Who it is forA developer who wants to keep an eye on long Claude Code runs without staring at the screen, for example while doing something else in the room.
The problemLong agent turns are hard to follow when you are away from the terminal, and you may miss what changed.
The outcomeAfter each turn Claude speaks a summary of what it did, using the best free voice your system has.
What you need first
- Claude Code installed and running
- Access to the /plugin command inside Claude Code
- A git repository with changes to commit, for the Commit plugin
- A system voice available on your computer, for the Narrator plugin
Steps
- Run
/plugin marketplace add midudev/better-claudein Claude Code. - Run
/plugin install narrator@better-claude. - Run
/narratoror click⏸︎ narrator offin the footer to turn narration on. - Send a prompt and let Claude finish a turn.
- Listen for the spoken summary, and use the same control to pause it.
Prompt for your agent
In a Claude Code session with the better-claude narrator plugin installed, run /narrator to turn it on, then send the prompt 'list the files in <target-folder>'. Expected output: a spoken summary after the turn in the language used in the session. Verify that the summary matches what Claude actually did in that turn.
Caveat. The voice depends on what your system provides, so the quality and language of the spoken output may vary by machine.
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