Pipa Huddle Beta

Pipa Huddle Beta

Start a voice huddle with the user's current agent so they can talk through work out loud.

Output goal: start the hosted voice bridge, state context and retention clearly, and optionally produce a concise continuation handoff.

Communication style contract: when returning user-facing status, blockers, or final handoffs, apply skills/pipa/references/communication-style.md when available.

Workflow

Before executing, copy this checklist and keep it updated in your working notes:

Voice Session Progress
- [ ] Step 1 complete: intent and voice-session scope confirmed
- [ ] Step 2 complete: available agent context and session limits stated
- [ ] Step 3 complete: local OpenCode voice bridge availability checked
- [ ] Step 4 complete: browser voice session started or blocker returned
- [ ] Step 5 complete: session notes synthesized without treating raw transcript as durable state
- [ ] Step 6 complete: optional handoff produced when the user wants to continue execution

Step 1: Confirm Intent

Use this skill when the user asks to talk with Pipa or the active agent by voice, including hosted or relay-backed sessions from another browser. Route audio artifacts to pipa-audio-brief, human video meetings elsewhere, and realtime voice coding or spoken approvals to a clear scope blocker.

Step 2: Frame The Session Contract

Follow references/session-contract.md.

At session start, state:

• which agent/context is available
• what the voice session can do now
• what it cannot do in V1
• whether raw audio/transcript is transient or saved

Do not imply that voice mode is a separate agent brain. The voice session is an interaction layer over the current agent context.

Step 3: Start The Local OpenCode Voice Bridge

Follow references/transport-prototype.md, references/hosted-relay.md, references/template-contract.md, and references/privacy-and-retention.md.

The bridge creates a dedicated OpenCode session for the huddle on the first spoken/text turn, captures that new session id from opencode run --format json, and reuses it for the rest of the huddle with --session . This avoids guessing from opencode session list and avoids attaching voice turns to an unrelated existing thread.

Before launch, synthesize compact inline context only when the launching thread has substantive conversation context for the huddle to continue. The context should read like: "You are currently in a huddle continuing a conversation with the user. Here is the prior conversation context." Then include only the useful conversation context: what the user was discussing, relevant decisions/preferences, open questions, and any files or repo details needed to understand that discussion.

Do not include a "Current Goal" that says to start a huddle. Do not include generic repository context, session scope, or "do not assume" boilerplate unless it is specific to the user's prior conversation. Do not include the user's request to start the huddle, this skill's execution steps, daemon/bridge details, URLs, model/runtime details, or session-creation mechanics. If there is no substantive prior conversation beyond "start a huddle," do not pass context.

When context is useful, pass it inline with PIPA_VOICE_SESSION_CONTEXT. The bridge injects this context into the first huddle turn only, so the dedicated huddle session starts informed without continuing the caller's thread. Do not create or update launch context files as part of the normal workflow.

Pass the current OpenCode model into the bridge with --model so the huddle uses the same model as the launching session. Do not rely on OpenCode defaults and do not hardcode a provider-specific model in the skill; use the model id from the active agent session. If the current runtime exposes OPENCODE_MODEL, the bridge also honors it, but explicit --model is preferred because daemon and hosted launches are easier to inspect.

Use the managed hosted relay path for sandboxed or remote-browser use. The production relay is https://voice.usepipa.com; each launch creates a separate session URL under /s/ and pairs it with a local bridge daemon that connects outbound to /ws/.

Use the bundled same-computer bridge at skills/pipa-huddle-beta/scripts/start-voice-session.mjs as the local fallback and development path. It serves a localhost browser UI, captures speech with browser APIs, sends each turn to opencode run, and speaks the OpenCode response with browser speech synthesis.

Always launch through the managed daemon JSON path. The bridge is a long-running HTTP/WebSocket process, so it must not be coupled to the shell or tool-call lifetime. A new managed launch stops only the previously recorded project-local Pipa Huddle bridge from .pipa/voice-session/bridge.pid, writes fresh metadata to .pipa/voice-session/session.json, and exits when the huddle session ends.

The local bridge serves the deterministic huddle template defined in references/template-contract.md. By default it renders the skill-local file templates/huddle.html; set PIPA_VOICE_SESSION_TEMPLATE=/absolute/path/to/index.html only for explicit template experiments.

Default hosted launch command from the repository root:

node skills/pipa-huddle-beta/scripts/start-voice-session.mjs --daemon --print-url-json --model 

If there is substantive prior conversation to hand off, pass it inline for that launch only:

PIPA_VOICE_SESSION_CONTEXT='' node skills/pipa-huddle-beta/scripts/start-voice-session.mjs --daemon --print-url-json --model 

Local fallback:

node skills/pipa-huddle-beta/scripts/start-voice-session.mjs --daemon --print-url-json --local --model 

Hosted mode should create the relay session, connect the local bridge daemon, and print JSON events that include the browser URL, daemon pid, log path, and stop command. Hosted mode does not add OpenCode flags by default. It forwards the user's spoken/text turn to the local OpenCode bridge; OpenCode's normal session and permission behavior still applies.

Do not continue the caller's thread by default. The huddle is a side-room: it creates a new OpenCode session on the first turn, then keeps all huddle turns in that session with --session . Use --huddle-session only to resume an existing huddle session, and use --allow-latest-session only for manual debugging.

If the bridge cannot start, block clearly. Do not pretend that browser STT, Daily/WebRTC, or another provider is available without checking.

Step 4: Run The Voice Session

During the session:

• keep turns extremely short and conversational because browser speech is the output
• default to 1-2 short sentences for spoken replies
• avoid bullets, numbered lists, headings, markdown formatting, and long explanations unless the user explicitly asks for detail
• ask clarifying questions when the user's direction is fuzzy or contradictory
• track useful context, decisions, preferences, blockers, and open questions
• treat rambly speech as discovery input, not as final instructions unless the user confirms
• avoid storing raw transcript/audio by default

Text entry is allowed as a debug/accessibility input path, but agent replies must come from OpenCode or return a blocker.

Step 5: Optional Context Handoff

Follow references/context-handoff.md only when the session ends with execution intent or the user asks to continue in the agent.

Step 6: Return Status Or Blocker

Happy-path final response:

Ready to join the huddle: ``

Blocked final response:

Voice session blocked.

- **Blocked at:** 
- **Why:** 
- **Next:** 

References

• references/session-contract.md
• references/context-handoff.md
• references/transport-prototype.md
• references/hosted-relay.md
• references/template-contract.md
• references/privacy-and-retention.md

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: lunchpaillola
• Source: lunchpaillola/pipa-skills
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://usepipa.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.