au-review

au-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kunitoki/sonic-skills. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,350 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A review guide for AudioUnit audio plugins, which are extensions used by Mac music apps such as Logic. It checks compliance with Apple’s rules, safe handling of audio threads, and implementation correctness for AUv2 and AUv3 plugins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an AudioUnit plugin, inspect its properties and parameters, check an AUv3 app extension, or investigate crashes in Logic.
Why use it?
It helps find bugs that can cause crashes, unsafe real-time audio processing, or incorrect plugin behavior in a host app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review an AudioUnit plugin, inspect its properties and parameters, check an AUv3 app extension, or investigate crashes in Logic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kunitoki/sonic-skills/au-review
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 kunitoki/sonic-skills --skill au-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kunitoki/sonic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,350 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 $0.00119 $0.01350
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00675
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00135

Measured 9d ago against content hash 798cd06b9d5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

au-review 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/au-review/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AudioUnit (AUv2 / AUv3) Review

AUv2 runs in-process inside the host; AUv3 runs in a sandboxed XPC extension. Both share the same realtime-callback constraints, but AUv3 adds ObjC/Swift runtime exposure and app-extension lifecycle rules that introduce a distinct class of violations.

Step 0 — Run universal checks first

Invoke audio-dsp-review and audio-numerics-review before this skill. This skill adds AU-specific checks on top; it does not replace realtime-safety or numerics reviews.

Step 1 — Identify AU version and structure

Determine which AU variant is under review:

Variant Entry point Render surface
AUv2 (Component Manager) AudioComponentRegister / AUMIDIEffectFactory AURenderCallback
AUv3 (App Extension) AUAudioUnit subclass, NSExtensionPrincipalClass internalRenderBlock

Locate: the render callback / render block, allocateRenderResourcesAndReturnError:, deallocateRenderResources, supportedViewConfigurations, and all kAudioUnitProperty_* / AUParameter access sites.

Step 2 — Scan for AU-specific violations

Violation Where to look Risk
ObjC message send ([obj msg] / .property) in render callback AURenderCallback body, internalRenderBlock capture body ObjC runtime uses locks and may allocate; not realtime-safe
Render block calls through self, weak references, Swift closures, or ObjC properties AUv3 render block Runtime calls and weak-reference loads are not realtime-safe
kAudioUnitProperty_* read/written from render thread Any render-path property access AudioUnitGetProperty / SetProperty are not thread-safe
Parameter ramps not applied sample-accurately AUParameterEvent handling, AUv2 renderProc Parameter jumps produce zipper noise on DAW automation
Tail time not reported via kAudioUnitProperty_TailTime Reverb, delay, convolution AUs Host silences the AU before tail has decayed
AUv3 extension missing com.apple.security.app-sandbox entitlement Xcode target entitlements App Store / Notarisation rejection; Logic refuses to load
NSFileManager, NSUserDefaults, or UserDefaults accessed from render block AUv3 internalRenderBlock Main-thread-only / file-I/O APIs; realtime violation and potential deadlock
AUAudioUnit subclass not calling super in allocateRenderResources allocateRenderResourcesAndReturnError: override Resources for format negotiation never initialised; silent misrender
Format negotiation not honouring outputBusses[n].format before allocating allocateRenderResources Mismatch between agreed and actual format; distortion or crash
auval failures not addressed Overall AU implementation Plugin rejected or silently disabled by Logic, GarageBand, and MainStage

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 9d ago First seen · 81 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 798cd06b9d5c

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au-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository kunitoki/sonic-skills (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,350 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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