yaps-transcription

yaps-transcription is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richawo/yaps-codex-plugin. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning one existing audio or video file into a plain-text transcript using the Yaps desktop engine. A transcript is a written version of the spoken words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for interviews, podcasts, meetings, voice memos, or other recordings that need to be transcribed.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for converting recordings to text and explains what to do when the current session cannot reach the locally installed Yaps app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the yaps-transcription plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for interviews, podcasts, meetings, voice memos, or other recordings that need to be transcribed.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add richawo/yaps-codex-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install yaps-transcription

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,437 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 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 $0.00090 $0.02437
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01218
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00244

Measured 8d ago against content hash b1bd7e23af9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yaps-transcription 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 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.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/yaps-transcription/skills/yaps-transcription/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Yaps Transcription

Create a plain-text transcript from one existing media file 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 input-file 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 · 167 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 · 167 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A b1bd7e23af9e

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yaps-transcription is a skill published in the GitHub repository richawo/yaps-codex-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,437 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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