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Verbative makes the Claude Code CLItruly hands-free. It's a VS Code extension (macOS) that listens for a wake word, lets you dictate your prompt, submits it, and then speaks Claude's replies, permission requests, and summaries back to you — so you can run a full coding session by voice, keyboard optional. It works with your normal Claude subscription through the Claude Code CLI; there's no separate API key or SDK.
A live replica of the Verbative panel in VS Code — wake, dictate, and control Claude entirely by voice.
How the pieces fit together
- A bundled Python daemon uses whisper.cppto recognize your voice commands (“listen”, “stop listening”, “approve”, …) entirely on-device— those never leave your machine.
- The daemon captures audio via AVCaptureSession so Bluetooth headsets switch into HFP mode (otherwise the mic delivers silence on macOS).
- Spoken output — summaries, permission requests, advisor concerns — is synthesized locally with the Kokoroneural voice, running on your Mac's GPU, so cues never wait on a network round-trip (no cloud TTS).
- The Claude Code CLI runs in VS Code's integrated terminal; Verbative drives it the same way you would by hand — typing your prompt and pressing Enter, or answering a permission prompt.
- Below the voice layer, Verbative is a multi-channel Agentic Development Environment (ADE)— run and steer several Claude agents at once across Channels, weigh decisions with the Advisory Board, and track work through the Project Roadmap, all by voice or by hand.
Explore the features
Each feature group has its own page, with a live in-browser preview of the panel it appears in:
- Talk to your code — transcription modes, dictating in any language, and the full voice-command vocabulary.
- Command a team — parallel agents in Channels, the Advisory Board review panel, and the Project Roadmap board.
- Power tools — Verbative Shot screen capture and reusable one-click Mechanics.
Plans
Free includes, per day (resets 00:00 UTC), 10 hands-free loops, 10 Verbative Shots, 10 Advisory Board reviews, and 10 Project Roadmap updates — plus one channel with up to 2 parallel agents, up to 2 Mechanics, your choice of whisper model, and both cloud and local on-device transcription (the same daily limit applies either way). Advancedis unlimited — unlimited loops, Verbative Shots, Advisory Board, Project Roadmap, channels and parallel agents, and Mechanics — defaults to local on-device transcription, and adds editable voice commands.
Privacy at a glance
Voice commands and all spoken output are processed entirely on your machine. In Local transcription mode your dictated prompt never leaves your Mac either. In Cloudmode the prompt is transcribed by Claude Code on Anthropic's infrastructure (same as if you typed claudein your terminal). Our servers only ever see usage counts — never your audio or prompts. Verbative Shot captures go straight to your clipboard and stay entirely on your Mac — never uploaded.