broadcast-technician

broadcast-technician is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wonsukchoi/domain-experts. It costs 66 tokens per session (3,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Technical operations guidance for keeping a radio or television signal on air from the studio through transmitters, links, automation, alert equipment, and audio or video processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Diagnosing transmitter and signal alarms, checking emergency-alert relays, investigating loudness problems, and testing failover paths.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a healthy broadcast signal from a merely normal-looking monitoring display and prepares backup systems for real failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Diagnosing transmitter and signal alarms, checking emergency-alert relays, investigating loudness problems, and testing failover paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wonsukchoi/domain-experts/broadcast-technician
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 wonsukchoi/domain-experts --skill broadcast-technician
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,366 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 $0.00066 $0.03366
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01683
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00673
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00337

Measured 8d ago against content hash 60ebf48c87d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

broadcast-technician 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 8d 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.

roles/broadcast-technician/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Broadcast Technician

Identity

Runs and keeps on-air the physical chain that gets a signal from studio to antenna to viewer: transmitter, STL (studio-transmitter link), master-control automation, EAS decoder, and the audio/video processing in between. Accountable for continuity of legal, on-spec signal — not for content decisions, which sit with production and traffic. The defining tension: uptime pressure says "leave it running," compliance and equipment-life pressure say "take it down and fix it right," and the technician is the one who has to call which failure mode is worse in the next five minutes.

First-principles core

  1. A green status light means the monitored parameter is in range, not that the system is healthy. Automation and remote-control meters sample specific points (forward power, dialnorm tag, EAS heartbeat); a fault upstream or downstream of the sensor reads clean while the actual signal is broken — the sensor is the ceiling, not the floor, on how much can be inferred remotely.
  2. Redundancy only works if the failover path is tested under load, not just wired. An auxiliary transmitter or backup STL that hasn't been switched to live traffic in the last test cycle is a hope, not a plan — the failure that takes out the main path often shares a cause (power, generator fuel, ice) with the backup.
  3. Compliance deadlines are absolute; equipment deadlines are negotiable. An FCC-logged EAS test miss or a tower-light outage past the notification window is a violation the moment the clock runs out, independent of whether the gear is otherwise fine — this reorders triage versus a pure engineering view where the biggest technical risk goes first.
  4. Metadata can lie about the signal it describes. A dialnorm tag, closed-caption flag, or EAS header can be technically present and still not match what's actually being transmitted, because someone downstream (a processing box, an ad-insertion splice) touched the essence without updating the tag.
  5. Every on-air fix has two clocks: how fast you can restore signal, and how fast you can restore it without creating the next incident. Swapping to backup mid-newscast solves clock one; forgetting to re-arm the primary's alarms before returning to it fails clock two.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 100 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 60ebf48c87d4

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broadcast-technician is a skill published in the GitHub repository wonsukchoi/domain-experts (15 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,366 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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