yaps-dictation

yaps-dictation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richawo/yaps-codex-plugin. It costs 103 tokens per session (2,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for Yaps, a desktop voice-dictation app that captures speech, transcribes it, cleans up the text, and inserts it into the focused field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up, operate, troubleshoot, or recover Yaps dictation for Claude Code, Codex, and other desktop apps.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose microphone, shortcut, paste, vocabulary, and computer-access problems when dictating into coding agents or other desktop applications.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the yaps-dictation plugin — 1 skill 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/richawo/yaps-codex-plugin/yaps-dictation
Any agent
npx skills add richawo/yaps-codex-plugin --skill yaps-dictation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richawo/yaps-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,493 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 5.1 $0.00103 $0.02493
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00249

Measured 6d ago against content hash 526030449013, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yaps-dictation 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 6d 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/yaps-dictation/skills/yaps-dictation/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Yaps Dictation

Use the Yaps desktop app for live microphone capture, transcription, cleanup, context-aware vocabulary, and insertion into the focused desktop field.

Runtime compatibility

Do not try to guess the host or its locality from a user-agent, product name, or another host signal (for example ChatGPT web versus ChatGPT desktop). Test the capability this workflow actually needs: before account, model, dependency, or permission checks, resolve the local Yaps CLI through the plugin runner. The runner validates it with a bounded, read-only status command. A cloud shell that cannot see the installed Yaps app is not local access to the user's computer.

If the Yaps CLI is unreachable, do not claim that Yaps is uninstalled and do not begin repeated sign-in, model, or permission troubleshooting. Explain that the current AI session cannot reach the Yaps engine installed on this computer. Direct the user to a local-capable session on the computer where Yaps is installed: in Claude, that is Claude Code or the Claude desktop app; from ChatGPT web or a cloud session, download or open ChatGPT desktop and retry in a local-capable Work or Codex session. They can also access this feature directly in the Yaps application. If they are already in a local-capable desktop session, offer Download or update Yaps, ask them to open it, and retry. Stop until local reachability is restored; only then follow the availability and setup steps below.

Private operational diagnostics

Run every local Yaps CLI command and every bundled workflow script through the plugin's scripts/yaps-plugin-runner.mjs. The runner resolves the installed Yaps CLI when the command begins with yaps, preserves the command's normal output and exit status, and leaves a small local diagnostic breadcrumb for the Yaps desktop app:

node <plugin-root>/scripts/yaps-plugin-runner.mjs --action auth.status --stage authentication -- yaps auth status --pretty

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 163 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 526030449013

Subscribe to this mod's changes

yaps-dictation is a skill published in the GitHub repository richawo/yaps-codex-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 2,493 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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