apollo-onboarding

apollo-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fomoPhil/uad-console-mcp. It costs 183 tokens per session (3,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup workflow for a Universal Audio Apollo recording system and connected equipment. It plans the physical inputs, digital connections, clock source, sample rate, and console configuration based on the actual hardware.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Apollo status and channels, plan microphone and instrument connections, configure ADAT expanders, choose a clock master, and manage safe monitor and phantom-power changes.
Why use it?
Apollo models differ in their available channels and output numbering, so checking the connected system prevents unsafe or incorrect audio configuration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect Apollo status and channels, plan microphone and instrument connections, configure ADAT expanders, choose a clock master, and manage safe monitor and phantom-power changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fomophil/uad-console-mcp/apollo-onboarding
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 fomoPhil/uad-console-mcp --skill apollo-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fomoPhil/uad-console-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,504 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 $0.00183 $0.03504
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01752
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00350

Measured 9d ago against content hash 292b099fe72a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apollo-onboarding 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 9d 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.

skills/apollo-onboarding/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apollo onboarding

Bottom line: discover reality, plan the wiring, settle the clock, then configure. Never assume per-model I/O. Channel counts, input types and monitor-output indexes differ across Apollo models. uad_list_channels and uad_raw_get report what is actually there; use them instead of guessing from the model name.

Rails that apply to every step

  • Read before you write. uad_get_status and uad_list_channels first, every time.
  • Never raise the monitor level for the user beyond the rail. The server caps monitor level at UAD_MCP_MAX_MONITOR_DB (default -6 dB), allows at most +6 dB per call and +10 dB per 30 s, and treats unmute and un-dim as level events. If a call is refused, relay the refusal text: a SafetyRefusal message always names the env var or confirm flag that would unblock it. Do not retry blindly.
  • Ask before 48V. uad_set_preamp(phantom_48v=true) also needs confirm_condenser_mic=true, because phantom power can destroy a ribbon microphone. If the user has not said what the mic is, ask.
  • Clock and sample-rate changes need confirm=true and are refused while audio is flowing (any input above -60 dB). Stop playback and recording first, and say so before changing either.
  • The server cannot save a Console session. After configuring, remind the user to press Cmd+S in the Console app. uad_snapshot is this server's own state file, not a Console session.

Step 0: prove the engine is reachable

uad_get_status()

Note engine.connected, clock.source, clock.locked, clock.sample_rate, every entry in devices (a cascade shows more than one), and safety.mode. If the mode is readonly, stop and tell the user that nothing can be changed until UAD_MCP_MODE is set to safe or full.

If the engine is unreachable the error says so plainly: the UA Mixer Engine listens on 127.0.0.1:4710 and starts with the UAD software, staying up after Console is closed.

Step 1: interview the user

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 255 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 292b099fe72a

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apollo-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository fomoPhil/uad-console-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 3,504 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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