harness-starter-audio

harness-starter-audio is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from octos-org/octos. It costs 34 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A starter skill that synthesises a small WAV audio file and saves it in the workspace. WAV is a common audio-file format; this starter uses a simple sine tone as a stand-in for a real audio generator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point for workflows that produce text-to-speech audio, podcast renders, or sound effects, with a label and optional duration.
Why use it?
It demonstrates how an audio-producing workflow can deliver a named file that the workspace checks for existence and size. The generated tone is only a placeholder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it as a starting point for workflows that produce text-to-speech audio, podcast renders, or sound effects, with a label and optional duration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/octos-org/octos/harness-starter-audio
About the project

Octos is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on a user's computer and can connect to different AI providers, execute code, browse the web, remember information, schedule jobs, and create documents through browser, terminal, and messaging interfaces. The catalogue entries extend or configure this assistant's workflows.

octos-org/octos · 1,038 stars · on GitHub

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 octos-org/octos --skill harness-starter-audio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/octos-org/octos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 13d ago against content hash 55e553451e97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-starter-audio 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 13d 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.

crates/app-skills/harness-starter-audio/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Harness Starter: Audio

An audio workflow starter. Synthesizes a tiny 440 Hz WAV clip as a standin for a real TTS engine. Copy this crate when you want to build an app that ships an audio deliverable (TTS, podcast render, sound effect generation, etc.).

What this starter demonstrates

  • Multi-validator contract: file_exists:$primary_audio and file_size_min:$primary_audio:4096.
  • Named artifact (primary_audio) plus role alias (primary).
  • Glob-based resolution (audio/*.wav).
  • on_failure: ["notify_user:..."] for structured failure reporting.

See docs/OCTOS_HARNESS_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md for the full contract.

Tools

synthesize_clip

Synthesize a short WAV clip for a label.

{"label": "weekly digest", "duration_ms": 1000}

Parameters:

  • label (required): used to derive the filename (audio/weekly-digest.wav).
  • duration_ms (optional): clip duration in ms, clamped to [100, 5000]. Default 500.

Artifact:

  • writes audio/<slug>.wav
  • policy primary_audio = "audio/*.wav" resolves to this path.
  • file_size_min:$primary_audio:4096 enforces non-empty output.

Replace this stub

The synthesizer produces a pure sine tone; it is not a real TTS. When adopting the starter, replace render_sine_wav with your render engine (piper, eSpeak, ElevenLabs, Coqui, etc.) and keep the rest of the contract unchanged.

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 13d ago First seen · 52 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 55e553451e97

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harness-starter-audio is a skill published in the GitHub repository octos-org/octos (1,038 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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