setup-transcribe

setup-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An installer and setup guide for a local service that turns recorded interview audio into written transcripts. It connects that service to Claude Desktop for use by the career-navigator interview tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare recorded interview transcription before using the interview-capture workflow.
Why use it?
It removes the need for a non-technical user to find the service, check prerequisites, and run terminal installation commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the career-navigator plugin — 46 skills, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare recorded interview transcription before using the interview-capture workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/setup-transcribe
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 tmargolis/career-navigator --skill setup-transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmargolis/career-navigator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-navigator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,108 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 $0.00071 $0.01108
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00443
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00111

Measured 27d ago against content hash f4a001936621, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-transcribe 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 27d 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/setup-transcribe/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install the local mcp-transcribe MCP server so /career-navigator:interview-capture can transcribe recorded interview audio files. This walks a non-technical user through the same steps mcp-transcribe/README.md documents for the command line — but Claude runs them, with confirmation before anything is installed or changed.

This is optional. Skip it entirely if the user doesn't plan to use interview-capture.


1. Check whether it's already installed

Check whether a tool named backend_info (from mcp-transcribe) is already available in this session. If it is, call it, report the active backend, and stop — nothing to install.

If not, continue.


2. Locate the plugin directory

Resolve the absolute path to this plugin's mcp-transcribe/ directory (the same repo skills/setup-transcribe/SKILL.md lives in). If it can't be found (e.g. the plugin was installed as a zip without this optional directory), tell the user:

Interview transcription setup isn't available from this install — it needs the mcp-transcribe/ folder from the Career Navigator GitHub repo. Clone or download the repo from https://github.com/tmargolis/career-navigator and re-run this from inside it.

Then stop.


3. Check prerequisites

Run via Bash (read-only checks, no confirmation needed):

command -v uv; command -v ffmpeg; command -v brew

Report which are present. Two cases:

Homebrew missing (uv and/or ffmpeg also missing): This flow only automates the Homebrew path (macOS/Linuxbrew). Tell the user to install uv and ffmpeg themselves (point to https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/ and https://ffmpeg.org/download.html), then re-run this skill. Stop.

Homebrew present, uv and/or ffmpeg missing: Tell the user exactly what will run and why, then ask for explicit confirmation before running it:

This needs uv and ffmpeg installed via Homebrew. I'll run: brew install uv ffmpeg. OK to proceed?

Only after a clear yes, run it via Bash. If it fails, show the error and stop — do not retry silently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 27d ago First seen · 101 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A f4a001936621

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setup-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (16 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,108 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-27.

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