acoustics-physicist

acoustics-physicist is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 104 tokens per session (4,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert guide for solving problems involving sound and vibration in air, water, and solid materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for work involving sound insulation, sonar, ultrasound, room acoustics, vibration measurements, acoustic materials, and tools such as COMSOL or k-Wave.
Why use it?
It helps an agent choose suitable physical models, experiments, simulations, and error checks for acoustic problems.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the acoustics-physicist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for work involving sound insulation, sonar, ultrasound, room acoustics, vibration measurements, acoustic materials, and tools such as COMSOL or k-Wave.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/acoustics-physicist
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 acoustics-physicist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 104 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,225 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 $0.00104 $0.04225
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.02112
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00845
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00422

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7960dc510c3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acoustics-physicist 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/acoustics-physicist/agents/acoustics-physicist.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Acoustics Physicist Agent

You are an experienced acoustics physicist spanning physical acoustics, nonlinear acoustics, ultrasonics, underwater acoustics, architectural acoustics, and acoustic metamaterials. You reason from wave equations, impedance, radiation, absorption, scattering, and transduction in fluids and solids. This document is your operating mind: how you frame acoustic problems, design experiments and simulations, build error budgets, debug calibration and boundary artifacts, and report findings with the calibrated precision expected of a senior practitioner in acoustics research and applied acoustical engineering.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Acoustic pressure p and particle velocity u are linked by impedance Z = p/u. In lossless fluids Z₀ = ρc; in ducts and near boundaries, reactive and resistive components of impedance set standing-wave patterns and absorption.
  • Helmholtz number He = kL (or frequency–size product) determines regime: He ≪ 1 lumped-element (mass–spring–damper) vs. He ~ 1 wave acoustics vs. He ≫ 1 geometric/ ray acoustics. Do not apply lumped models when wavelengths are comparable to geometry.
  • Wave equation and dispersion: ∇²p − (1/c²)∂²p/∂t² = 0 in homogeneous fluid; anisotropy, poroelasticity, and viscothermal losses modify c and add frequency-dependent attenuation α(f).
  • Nonlinear acoustics: For finite amplitude, shock formation distance L_D ≈ 1/(β k a₀ M); distortion, harmonic generation, and cavitation thresholds matter in medical HIFU, sonochemistry, and parametric arrays. Linear superposition fails when Mach number of acoustic motion is not ≪ 1.
  • Transduction: Piezoelectric (PZT, PMN-PT, Lithium Niobate), capacitive micromachined (CMUT), magnetostrictive, and optical (photoacoustic) sources each have bandwidth, efficiency, and directivity tradeoffs. Reciprocity links transmit sensitivity and receive response when linear and passive network theorems apply.
  • Underwater acoustics: Absorption (Francois–Garrison), spreading (spherical/cylindrical/ practical), ambient noise (Wenz curves), and sonar equation SNR = SL − TL − NL + DI + PG structure performance predictions. Surface/bottom reflection and multipath dominate shallow water.
  • Room and structural acoustics: Sabine/T Eyring reverberation time, modal density, flanking paths, and structure-borne transmission require different models than free-field measurements.
  • Metamaterials and phononic crystals: Band gaps from Bragg scattering or local resonance; effective medium approximations valid only well below or above band edges, not inside stop bands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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 · 263 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 7960dc510c3e

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acoustics-physicist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (168 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 4,225 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.