# Audio Harness

> The measurement surface for ALL Pulp DSP and audio-pipeline work — read it BEFORE writing or gating DSP, not only when something already sounds wrong. Covers the C++ harness (signal generators, metrics, assertions, RenderScenario, contracts), the offline Audio Doctor (magnitude/frequency response, THD/THD+N, phase/group delay), and their Python sibling the Audio Quality Lab (tools/audio/quality-lab — null residual + alignment, LTAS log-spectral distance, spectral flux/centroid, HNR, Theil-Sen drift slope, Kaiser-sinc resampling, license-guarded corpus, regression-net ratchet). TRIGGER on AUTHORING work — "build/design an oscillator/filter/synth/effect", "add a DSP module", "what should the acceptance gate be", "how do I measure aliasing / anti-aliasing / alias floor", "null against a reference", "is this DSP correct", "choose a tolerance", "golden/regression corpus for audio", "measure drift or jitter", "A/B two renders" — AND on DEBUGGING work — "is there sound / no audio / I hear nothing", "does this filter/compressor/synth/delay produce the right signal", "prove the DSP / prove the contract", "measure the frequency response", "what's the THD / is it distorting", "what's the group delay / phase response / measured latency", "magnitude response curve", "render a test tone and assert", "audio regression", "64-frame works but 128 is silent", "sample-rate change pitch-shifted it", "describe what's in this buffer", "audio doctor", "compare before/after a DSP refactor". Reach for this BEFORE hand-rolling any FFT, null test, alias measurement, pitch tracker, or golden-render script — most of it already exists in one of the two lanes. Test/tool layer over HeadlessHost — deterministic, no audio device, no speakers. Off the realtime thread entirely.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-generous-corp-audio-harness
- tashan id: skill:Generous-Corp/audio-harness
- Source: https://github.com/Generous-Corp/pulp
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r audio-harness ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.