Elevenlabs SDK Patterns

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Implementing ElevenLabs integrations
• Refactoring SDK usage
• Establishing team coding standards for audio AI applications
• With elevenlabs SDK patterns

Example prompts

• “elevenlabs SDK patterns”
• “elevenlabs best practices”
• “elevenlabs code patterns”
• “/elevenlabs-sdk-patterns”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Singleton client. Create one lazily-initialized ElevenLabsClient guarded by an
2. 2Type-safe TTS service. Wrap textToSpeech.convert behind a typed TTSOptions interface
3. 3Error classification. Map raw SDK errors to an ElevenLabsServiceError carrying a stable
4. 4Retry with a concurrency queue. Route calls through a p-queue sized to your plan's
5. 5Multi-tenant factory. For SaaS platforms, key one client per tenant in a Map so each
6. 6Python async. Mirror the singleton + streaming-to-file pattern with AsyncElevenLabsClient

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • github.com
  • pypi.org

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • ELEVENLABS_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Elevenlabs SDK Patterns loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 480 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~95

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 480 words, ~1,483 tokens.

name

elevenlabs-sdk-patterns

description

Apply production-ready ElevenLabs SDK patterns for TypeScript and Python. Use when implementing ElevenLabs integrations, refactoring SDK usage, or establishing team coding standards for audio AI applications. Trigger with "elevenlabs SDK patterns", "elevenlabs best practices", "elevenlabs code patterns", "idiomatic elevenlabs", "elevenlabs typescript".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.6.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, voice, ai, elevenlabs, sdk, patterns

import { generateToFile } from "./elevenlabs/tts-service";

await generateToFile(
  { voiceId: "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM", text: "Welcome aboard.", preset: "narration" },
  "welcome.mp3"
);

import { queuedRequest } from "./elevenlabs/queue";
import { generateSpeech } from "./elevenlabs/tts-service";

const audio = await queuedRequest(() =>
  generateSpeech({ voiceId: "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM", text: "High-throughput job." })
);

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/elevenlabs-sdk-patterns of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• references/implementation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287