speed

speed is a skill for Claude Code from shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator. It costs 57 tokens per session (608 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setting for changing how quickly a narrator reads text aloud. It supports project-specific or global speech-speed settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting or adjusting speech speed between 0.5 and 2.0, including commands such as faster, slower, or a specific value.
Why use it?
It removes the need to edit narrator configuration by hand when the spoken responses are too fast or too slow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 narrator plugin — 6 skills, 6 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for setting or adjusting speech speed between 0.5 and 2.0, including commands such as faster, slower, or a specific value.

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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 shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator
Claude Code
/plugin install narrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install narrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 608 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 $0.00057 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 10d ago against content hash ac05d3923bde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speed 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 10d 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.

skills/speed/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Change Narrator Speech Speed

Step 1: Determine Scope

Check if the user said "locally", "for this directory", "for this project", or similar. If so, changes apply to the local config file in the current working directory.

  • Global (default): ~/.claude-code-narrator/config
  • Local: <cwd>/.claude-code-narrator/config

Step 2: Get the Speed Value

If the user specifies a speed value (e.g., "set speed to 1.5"), use that value. Valid range is 0.5 to 2.0. Default is 1.1.

If the user says "faster" or "speed up", read the current speed and increase it by 0.2 (capped at 2.0). If the user says "slower" or "slow down", read the current speed and decrease it by 0.2 (minimum 0.5).

If the value is outside the valid range, tell the user the valid range and ask them to pick a value.

If no specific value or direction is given, read the current speed from the appropriate config file (local if it exists and has a speed key, otherwise global) and show it to the user. Then ask what speed they would like using AskUserQuestion with these options:

  • 0.7 — Slow, deliberate
  • 1.0 — Natural pace
  • 1.1 — Default
  • 1.5 — Brisk

The user can also type a custom value.

Step 3: Set the Speed

Global mode (default):

Read ~/.claude-code-narrator/config and use the Edit tool to change the speed= line to the new value.

Local mode:

Read <cwd>/.claude-code-narrator/config. If the file exists, use the Edit tool to change or add the speed= line. If the file does not exist, create the <cwd>/.claude-code-narrator/ directory if needed, then create the config file with the Write tool containing just speed=<value>.

IMPORTANT: Do NOT use sed to edit state files — use the Read and Edit tools instead.

Step 4: Confirm

Tell the user the new speed value, then speak a test sentence so they can hear the difference:

echo "This is how I sound at the new speed." | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/speak.sh" --force

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A ac05d3923bde

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speed is a skill published in the GitHub repository shreyas-s-rao/claude-code-narrator (26 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 608 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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