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. 4d ago First seen · 55 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A b2b0d698a142

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voice-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository pchalasani/claude-code-tools (1,989 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 407 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.