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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 887eed226b the transcription goes beside the audio, and nothing else moves
it created a dated directory, moved the recording into it and wrote the
markdown alongside. nobody asked for an archive. the thing you want from a
transcription is the text next to the recording, which is exactly what the
file viewer's transcribe button did — POST with saveNextTo, sibling .md,
done.

overwrites a previous transcription of the same file on purpose: it is
derived, running it again means you wanted it again, and a -2 beside it is
only a second file to choose between.

inline: true, so the file browser runs it and waits rather than making a
background job out of a call that takes seconds.

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---
name: Transcribe Audio File
description: Transcribe an audio file to text over your own whisper.cpp server, no model turn per file.
category: Media
version: 1
mode: script
inline: true
language: typescript
tags:
- audio
- transcription
skills:
- transcribe
inputs:
- name: file_path
description: Path to the audio file to transcribe. Auto-filled from the file browser.
required: true
trigger:
- type: file
extensions:
- mp3
- wav
- m4a
---
# Transcribe Audio File
Sends the audio file to the `transcribe` plugin's own route — `POST /api/transcribe/transcribe` — and
files the result next to the original.
A **script** task, deliberately: the plugin already does its own language detection and transcription
server-side, so there is nothing here worth a model turn for. Running one per audio file would be a
model call spent re-deriving what the plugin already returns.
## What it does
1. Read the audio file at `file_path` and the caller's spoken-language preferences
(`GET /api/user/settings`).
2. `POST` the file to `/api/transcribe/transcribe`. The plugin detects the language and transcribes
faithfully in it — see `plugins/transcribe/skills/transcribe/SKILL.md` for the contract.
3. Write the transcription beside the audio file, same name, `.md`. Nothing is moved and nothing is
created around it.
It overwrites a previous transcription of the same file, deliberately: a transcription is derived, and
running it again means you wanted it again.
## Before it runs
The plugin has to be configured — `PUT /api/transcribe/config` with a reachable whisper.cpp URL. If it
is not, this fails with that told plainly rather than a generic error.
## What it deliberately does not do
The worked example this was adapted from (an agentic task) ran its own detect-language pass before
transcribing, and generated a title from the transcription's contents. Both are dropped here: the
detect-then-transcribe step is already what the plugin's route does internally, so repeating it would be
redundant work against the same server. And a generated title needs a model turn, which is exactly what
this task exists to avoid spending per file.