parakeet SKILL.md skillA
parakeet from tdimino/claude-code-minoan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet@git:20260924.3bc5a79Pins git:20260924.3bc5a79 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tdimino/claude-code-minoan
- Path
skills/integration-automation/parakeet/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260924.3bc5a79, committed Sep 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 31, 2026
- Size
- 8,194 bytes
- Repository stars
- 41
- License
- MIT
Local speech-to-text on Apple Silicon with two cross-checking MLX engines: NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v2 (parakeet-mlx) and Qwen3-ASR 1.7B (mlx-audio, hotword biasing). Batch JSONL with word timestamps, confidence, provenance, and an agreement verdict. No NeMo or PyTorch. Use when transcribing audio files, identifying game or legacy voice clips by content, telling speech from SFX, serving an OpenAI-compatible STT endpoint, or dictating. For push-to-talk into any text field, use the Handy app.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Parakeet: Local Speech-to-Text (MLX) Two MLX engines run fully offline on the Metal GPU. Every script is a `uv run --script` file with inline dependencies, so there is no venv to maintain. | Engine | Model | Strength | Weakness | |--------|-------|----------|----------| | `parakeet` | `mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2` | Fast, per-word confidence, returns empty on non-speech | No vocabulary biasing | | `qwen3` | `mlx-community/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-8bit` | Best open-weight WER (4.95, Open ASR Leaderboard 2026-09-19), `hotwords` | Hallucinates interjections on SFX; can loop without a token cap | Run both on anything that becomes evidence. Their disagreement is the confidence signal. ## Commands ```bash S=~/.claude/skills/parakeet/scripts # One file -> text on stdout (parakeet engine; --engine both prints status<TAB>parakeet<TAB>qwen3) $S/transcribe.py clip.wav # Batch: files or directories -> JSONL manifest (both engines by default) $S/batch_transcribe.py clips/ --out manifest.jsonl $S/batch_transcribe.py clips/ --context-file vocab.txt # Qwen3 hotwords, one per line $S/batch_transcribe.py a.wav --engine qwen3 --language auto # or a name / ISO code (fr, French) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet@sha256:77856f670fca52f9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.3bc5a79, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jan 31, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 79 days.
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| git:20260924.3bc5a79 latest | 2026-09-24 | 3bc5a79 | 8,194 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.99cbc7d | 2026-04-15 | 99cbc7d | 6,057 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260211.1f3148e | 2026-02-11 | 1f3148e | 5,242 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260131.736d88f | 2026-01-31 | 736d88f | 3,593 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8194 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
tdimino/claude-code-minoan · 41 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7f2j3sgro55tcklq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tdimino/claude-code-minoan/parakeet GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77856f670fca52f9dd4f4fdd92a7e17b851792254143c46b9ba0e22c3a2c859e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.