Skills are folders of instructions and resources that AI coding tools load to help you build with Deepgram faster. Each skill teaches your tool how to use a specific part of the Deepgram platform — from API reference to finding the right starter app.

For more information, check out:

• Deepgram Documentation
• Deepgram API Reference
• Ask Deepgram AI

This repository contains skills for building with Deepgram's speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agent, and audio intelligence APIs. Skills are agent-agnostic — plain markdown that any AI coding tool can consume.

Deepgram ships two actively maintained, industry-leading speech-to-text model families:

• Nova (/v1/listen) — general-purpose transcription with a rich intelligence feature set (diarize, summarize, sentiment, topics, intents). Use for captions, subtitles, batch, and general live streaming.
• Flux (/v2/listen, model=flux-general-en) — conversational STT with built-in turn detection. Use for voice agents and interactive assistants. See the api skill for the full Nova vs Flux decision guide.

Some skills are hand-written, others are generated from Deepgram's OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.

• ./skills: All Deepgram skills
• ./template: Skill template for creating new skills
• ./scripts: Scripts for fetching specs and generating skills

Each Deepgram SDK repository publishes its own set of language-idiomatic skills under .agents/skills/:

npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-python-sdk     # Python
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-js-sdk         # JavaScript / TypeScript
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-java-sdk       # Java
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-go-sdk         # Go
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-rust-sdk       # Rust
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-swift-sdk      # Swift
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-kotlin-sdk     # Kotlin
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-dotnet-sdk     # C# / .NET
npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-browser-sdk    # Browser TypeScript

Each SDK ships 7 product skills named deepgram-{lang}-{product} plus a maintainer skill deepgram-{lang}-maintaining-sdk. Example names for the Python SDK:

• deepgram-python-speech-to-text
• deepgram-python-text-to-speech
• deepgram-python-text-intelligence
• deepgram-python-audio-intelligence
• deepgram-python-voice-agent
• deepgram-python-conversational-stt
• deepgram-python-management-api
• deepgram-python-maintaining-sdk

The deepgram-{lang}- prefix keeps names globally unique so installing skills from multiple SDKs never overwrites another SDK's skills.

This deepgram/skills repo covers product contracts (API reference, docs, starters, recipes, integrations, MCP). The SDK repos cover language-specific usage.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and 30+ others:

npx skills add deepgram/skills

Register this repository as a plugin marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add deepgram/skills

Then install the Deepgram plugin:

/plugin install deepgram@deepgram-agent-skills

This gives you the following slash commands:

• /deepgram:api — Deepgram API reference
• /deepgram:docs — Find the right documentation
• /deepgram:starters — Clone a starter app
• /deepgram:recipes — Focused runnable recipes for one feature × one language
• /deepgram:examples — Integration examples with third-party platforms
• /deepgram:setup-mcp — Set up the Deepgram MCP server

You can also install SDK-specific skill plugins from the same marketplace:

/plugin install deepgram-js-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills
/plugin install deepgram-python-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills
/plugin install deepgram-java-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills
/plugin install deepgram-go-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills
/plugin install deepgram-rust-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills
/plugin install deepgram-dotnet-sdk@deepgram-agent-skills

Each SDK plugin installs the 7 language-idiomatic skills from that SDK's repository.

Skills are a folder with a SKILL.md file containing YAML frontmatter and instructions. Use the template as a starting point:

---
name: my-skill-name
description: A clear description of what this skill does and when to use it.
---

# My Skill Name

[Instructions that your AI tool will follow when this skill is active]

The frontmatter requires two fields:

• name — A unique identifier for your skill (lowercase, hyphens for spaces)
• description — What the skill does and when to use it

The API reference skills are generated from Deepgram's specs. To regenerate:

# Fetch the latest specs
bun run scripts/fetch-specs.ts https://dpgr.am/openapi.yml https://dpgr.am/asyncapi.yml

# Generate reference markdown
bun install && bun run scripts/generate-skills.ts