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Install with an AI Agent ​

OSTT ships an official agent skill — a single instruction file that teaches AI coding agents how to install, configure, and troubleshoot OSTT. Instead of following these docs by hand, you can let your agent do the work.

What is an agent skill? ​

A skill is a portable instruction file (SKILL.md) in the open skills ecosystem. When you add it to a skill-aware agent (such as Claude Code), the agent gains OSTT-specific knowledge: installation steps, provider and model setup, hotkey configuration, processing actions, local models, and troubleshooting. The agent can then give you accurate commands and run them for you.

You do not need to know anything about the skills system to use it — the one command below is all it takes.

Add the skill ​

The skill is distributed with the skills CLI from Vercel Labs. There is nothing to install first: npx downloads and runs the CLI on demand.

bash
npx skills add https://github.com/kristoferlund/ostt-skill

This installs the OSTT skill into the skills directory of every skill-aware agent npx skills detects on your machine. The first time you run it, npx will ask to download the skills package — accept, and it handles the rest.

Use it ​

Once the skill is added, talk to your agent in plain language. For example:

  • "Install OSTT and set up Deepgram as the provider."
  • "Bind OSTT to Alt+Space on Hyprland with paste output."
  • "OSTT says command not found after install — fix my PATH."
  • "Download a local Whisper model and run it with GPU acceleration."
  • "Add a processing action that cleans up filler words."

The agent uses the skill to respond with correct OSTT commands and configuration, and can apply them for you.

Keeping it up to date ​

Re-run the same command to pull the latest version of the skill:

bash
npx skills add https://github.com/kristoferlund/ostt-skill

Source ​

The skill is open source. Browse or contribute at github.com/kristoferlund/ostt-skill. For the skills CLI itself — supported agents, options, and how the ecosystem works — see skills.sh.