init

A guided setup tool for creating a Pipecat project. Pipecat is a framework for building voice and multimodal AI applications, such as web or phone bots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a new web or telephony Pipecat project, choosing its transport and speech, language-model, voice, realtime, or video components, and selecting an output directory.
Why use it?
It turns project setup choices into a guided configuration process instead of requiring a developer to assemble the starting files and options manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xx5921/pipecat-mcp-server/init
Any agent
npx skills add xx5921/pipecat-mcp-server --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xx5921/pipecat-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.01717
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00859
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00172

Measured yesterday against content hash eea9fe824ba2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 yesterday.

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/init/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold a new Pipecat project by collecting configuration from the user and running pc init in non-interactive mode.

Arguments

/init [--output <PATH>]
  • --output (optional): Directory where the project will be created. Defaults to the current directory.

Prerequisites

Check if pc is installed by running pc --version. If not installed, tell the user to install it with uv tool install pipecat-ai-cli and stop.

Discover Available Options

Before asking the user any questions, run pc init --list-options to get the current valid values for all fields. The output is JSON:

{
  "bot_type": ["web", "telephony"],
  "transports": {
    "web": ["daily", "smallwebrtc"],
    "telephony": ["twilio", "telnyx", ...]
  },
  "stt": ["deepgram_stt", "openai_stt", ...],
  "llm": ["openai_llm", "anthropic_llm", ...],
  "tts": ["cartesia_tts", "elevenlabs_tts", ...],
  "realtime": ["openai_realtime", "gemini_live_realtime", ...],
  "video": ["heygen_video", "tavus_video", "simli_video"]
}

Use this data to populate the choices in every question below. Do NOT hardcode service lists — always use the values from --list-options.

Configuration Flow

Walk through the following questions to build the project configuration. After collecting all answers, show a summary and run the command.

Choosing the right interaction method:

  • AskUserQuestion — Use for questions with a small, fixed set of options (bot type, pipeline mode, client framework, yes/no questions). This gives a clean clickable UI.
  • Show list as text — Use for questions with many options (STT, LLM, TTS, realtime, video, transports). Display the full list of available options from --list-options formatted as a readable list, then let the user reply with their choice in chat.

Step 1: Project Name

Ask the user for a project name. This will be used as the directory name and project identifier.

Step 2: Bot Type

Ask the user to choose a bot type:

  • Web/Mobile (web) - Browser or mobile app
  • Telephony (telephony) - Phone calls

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. yesterday First seen · 185 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A eea9fe824ba2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository xx5921/pipecat-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,717 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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