Control your coding agent with a walkie-talkie
walkai-talkai lets you talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Antigravity hands-free through a walkie-talkie and hear the agent's answers back over the radio, with local Whisper speech-to-text so audio stays on your Mac.
Source
@harshitagu72595 on X · 2026-10-20
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-21.
What they did
walkai-talkai lets you talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Antigravity hands-free through a walkie-talkie and hear the agent's answers back over the radio, with local Whisper speech-to-text so audio stays on your Mac.
Result (as claimed)
Released for macOS; the maker warns radio is an open channel anyone on the frequency can hear.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; Cursor: free plan, paid from $8/mo.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Whisper, macOS. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Control your coding agent with a walkie-talkie What the original author did: walkai-talkai lets you talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Antigravity hands-free through a walkie-talkie and hear the agent's answers back over the radio, with local Whisper speech-to-text so audio stays on your Mac. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Released for macOS; the maker warns radio is an open channel anyone on the frequency can hear. Source: https://x.com/harshitagu72595/status/2112480459754291554 Tools they used: Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Whisper, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Control your coding agent with a walkie-talkie What the original author did: walkai-talkai lets you talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Antigravity hands-free through a walkie-talkie and hear the agent's answers back over the radio, with local Whisper speech-to-text so audio stays on your Mac. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Released for macOS; the maker warns radio is an open channel anyone on the frequency can hear. Source: https://x.com/harshitagu72595/status/2112480459754291554 Tools they used: Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Whisper, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Control your coding agent with a walkie-talkie What the original author did: walkai-talkai lets you talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Antigravity hands-free through a walkie-talkie and hear the agent's answers back over the radio, with local Whisper speech-to-text so audio stays on your Mac. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Released for macOS; the maker warns radio is an open channel anyone on the frequency can hear. Source: https://x.com/harshitagu72595/status/2112480459754291554 Tools they used: Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Whisper, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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