Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to tamirdresher/squad-for-kids. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/main/.squad/skills/read-aloud/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tamirdresher/squad-for-kidsWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/read-aloud)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/read-aloud"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/read-aloud/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/read-aloud"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/read-aloud.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00848 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00424 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00170 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00085 |
Grade A, and why
read-aloud 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
🔊 Read Aloud Skill
Adapted from the production squad's TTS conversion skill and podcaster system.
Purpose
Convert lesson content, stories, and instructions into spoken audio for younger children who can't read well yet, or for auditory learners who absorb information better by listening. Makes the squad accessible to pre-readers (ages 4-6) and supports multisensory learning.
Capabilities
- Lesson narration — convert any lesson to spoken audio
- Story time — read stories and adventures aloud with expression
- Instructions — speak task instructions for kids who can't read them
- Multilingual voices — natural-sounding voices in multiple languages
- Adjustable speed — slower for young kids, normal for older ones
- Two-voice mode — conversational format for engaging explanations (teacher + student dialogue)
Technology Stack
MVP (No API Keys Required)
- Engine: Microsoft Edge TTS (
edge-ttsPython library) - Quality: Neural-quality voices, free, no signup
- Voices by language:
Language Voice Style English en-US-JennyNeuralWarm, clear, child-friendly Hebrew he-IL-HilaNeuralNatural Hebrew pronunciation Arabic ar-SA-ZariyahNeuralClear Modern Standard Arabic Spanish es-MX-DaliaNeuralFriendly Latin American Spanish French fr-FR-DeniseNeuralNatural French Chinese zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeuralClear Mandarin Japanese ja-JP-NanamiNeuralNatural Japanese
Production (When Scaling)
- Azure AI Speech Service — higher quality, more voices, SSML support
- Custom voice profiles — each squad agent gets their own voice personality
Usage Modes
Single Voice (Default)
Direct narration — the agent reads content aloud as themselves.
Input: "Today we're going to learn about fractions! A fraction is..."
Output: lesson-fractions.mp3
Conversational (Two Voices)
Teacher-student dialogue — more engaging for complex topics.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9de06754c251
read-aloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository tamirdresher/squad-for-kids (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 848 tokens. 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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