audio-jack

audio-jack is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 191 tokens per session (3,324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide and command wrapper for JACK, a professional audio system for connecting music and audio applications with low delay. It covers servers, ports, connections, latency, recording, and internet links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start and configure JACK, connect audio ports, inspect CPU and buffer settings, measure latency, record ports, or send audio over the internet with JackTrip.
Why use it?
It gives developers explicit control over audio routing and timing between JACK-compatible applications.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the media-os plugin — 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to start and configure JACK, connect audio ports, inspect CPU and buffer settings, measure latency, record ports, or send audio over the internet with JackTrip.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damionrashford/media-os/audio-jack
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.

Any agent
npx skills add damionrashford/media-os --skill audio-jack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damionrashford/media-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install media-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,324 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 $0.00191 $0.03324
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.01662
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00332

Measured 11d ago against content hash d01ef880b639, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audio-jack 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/jackctl.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/audio-jack/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audio JACK

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

  • Start a JACK server: → Step 1 (jackctl.py start)
  • List ports / connections: → Step 2 (jackctl.py ports)
  • Connect two clients: → Step 3 (jackctl.py link)
  • Check buffer size / rate / CPU: → Step 4 (jackctl.py status)
  • Measure round-trip latency: → Step 5 (jackctl.py latency)
  • Record N ports to WAV: → Step 6 (jackctl.py record)
  • Send audio over the internet: → Step 7 (jackctl.py jacktrip)

When to use

  • User wants guaranteed low-latency routing between pro-audio apps that speak the JACK client API (Ardour, Reaper, Carla, SuperCollider, Pure Data, Bitwig, REAPER).
  • User wants to bridge multichannel audio across the internet with JackTrip.
  • User wants explicit control over period size / number of periods / sample rate.
  • User's distro runs PipeWire — the libjack shim still answers all these commands, but see Gotchas.

Not for: generic Linux desktop routing (use audio-pipewire), macOS default-device changes (use audio-coreaudio), Windows default-device changes (use audio-wasapi).


Step 1 — Start a JACK server

jackd accepts a single backend driver after -d. This wrapper picks a per-OS default (alsa on Linux, coreaudio on macOS, portaudio on Windows).

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/jackctl.py start \
  --rate 48000 --period 256 --nperiods 2

Force backend + device:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/jackctl.py start \
  --backend alsa --device hw:0 --rate 48000 --period 128

Typical period / nperiods:

Scenario --period --nperiods
Live performance, PCIe / Thunderbolt card 64–128 2
Tracking / monitoring, USB class-compliant 128–256 3
Mixing, offline 512–1024 2

See references/backends.md for per-backend flag quirks.

On JACK2 systems with D-Bus, jack_control can drive the server instead — this wrapper does not (jack_control is interactive by design; scripts should call jackd directly as shown).

Read the full file on GitHub · 320 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 320 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A d01ef880b639

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audio-jack is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 3,324 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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