mksadoughi

Standby — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code plugin for Mac: talk to your session, transcribe meetings, and dictate in any app.

How to install Standby

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open mksadoughi/standby and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Standby does

Claude Code plugin for Mac: talk to your session, transcribe meetings, and dictate in any app. Speech processing runs locally on Apple Silicon.

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README

Standby

**Your Claude Code, right beside you.**

Standby is a Claude Code plugin that gives your session ears and a voice, on your Mac.

Website and demo film: [mksadoughi.github.io/standby](https://mksadoughi.github.io/standby/)

A terminal running Claude Code, wearing headphones

Call it and talk things through. It does the real work in your session while you keep talking.
Bring it to meetings, on a call or in the room, with no bot in the call. Ask it anything as it goes.
Dictate anywhere. Press F5, speak, and the text lands where your cursor is.

Speech-to-text, speaker labels and the voice run on your Mac. Your Claude Code gets your words as text.

Install

The easy way: give your Claude Code the link to [AGENT-GUIDE.md](AGENT-GUIDE.md) and ask it to install Standby. The guide tells an agent how to set it up, use every part of it, fix problems and remove it.

Or by hand:

git clone https://github.com/mksadoughi/standby.git
cd standby && ./install.sh

The installer sets everything up and downloads the models once. After that, its speech models run offline; only your Claude Code talks to its model provider, as always.

What it needs

**A Mac**: Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later, and [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) 2.1.299 or later, signed in (`claude update` gets the latest). 16 GB of memory is best for calls.
**A one-time download** of about 4.5 GB (2.5 GB on an 8 GB Mac), so leave 5 GB free. Standby's voice, 240 MB of it, comes with your first call.

**Three permissions**, each asked the first time it's needed:

macOS asks for	When	Why
Microphone	Your first call or meeting	To hear you
Screen & System Audio Recording	The first meeting that records your Mac's sound	To hear the other side of a video call. Standby takes the sound only, never the screen
Input Monitoring and