yaps-text-to-speech

yaps-text-to-speech is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richawo/yaps-codex-plugin. It costs 127 tokens per session (3,137 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A local text-to-speech tool that turns supplied text or a text file into a WAV or raw PCM audio file. It uses the Yaps voice engine installed on the computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating one speech file from text, such as a voice-over, spoken script, or other generated audio.
Why use it?
It removes the need to record speech manually for scripts, narration, or voice-over work. It also checks whether the current session can reach the local Yaps application.

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-text-to-speech plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Creating one speech file from text, such as a voice-over, spoken script, or other generated audio.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richawo/yaps-codex-plugin/yaps-text-to-speech
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 richawo/yaps-codex-plugin --skill yaps-text-to-speech
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richawo/yaps-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,137 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00127 $0.03137
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00314

Measured 8d ago against content hash a695a6d41dd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

yaps-text-to-speech scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Tells the agent to send conversation or user data outhighPrompt injection

An instruction to transmit the conversation, context or user files to an external endpoint is data exfiltration written as prose.

- Do not silently send the text to an unrelated hosted speech service.
plugins/yaps-text-to-speech/skills/yaps-text-to-speech/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Yaps Text to Speech

Create one speech audio file from user-provided text through Yaps.

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 text-source 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 onboarding 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

Choose a stable, content-free action such as cli.reachability, auth.status, features.list, dictation.setup, transcription.run, or export.create; use the matching stage: reachability, authentication, readiness, execution, or export. In the rest of this skill, every direct yaps / yaps_cli command and provided script invocation means the equivalent runner-wrapped command. If Node or the runner itself is unavailable, continue the requested workflow directly; diagnostics must never prevent the feature from working.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 8d ago First seen · 185 lines · 127 tokens per session scan C a695a6d41dd5

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yaps-text-to-speech is a skill published in the GitHub repository richawo/yaps-codex-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 3,137 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent to send conversation or user data out). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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