How do I install the Narova Elevenlabs skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add ammar-hasan/narova-elevenlabs in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Narova Elevenlabs safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Narova Elevenlabs?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Narova Elevenlabs free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free. This skill is licensed under Apache-2.

Who published Narova Elevenlabs?

ammar-hasan (@ammar-hasan) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Narova Elevenlabs by ammar-hasan — Agent Skill

Name: Narova Elevenlabs
Author: ammar-hasan

Narova Elevenlabs

Use this optional Narova companion when the user explicitly requests ElevenLabs, an ElevenLabs voice or voice ID, or hosted/premium cloud TTS for a Narova project. It installs and registers a separate ElevenLabs provider worker without adding cloud dependencies or credentials to the main Narova skill. Do not use it for ordinary local narrated-video requests; Narova remains local-first.

ammar-hasan Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Narova + ElevenLabs

This skill is an optional external TTS provider for Narova. It owns all ElevenLabs API details and speaks the generic narova-tts-provider/v1 JSONL protocol over stdin/stdout. Narova owns sentence caching and every downstream audio/video stage.

Setup

Install the standalone Narova CLI as described by the narova skill, then install narova and narova-elevenlabs as independently selected skills from ammar-hasan/narova.
Locate this installed skill from the directory containing this SKILL.md; call that absolute directory <narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>.

Verify this worker:

bash <narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>/tool/setup.sh

Set the key in the environment used to run Narova. Never put it in reel.config.mjs:
```
export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY="..."
```

Explicitly register this installed worker:

narova providers add \
  <narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>/tool/provider.json

Verify registration and authentication:

narova providers doctor elevenlabs
narova voices list --backend elevenlabs

Read references/configuration.md before writing the voice block. It documents supported provider options, synthesis, errors, security, billing, and removal.

When a brief needs a voice that does not exist yet, use references/voice-design.md and tool/design.py to design previews from a description, audition them, and create the permanent voice — the resulting voice ID slots into the normal voice block.

Operating rules

Treat speaker as an ElevenLabs voice ID, not a display name.
Keep ELEVENLABS_API_KEY only in the process environment or a user-managed secret store.
Do not add ElevenLabs packages to Narova's venv or modify Narova's setup.
Do not copy this worker into the Narova skill. Registration composes the two independently installed skills.
Voice listing and synthesis are network operations and may be subject to account permissions, rate limits, and charges.
Do not automatically retry synthesis failures. A response may have been billed even when the connection failed before Narova received it.
Narova's sentence cache avoids billing again for unchanged sentences. A change to text, voice ID, language, tempo, gain, provider version, or providerOptions invalidates the relevant cache entry.

---name: narova-elevenlabsdescription: Use this optional Narova companion when the user explicitly requests ElevenLabs, an ElevenLabs voice or voice ID, or hosted/premium cloud TTS for a Narova project. It installs and registers a separate ElevenLabs provider worker without adding cloud dependencies or credentials to the main Narova skill. Do not use it for ordinary local narrated-video requests; Narova remains local-first.license: Apache-2.0---# Narova + ElevenLabsThis skill is an optional external TTS provider for Narova. It owns allElevenLabs API details and speaks the generic `narova-tts-provider/v1` JSONLprotocol over stdin/stdout. Narova owns sentence caching and every downstreamaudio/video stage.## Setup1. Install the standalone Narova CLI as described by the `narova` skill, then install `narova` and `narova-elevenlabs` as independently selected skills from `ammar-hasan/narova`.2. Locate this installed skill from the directory containing this `SKILL.md`; call that absolute directory `<narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>`.3. Verify this worker: ```bash bash <narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>/tool/setup.sh ```4. Set the key in the environment used to run Narova. Never put it in `reel.config.mjs`: ```bash export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY="..." ```5. Explicitly register this installed worker: ```bash narova providers add \ <narova-elevenlabs-skill-dir>/tool/provider.json ```6. Verify registration and authentication: ```bash narova providers doctor elevenlabs narova voices list --backend elevenlabs ```Read [references/configuration.md](references/configuration.md) before writingthe voice block. It documents supported provider options, synthesis, errors,security, billing, and removal.When a brief needs a voice that does not exist yet, use[references/voice-design.md](references/voice-design.md) and`tool/design.py` to design previews from a description, audition them,and create the permanent voice — the resulting voice ID slots into thenormal voice block.## Operating rules- Treat `speaker` as an ElevenLabs voice ID, not a display name.- Keep `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY` only in the process environment or a user-managed secret store.- Do not add ElevenLabs packages to Narova's venv or modify Narova's setup.- Do not copy this worker into the Narova skill. Registration composes the two independently installed skills.- Voice listing and synthesis are network operations and may be subject to account permissions, rate limits, and charges.- Do not automatically retry synthesis failures. A response may have been billed even when the connection failed before Narova received it.- Narova's sentence cache avoids billing again for unchanged sentences. A change to text, voice ID, language, tempo, gain, provider version, or `providerOptions` invalidates the relevant cache entry.

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