audio-artifacts-debug SKILL.md skillA
audio-artifacts-debug from gourdja/sonic-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gourdja/sonic-skills/audio-artifacts-debug@git:20260515.3a80b75Pins git:20260515.3a80b75 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gourdja/sonic-skills
- Path
skills/audio-artifacts-debug/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260515.3a80b75, committed May 15, 2026
- Size
- 4,105 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- Unlicense
Systematic checklist for diagnosing audio artifacts. Use when the user describes a sound quality problem — clicks, pops, crackling, silence, DC offset, aliasing, phase issues, or latency problems. Trigger on phrases like "why do I hear clicks?", "my output has DC offset", "there's aliasing in my oscillator", "phase is wrong in mono", "dropout when CPU spikes". Pairs with audio-dsp-review (realtime safety) and audio-numerics-review (numeric correctness) — use those to fix once the cause is found.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Audio Artifacts Debug Audio artifacts have diagnostic signatures — match the symptom to the root cause before touching code. ## Step 1 — Characterize the artifact Ask these questions before reading any code. | Artifact type | Questions to ask | |---------------|-----------------| | **Clicks / pops** | Regular or random? On buffer boundaries? At note on/off? After channel strip toggle? | | **Crackling / distortion** | Constant or load-dependent? Does it correlate with signal level? Worse on silent decay? | | **Silence / dropout** | Immediate or gradual? Only under load? After a specific number of voices? Recovers? | | **DC offset** | Constant or drift? Present from first sample? Appears only after long silence? | | **Aliasing** | Audible as high-frequency mirror tones? Pitch-dependent? Present at all sample rates? | | **Phase issues** | Stereo image collapse in mono? Comb filtering? Only on parallel paths or mid-side? | | **Latency** | DAW reports wrong delay compensation? Wet/dry misaligned? Only at certain buffer sizes? | ## Step 2 — Narrow to root cause | Symptom | Likely cause | Skill / check to apply | |---------|-------------|----------------------| …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gourdja/sonic-skills/audio-artifacts-debug@sha256:b50d6587baec7df6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260515.3a80b75, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_e2iqluzg4pwttboh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 15, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4105 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
gourdja/sonic-skills · 4 stars · license Unlicense · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e2iqluzg4pwttboh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gourdja/sonic-skills/audio-artifacts-debug GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b50d6587baec7df6a95de6a09b3b98d8361899e0ea616e185b2fd335913af53d
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.