subwave: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/subwave-llm-bench/SKILL.md

subwave-llm-bench is a skill for Claude Code from perminder-klair/subwave. It costs 234 tokens per session (2,426 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A test tool for comparing language models on the different writing and music-selection tasks used by the SUB/WAVE radio station.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare models on track picks, listener requests, DJ scripts, banter, programme planning, and spoken segments.
Why use it?
It shows which model handles real station tasks reliably before you use it on air, without changing the live controller.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is perminder-klair/subwave's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on subwave itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything subwave configures →

About the project

Subwave is an internet radio station where an AI DJ selects music and speaks between tracks for every listener at once. Listeners can request music in plain language, while operators manage the queue, schedule, DJ personas, and station activity. Its catalogue entries define skills and workflows for operating the station.

perminder-klair/subwave · 1,309 stars · on GitHub · getsubwave.com

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to perminder-klair/subwave. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perminder-klair/subwave/develop/.claude/skills/subwave-llm-bench/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 234 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 68
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Data Exfiltration · line 70
    Code enumerates, copies, or searches environment variables for secrets. Bulk environment access can collect credentials unrelated to the skill's stated purpose.
    Fix: Read only explicitly required environment variables by name. Avoid enumerating or copying the full environment, and never log or transmit credentials to untrusted destinations.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 150
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 153
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00234 $0.02426
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00243

Measured 9d ago against content hash b30338114ac3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

subwave-llm-bench scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/assess-models.sh), 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

copy it out first: `export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=$(docker exec sub-wave-controller printenv OPENROUTER_API_KEY)`.
.claude/skills/subwave-llm-bench/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SUB/WAVE LLM model benchmark

Two harnesses, one job: measure how well a provider + model handles the station's real LLM calls before trusting it on air.

  • llm-bench (controller/scripts/llm-bench/, npm run llm-bench) — the primary harness. A matrix runner over every on-air call kind: pool picks (pickNextTrack), agent picks (djAgentPick), pool + agent segments (generateSegment / djAgentSegment), request matching (matchRequest / djAgentRequest), the free-text scripts (intro, link, station ID, hourly), banter, and the programme family (plan, beats, exchanges). Scores reliability + deterministic rule checks, prints a per-model comparison table, writes a diffable JSON report.
  • picker-test.mjs — the legacy picker-only deep-dive. Still useful for high-iteration picker runs comparable with historical results, and it has a bundled orchestration script (see the legacy section at the end).

Both import the live prompts and schemas from src/ (never copies), fake everything external (library, tools, weather/news data), and override provider/model only inside their own short-lived process — the live controller's configured model is never touched.

The two things that surprise people

  1. Routing matters as much as the model. The same model can pass through one provider and fail through another, because each @ai-sdk/* provider translates tools / structured output differently. Canonical case: deepseek-v4-flash scored 0/4 via the deepseek direct provider but 4/4 via openrouter. Always benchmark through the routing you'll actually deploy — "is model X good?" is the wrong question; "is provider+X good?" is the right one.
  2. The stress scenarios are where truth lives. Easy cells make every model look fine. The verdict cells are: djAgentPick/long-context (full prompt + tool loop), generateSegment/dull-weather (the model must decline to air — small models botch the silence encoding; a huge wall-clock here means the structured-output retry rescued a failed first attempt), and the multi-voice JSON kinds (generateBanter, generateProgrammeExchange).

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 9d ago First seen · 186 lines · 234 tokens per session scan C b30338114ac3

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subwave-llm-bench is a skill published in the GitHub repository perminder-klair/subwave (1,309 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 234 tokens to every session and 2,426 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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