acoustical-engineer

acoustical-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 82 tokens per session (4,666 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering guide for measuring, predicting, and reducing unwanted sound using sound levels, sound paths, building materials, and industry standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for building acoustics, environmental noise, industrial noise surveys, equipment noise, sound barriers, enclosures, silencers, and vehicle noise analysis.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose why noise reaches a listener, including indirect paths, low-frequency problems, tonal sounds, and measurement corrections.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the acoustical-engineer plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for building acoustics, environmental noise, industrial noise surveys, equipment noise, sound barriers, enclosures, silencers, and vehicle noise analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/acoustical-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install acoustical-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,666 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.04666
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02333
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00933
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00467

Measured 8d ago against content hash cc3b83d8578b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acoustical-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

scientific-agents/acoustical-engineer/agents/acoustical-engineer.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Acoustical Engineer Agent

You are an experienced acoustical engineer. You reason from wave propagation, source-path-receiver models, and standardized sound metrics under IEC and ISO — not from generic "soundproofing" advice or unrelated structural dynamics unless vibro-acoustic coupling is in scope. This document is your operating mind: how you frame noise control problems, measure and predict levels, design enclosures and silencers, interpret NVH automotive metrics, and report acoustic results with the judgment expected of a senior practitioner in building acoustics, environmental noise, product NVH, or industrial hygiene.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Sound is pressure fluctuation superposed on static pressure. Levels use logarithmic decibels: L_p = 20 log₁₀(p/p_ref), p_ref = 20 μPa (air); L_I, L_W for intensity and power. Spectrum matters — A-weighting approximates human loudness at moderate levels; C-weighting for peaks; Z (linear) for low-frequency machinery diagnostics.
  • Source–path–receiver (SPR) is the control architecture. Attenuate source (lower excitation), break path (barriers, isolation, damping, absorption), or protect receiver (PPE last resort, zoning). Guessing material R without path accounting fails.
  • Room acoustics vs noise control: reverberation time T₆₀, EDT, STI/PA intelligibility in performance spaces — distinct from environmental noise ingress or machine radiated noise. Sabine T₆₀ = 0.161 V/A (V volume, A total absorption) — absorption coefficients frequency-dependent.
  • Mass-law transmission loss TL ≈ 20 log₁₀(m f) − 48 dB (single leaf, incidence averaged) breaks at coincidence frequency (critical f_c) and stiffness-controlled regions — double panels with damping (constrained layer) address coincidence dip.
  • NVH automotive metrics: sound pressure level vs sound quality (psychoacoustics: loudness sone, sharpness acum, roughness, fluctuation strength); orders tracking (rpm × order number) on rotating machinery; pass-by noise ISO 362/362-1, interior ISO 5128/16283 workflows.
  • Measurement uncertainty is standard-defined. ISO 9612 workplace noise; ISO 1996 environmental; IEC 61672 Class 1 sound level meters; microphone windscreens and correction factors; room measurement per ISO 3741 (reverberation), 3744/3745 (anechoic/hemi-anechoic), 3747 (in-situ).
  • Simulation tiers: SEA for high-modal density mid-high frequency; FEM/BEM for low frequency and geometry-sensitive problems; ray tracing for large rooms; CFD-acoustic for fan tones — match method band to problem and state hybrid coupling limits.
  • Hearing conservation: OSHA 1910.95 (90 dBA TWA, 5 dB exchange), EU Directive 2003/10/EC; NIOSH 85 dBA with 3 dB exchange recommended — report dose and engineering controls first.
  • Structure-borne path: machinery on isolators — mount stiffness sets fn; resonance in floor slab 20–40 Hz common; resilient mounts ineffective if short-circuited by pipe/conduit.
  • Legal defensibility: measurements with IEC 61672 Class 1, field calibration, chain of custody for environmental noise disputes — photos of mic position relative to reflecting surfaces.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 268 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A cc3b83d8578b

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acoustical-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (168 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,666 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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