ac-tools-setup-voice-mode

ac-tools-setup-voice-mode is a skill for Claude Code from WaterplanAI/agentic-config. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for VoiceMode MCP, which lets a coding agent handle voice input and spoken responses. It configures local Kokoro text-to-speech and Whisper speech-to-text services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing voice interaction, configuring local speech services, checking the connection, and testing voice input and output.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of installing VoiceMode, connecting it to the client, and avoiding unintended fallback to a remote service.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./models/generate-coreml-model.sh medium.

Part of the agentic-config plugin — 49 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Installing voice interaction, configuring local speech services, checking the connection, and testing voice input and output.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WaterplanAI/agentic-config
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waterplanai/agentic-config/ac-tools-setup-voice-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-config, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 1 plugin.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,404 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 $0.00042 $0.01404
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00140

Measured 9d ago against content hash e7c880275147, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ac-tools-setup-voice-mode 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.

packages/pi-ac-tools/skills/ac-tools-setup-voice-mode/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup VoiceMode

Install and configure VoiceMode MCP for voice interactions in the target client.

Steps

  1. Install VoiceMode:
uvx voice-mode-install --yes
  1. Add the MCP server to the target client:
claude mcp add --scope user voicemode -- uvx --refresh voice-mode
  1. Configure local endpoints (Kokoro TTS + Whisper STT):
voicemode config set VOICEMODE_TTS_BASE_URLS http://127.0.0.1:8880/v1
voicemode config set VOICEMODE_STT_BASE_URLS http://127.0.0.1:2022/v1
voicemode config set VOICEMODE_PREFER_LOCAL true
voicemode config set VOICEMODE_ALWAYS_TRY_LOCAL true

This is critical. Without explicit _BASE_URLS, the default includes https://api.openai.com/v1 as fallback, which crashes with OPENAI_API_KEY errors even when local services are running.

  1. Verify installation:
claude mcp list
  1. Test voice mode:
  • Restart the target client
  • If the target runtime exposes a VoiceMode tool, use it to verify; otherwise restart the target client and confirm voice input/output there

First Run Note

Kokoro TTS may take 5+ minutes to load on first run while it downloads and initializes the model (~111MB). Check status with:

voicemode service kokoro status

Two MCP restarts required:

  1. After initial setup (step 5)
  2. After Kokoro model finishes downloading

Without the second restart, you may get "OpenAI API key" errors even with local config.

Configuration Options

Edit config with:

voicemode config edit

List all options:

voicemode config list

Key Settings

Setting Description
VOICEMODE_PREFER_LOCAL Prefer local providers over cloud (true/false)
VOICEMODE_ALWAYS_TRY_LOCAL Always attempt local providers first (true/false)
VOICEMODE_SAVE_AUDIO Save audio files (true/false, default: false)
VOICEMODE_WHISPER_MODEL Whisper model (tiny, base, small, medium, large-v2)
VOICEMODE_KOKORO_DEFAULT_VOICE Default voice (e.g., af_sky)
OPENAI_API_KEY Required only for cloud processing

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 9d ago First seen · 170 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A e7c880275147

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ac-tools-setup-voice-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository WaterplanAI/agentic-config (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,404 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.