Voice Mode

.gitignore

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 .DS_Store
 *.log
-node_modules/
+.env
+vui/target

README.md

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-# Root Ventures Application Skill
+# Root Ventures Application
 
-Apply to Root Ventures positions directly through Claude CLI.
+Apply to Root Ventures directly through voice or text conversation with Claude.
 
-## Installation & Usage
-
-Just run this one command:
+## Quick Start
 
 ```bash
 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rootvc/claude-apply-skill/main/install.sh | bash
 ```
 
-The installer will:
-- Download the skill files
-- Automatically launch Claude CLI
-- Pre-load the application skill
-
-Then simply say to Claude:
-```
-I want to apply to Root Ventures
-```
-
-Claude will then:
-- Guide you through the application
-- Collect your information conversationally
-- Submit directly to Root Ventures
-
-## What You'll Provide
-
-- Your name (required)
-- Your email (required)
-- LinkedIn profile (optional)
-- GitHub username (optional)
-- Why you're interested in Root (optional)
-
-## How It Works
+You'll be prompted to choose:
 
-1. You run the one-line install command
-2. The installer downloads skill files and launches Claude
-3. Claude loads the skill instructions and waits for you
-4. You say "I want to apply to Root Ventures"
-5. Claude starts the conversational application process
-6. You provide your information naturally
-7. Claude submits your application to Attio
-8. You receive immediate confirmation
+1. **Voice mode** (recommended) — Native app with speech recognition and text-to-speech
+2. **Text mode** — Claude CLI chat interface
 
-## Example
+## Voice Mode
 
-```bash
-$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rootvc/claude-apply-skill/main/install.sh | bash
-
-🚀 Installing Root Ventures Apply Skill...
-📥 Downloading skill files...
-✅ Root Ventures Apply Skill installed successfully!
-
-Launching Claude...
-
-Once Claude opens, just say: 'I want to apply to Root Ventures'
-
-━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+A native macOS app that lets you have a spoken conversation with Claude. Just talk naturally — Claude will interview you, fill out the application form in real-time, and submit when you're ready.
 
-[Claude launches]
+**Requirements:**
+- macOS
+- `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY` in environment or `.env`
 
-Claude: Root Ventures application skill installed. Claude can now help you apply for a job at Root Ventures
+The installer will install Rust if needed and build the app (~1 min first time).
 
-You: I want to apply to Root Ventures
+**Features:**
+- Natural voice conversation
+- Barge-in support — interrupt Claude mid-sentence
+- Live form updates as you speak
+- Automatic submission to Attio CRM
 
-Claude: Great! Root Ventures is looking for a technical associate in SF.
-        Let me collect some information. What's your name?
+## Text Mode
 
-You: Jane Doe
+Uses Claude CLI for a text-based chat. The installer downloads the skill files and launches Claude automatically.
 
