vst3-review

vst3-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kunitoki/sonic-skills. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,084 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A review guide for VST3 audio plug-ins, which are software instruments and effects that run inside digital audio workstations. It checks VST3 rules, host compatibility, bus setup, parameter handling, and safe audio processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review VST3 plug-in structure, bus negotiation, parameter and state handling, controller communication, and the real-time safety of the audio process callback.
Why use it?
It helps find problems that may only appear in particular music programs, such as silence, broken saved settings, or crashes, rather than during compilation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review VST3 plug-in structure, bus negotiation, parameter and state handling, controller communication, and the real-time safety of the audio process callback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kunitoki/sonic-skills/vst3-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 vst3-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 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,084 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 $0.00116 $0.01084
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00542
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00108

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2ecf9490cc05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vst3-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 10d 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/vst3-review/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VST3 Plugin Review

VST3's split controller/processor model and bus negotiation are the most common sources of host incompatibility. Issues are rarely compile-time errors — they surface as broken recall, silence, or crashes in specific DAWs.

Step 0 — Run universal checks first

Invoke audio-dsp-review and audio-numerics-review before this skill. This skill adds VST3-specific spec compliance and host compatibility checks on top; it does not replace realtime-safety or numerics reviews.

Step 1 — Identify plugin structure

Locate the three core interfaces and their ownership:

Interface Thread Responsibilities
IComponent Main thread Bus layout, activation, state save/load, unit info
IAudioProcessor Audio thread in process(); main thread otherwise Bus arrangement negotiation, latency, processing setup
IEditController Main thread Parameter definitions, UI, MIDI mapping, setComponentState
IConnectionPoint Main thread Processor↔controller messaging via notify()

Step 2 — Scan for VST3-specific violations

Violation Where Risk
process() allocating memory or acquiring a lock IAudioProcessor::process Realtime violation — causes xruns and glitches
Latency not reported via getLatencySamples() IAudioProcessor Host delay compensation broken — early mixdown or timing drift
Bus arrangement not matching what was negotiated in setBusArrangements setBusArrangements / process Channel count mismatch — buffer overread or silent output
ParamID not stable across save/load and plugin versions IEditController Parameter recall broken — automation and presets silently map to wrong params
Calling IHostApplication or IComponentHandler from audio thread process() Not thread-safe — host component handler is main-thread only
IParamValueQueue not fully consumed each process() callback process() Parameter updates lost — automation steps skipped
Bypass parameter not passing audio through cleanly IAudioProcessor / controller parameter setup Incorrect bypassed output — artifacts or silence when host automates bypass
kOfflineProcessing mode not handled separately from realtime setProcessing / process Offline rendering broken — wrong timing, denormal handling, or lookahead
setComponentState not applied by controller on load IEditController::setComponentState Controller shows stale values after preset load
setState / getState on IComponent and IEditController not symmetric Both Preset corruption — one side saves data the other ignores

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 82 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 2ecf9490cc05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vst3-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository kunitoki/sonic-skills (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,084 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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