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.
npx skills add tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill parakeetgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoanWrote 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/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet/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/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00067 | $0.01724 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00862 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00345 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00172 |
Grade A, and why
parakeet 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 6d 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 — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Parakeet Dictation Skill
Local speech-to-text powered by NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3 (~600MB model, 100% offline).
Two Modes
1. Handy App (Primary — Push-to-Talk into Any Text Field)
Handy is a free, open-source Tauri app (Rust + React) providing push-to-talk dictation with Parakeet V3 built in. Inference via transcribe-rs (ONNX Runtime, int8 quantized).
brew install --cask handy
- Default hotkey: ⌥Space (Option-Space) on macOS, Ctrl-Space on Windows/Linux
- Modes: Push-to-talk (hold) or toggle (press to start/stop)
- Select Parakeet V3 in Settings → Models (auto-downloads ~478MB)
- Grant microphone + accessibility permissions
- Includes VAD (Silero), model management UI
- Additional models: Whisper (Small/Medium/Turbo/Large), Moonshine, SenseVoice
- Models stored at
~/Library/Application Support/com.pais.handy/models/
2. CLI Scripts (Claude Code File Transcription & Terminal Dictation)
CLI scripts remain for headless/terminal use within Claude Code. These use NeMo/PyTorch.
Performance
| System | Speed | Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Handy (M4 Max) | ~30x realtime | transcribe-rs / ONNX int8 |
| Handy (Zen 3) | ~20x realtime | transcribe-rs / ONNX int8 |
| Handy (Skylake i5) | ~5x realtime | transcribe-rs / ONNX int8 |
| NeMo CLI (MPS) | Varies | NeMo / PyTorch |
- Accuracy: 6.05% WER (Word Error Rate)
- Languages: 25 European languages with automatic detection (no prompting)
- Privacy: 100% local processing, no cloud API
- License: CC BY 4.0 (model), MIT (Handy app)
Commands
Transcribe Audio File
/parakeet path/to/audio.wav
/parakeet ~/recordings/interview.mp3
/parakeet meeting.m4a
Supported formats: .wav, .mp3, .m4a, .flac, .ogg, .aac
Live Dictation (Terminal)
/parakeet
/parakeet dictate
Record from microphone until Enter is pressed, then transcribe.
What ships with it
6 files 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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 192 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 66d02dc0c053
parakeet is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,724 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 2026-09-03.
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