-Claude: Thanks Jane! What's your email address?
-
-        [... continues conversationally ...]
-
-Claude: ✅ Application submitted successfully!
+Then just say:
+```
+I want to apply to Root Ventures
 ```
 
-## Source Tracking
+## What You'll Provide
 
-Applications submitted through this skill are tagged with `source: "Claude Skill"` in Attio, and "Applied using claude skill" is added to your notes.
+- Name (required)
+- Email (required)
+- LinkedIn profile
+- GitHub username
+- Why you're interested (collected through interview questions)
 
 ## Other Ways to Apply
 

install.sh

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 #!/bin/bash
-# Root Ventures Apply Skill - One-line installer for Claude CLI
+# Root Ventures Apply Skill - One-line installer
+# Supports both text mode (Claude CLI) and voice mode (native app)
 
 set -e
 
 SKILL_DIR="$HOME/.claude/skills/root-ventures-apply"
 REPO_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rootvc/claude-apply-skill/main"
 
 echo ""
-echo "🚀 Installing Root Ventures Apply Skill..."
-echo ""
-
-# Create skills directory if it doesn't exist
-mkdir -p "$SKILL_DIR"
-
-# Download files
-echo "📥 Downloading skill files..."
-curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/skill.json" -o "$SKILL_DIR/skill.json"
-curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/prompt.txt" -o "$SKILL_DIR/prompt.txt"
-curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/apply.sh" -o "$SKILL_DIR/apply.sh"
-curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/README.md" -o "$SKILL_DIR/README.md"
-
-# Make apply.sh executable
-chmod +x "$SKILL_DIR/apply.sh"
-
-echo ""
-echo "✅ Root Ventures Apply Skill installed successfully!"
+echo "🚀 Root Ventures Apply"
 echo ""
 echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
 echo ""
-echo "  Launching Claude..."
+echo "  Choose your mode:"
+echo ""
+echo "  [1] 🎙️  Voice mode (recommended)"
+echo "      Native app with speech recognition and text-to-speech"
 echo ""
-echo "  Claude will confirm it's ready, then just say:"
-echo "  'I want to apply to Root Ventures'"
+echo "  [2] 💬 Text mode"
+echo "      Claude CLI chat interface"
 echo ""
 echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
 echo ""
 
-# Check if Claude CLI is installed
-# Try multiple ways to find claude (handles aliases, PATH, and direct installation)
-CLAUDE_CMD=""
-
-if command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
-  CLAUDE_CMD="claude"
-elif [ -f "$HOME/.claude/local/claude" ]; then
-  CLAUDE_CMD="$HOME/.claude/local/claude"
-elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/claude" ]; then
-  CLAUDE_CMD="/usr/local/bin/claude"
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$CLAUDE_CMD" ]; then
-  echo "⚠️  Claude CLI not found."
-  echo ""
-  echo "📦 Installing Claude CLI..."
-  echo ""
-
-  # Install Claude CLI using official installer
-  echo "Installing Claude CLI..."
-  curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
-
-  # Add to PATH if not already there
-  if ! command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
-    export PATH="$HOME/.claude/local:$PATH"
-
-    # Add to shell profile
-    SHELL_PROFILE=""
-    if [ -f "$HOME/.zshrc" ]; then
-      SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.zshrc"
-    elif [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
-      SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.bashrc"
-    elif [ -f "$HOME/.bash_profile" ]; then
-      SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.bash_profile"
+read -p "Enter choice (1 or 2): " choice </dev/tty
+
+case $choice in
+  1)
+    # Voice mode - build and run VUI
+    echo ""
+    echo "🎙️  Starting voice mode..."
+    echo ""
+
+    # Check for Rust
+    if ! command -v cargo &> /dev/null; then
+      echo "📦 Rust not found. Installing via rustup..."
+      echo ""
+      curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+      source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
+      echo ""
+      echo "✅ Rust installed successfully!"
+      echo ""
     fi
 
-    if [ -n "$SHELL_PROFILE" ]; then
-      if ! grep -q "/.claude/local" "$SHELL_PROFILE"; then
-        echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.claude/local:$PATH"' >> "$SHELL_PROFILE"
-        echo "✅ Added Claude CLI to PATH in $SHELL_PROFILE"
-      fi
+    # Clone repo if needed, or use current dir if already in it
+    if [ -f "vui/Cargo.toml" ]; then
+      cd vui
+    elif [ -f "Cargo.toml" ] && grep -q 'name = "vui"' Cargo.toml; then
+      : # already in vui directory
+    else
+      TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+      echo "📥 Downloading voice app..."
+      git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rootvc/claude-apply-skill.git "$TEMP_DIR"
+      cd "$TEMP_DIR/vui"
+      echo ""
     fi
-  fi
 
-  # Verify installation
-  if command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
-    CLAUDE_CMD="claude"
+    echo "🔨 Building voice app (this may take a minute)..."
     echo ""
