voxtype-install

voxtype-install is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pchalasani/claude-code-tools. It costs 71 tokens per session (902 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An installation guide for voxtype, a macOS app that turns speech into text and types it into the currently focused application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and configure voice dictation for an editor, terminal, or coding-agent prompt, including its engine, activation mode, and hotkey.
Why use it?
It provides setup steps for private, on-device voice typing without sending audio to a cloud service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the voxtype plugin — 1 skill shipped together

About the project

pchalasani/claude-code-tools is a collection of command-line tools, skills, agents, hooks, plugins, and commands for improving work with Claude Code, Codex-CLI, and similar coding agents. It is used by developers who want reusable productivity features and workflows for terminal-based AI coding assistants. The catalogue entries are components of, or extensions for, these coding-agent workflows.

pchalasani/claude-code-tools · 1,989 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 902 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00071 $0.00902
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00090

Measured 5d ago against content hash 54b61aa03598, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

voxtype-install scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

(`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`) or use

Makes network callslowCapability

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

(`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`) or use
plugins/voxtype/skills/voxtype-install/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

voxtype Install Guide

voxtype is a standalone PyPI package for fully on-device voice dictation on macOS. It types transcribed speech into whatever app has focus. No cloud, no accounts, no audio leaving the machine.

Install

One command; it picks the best engine for the machine automatically (Apple-GPU parakeet-mlx on Apple Silicon, CPU parakeet elsewhere):

uv tool install voxtype

If the user doesn't have uv, either install it first (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh) or use pipx install voxtype.

Note: voxtype only works on macOS (it types via macOS accessibility APIs). Tell the user this up front if they are on Linux/Windows.

Configure

Run the interactive wizard — it asks a handful of explained questions (engine, activation mode, hotkey, ...) and writes ~/.config/voxtype/config.toml:

voxtype setup

This must run in the user's own terminal (it is interactive); do not run it through an agent shell. Alternative for hand-editors: voxtype init writes a fully commented sample config instead.

Editing the config directly

All settings live in ~/.config/voxtype/config.toml — every key is optional and the file voxtype init writes is fully commented. You (the agent) can open and edit this file to help the user tune specific options; common ones:

  • engineparakeet-mlx (Apple GPU), parakeet (CPU), or moonshine.
  • modetoggle (hotkey), wake (wake word), or vad (always on).
  • segmentationhold (whole take on toggle-off) or vad (per pause).
  • hotkey — toggle chord, e.g. "<ctrl>+;" (run voxtype hotkey to record one).
  • sounds — set false to silence the start/stop chimes.
  • wake_word / wake_word_aliases, submit_phrases, overlay, paste_hotkey, cancel_hotkey, copy_to_clipboard, and more.

For the full list — every key, its default, and the engine comparison — read the Configuration & CLI reference: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/tools/voxtype/configuration/

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 5d ago First seen · 95 lines · 71 tokens per session scan C 54b61aa03598

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voxtype-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository pchalasani/claude-code-tools (1,989 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 902 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.