openai-whisper

openai-whisper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from spinabot/brigade. It costs 18 tokens per session (232 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openai-whisper, MIT.

A local command-line tool that turns recorded speech into text, or translates it into another language, on your computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating text transcripts from MP3 or M4A files and producing translated subtitles in SRT format.
Why use it?
It lets you transcribe audio without sending it to an online service or needing an API key. You can choose smaller models for speed or larger ones for accuracy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Creating text transcripts from MP3 or M4A files and producing translated subtitles in SRT format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spinabot/brigade/openai-whisper
About the project

Brigade is an ecosystem for running crews of AI agents as a personal intelligence system, with local handling of credentials and support for exposing agent crews to the internet for testing. It is for people who want to organize and operate multiple AI agents using their own API keys or existing Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude Code, or Codex access. The catalogue skills provide workflows for using Brigade and its agent ecosystem.

spinabot/brigade · 3,498 stars · on GitHub · brigade.spinabot.com

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 spinabot/brigade --skill openai-whisper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spinabot/brigade

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 232 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00018 $0.00232
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 9d ago against content hash 846916be0a56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openai-whisper 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 9d 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

This is a copy

94% identical to openai-whisper — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/openai-whisper/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Whisper (CLI)

Use whisper to transcribe audio locally.

Quick start

  • whisper /path/audio.mp3 --model medium --output_format txt --output_dir .
  • whisper /path/audio.m4a --task translate --output_format srt

Notes

  • Models download to ~/.cache/whisper on first run.
  • --model defaults to turbo on this install.
  • Use smaller models for speed, larger for accuracy.
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. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 846916be0a56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openai-whisper is a skill published in the GitHub repository spinabot/brigade (3,498 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 232 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to openai-whisper, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.