-    echo "✅ Claude CLI installed successfully!"
+    cargo build --release
+
     echo ""
-  elif [ -f "$HOME/.claude/local/claude" ]; then
-    CLAUDE_CMD="$HOME/.claude/local/claude"
+    echo "✅ Build complete!"
     echo ""
-    echo "✅ Claude CLI installed successfully!"
+    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
     echo ""
-  else
+    echo "  Launching voice app..."
     echo ""
-    echo "❌ Claude CLI installation failed."
-    echo "Please install manually from: https://claude.ai/download"
+    echo "  Just start talking when you see the circle!"
     echo ""
-    echo "After installing, run this to apply:"
-    echo "  claude 'Read ~/.claude/skills/root-ventures-apply/prompt.txt then I want to apply'"
+    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
     echo ""
-    exit 1
-  fi
-fi
+    sleep 1
+    ./target/release/vui
+    ;;
+
+  2)
+    # Text mode - install Claude CLI skill
+    echo ""
+    echo "💬 Installing text mode skill..."
+    echo ""
+
+    # Create skills directory if it doesn't exist
+    mkdir -p "$SKILL_DIR"
+
+    # Download files
+    echo "📥 Downloading skill files..."
+    curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/skill.json" -o "$SKILL_DIR/skill.json"
+    curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/prompt.txt" -o "$SKILL_DIR/prompt.txt"
+    curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/apply.sh" -o "$SKILL_DIR/apply.sh"
+    curl -fsSL "$REPO_URL/README.md" -o "$SKILL_DIR/README.md"
 
-# Launch Claude with the skill pre-loaded
-sleep 1
-exec "$CLAUDE_CMD" "Read ~/.claude/skills/root-ventures-apply/prompt.txt"
+    # Make apply.sh executable
+    chmod +x "$SKILL_DIR/apply.sh"
 
+    echo ""
+    echo "✅ Root Ventures Apply Skill installed successfully!"
+    echo ""
+    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    echo ""
+    echo "  Launching Claude..."
+    echo ""
+    echo "  Claude will confirm it's ready, then just say:"
+    echo "  'I want to apply to Root Ventures'"
+    echo ""
+    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    echo ""
+
+    # Check if Claude CLI is installed
+    # Try multiple ways to find claude (handles aliases, PATH, and direct installation)
+    CLAUDE_CMD=""
+
+    if command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
+      CLAUDE_CMD="claude"
+    elif [ -f "$HOME/.claude/local/claude" ]; then
+      CLAUDE_CMD="$HOME/.claude/local/claude"
+    elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/claude" ]; then
+      CLAUDE_CMD="/usr/local/bin/claude"
+    fi
+
+    if [ -z "$CLAUDE_CMD" ]; then
+      echo "⚠️  Claude CLI not found."
+      echo ""
+      echo "📦 Installing Claude CLI..."
+      echo ""
+
+      # Install Claude CLI using official installer
+      echo "Installing Claude CLI..."
+      curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
+
+      # Add to PATH if not already there
+      if ! command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
+        export PATH="$HOME/.claude/local:$PATH"
+
+        # Add to shell profile
+        SHELL_PROFILE=""
+        if [ -f "$HOME/.zshrc" ]; then
+          SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.zshrc"
+        elif [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
+          SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.bashrc"
+        elif [ -f "$HOME/.bash_profile" ]; then
+          SHELL_PROFILE="$HOME/.bash_profile"
+        fi
+
+        if [ -n "$SHELL_PROFILE" ]; then
+          if ! grep -q "/.claude/local" "$SHELL_PROFILE"; then
+            echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.claude/local:$PATH"' >> "$SHELL_PROFILE"
+            echo "✅ Added Claude CLI to PATH in $SHELL_PROFILE"
+          fi
+        fi
+      fi
+
+      # Verify installation
+      if command -v claude &> /dev/null; then
+        CLAUDE_CMD="claude"
+        echo ""
+        echo "✅ Claude CLI installed successfully!"
+        echo ""
+      elif [ -f "$HOME/.claude/local/claude" ]; then
+        CLAUDE_CMD="$HOME/.claude/local/claude"
+        echo ""
+        echo "✅ Claude CLI installed successfully!"
+        echo ""
+      else
+        echo ""
+        echo "❌ Claude CLI installation failed."
+        echo "Please install manually from: https://claude.ai/download"
+        echo ""
+        echo "After installing, run this to apply:"
+        echo "  claude 'Read ~/.claude/skills/root-ventures-apply/prompt.txt then I want to apply'"
+        echo ""
+        exit 1
+      fi
+    fi
+
+    # Launch Claude with the skill pre-loaded
+    sleep 1
+    exec "$CLAUDE_CMD" "Read ~/.claude/skills/root-ventures-apply/prompt.txt"
+    ;;
+
+  *)
+    echo ""
+    echo "❌ Invalid choice. Please run again and enter 1 or 2."
+    echo ""
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+esac

vui/.env.example

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+ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=your_elevenlabs_api_key_here
+ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here