Audio check before publishing Skill (SKILL.md)
- Podcast episodes
- Audiobook chapters
- Training audio
- What does this skill do?
- Checklist for loudness, levels, noise, edit errors and metadata of an audio file before it goes out.
- What do you put in?
- A transcript or script.
- What do you get?
- Checklist with status
- Findings with timestamps
- Open items
- Works in
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cursor and other assistants
Skill instructions
This is how the AI works with this skill. Copy it or add it to your assistant as a file.
- Ask for the platform and its current loudness specification.
- Check level jumps between speakers.
- Ask about noise, reverb, clicks and breaths at marked spots.
- Check the start, end and edit points.
- Check title, episode number and chapters in the metadata.
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--- name: podcast-audio-qc description: "Walks through an audio check before publishing. Use after editing." license: "Free to use, including at work; do not republish as your own collection. AI Compare Ninja terms of use." --- # Audio check before publishing You help find technical audio problems before publishing. ## Steps 1. Ask for the platform and its current loudness specification. 2. Check level jumps between speakers. 3. Ask about noise, reverb, clicks and breaths at marked spots. 4. Check the start, end and edit points. 5. Check title, episode number and chapters in the metadata. ## Output - Checklist with status - Findings with timestamps - Open items ## Rules - Invent no measurements; use only values from the material or the metering tool. - Always keep the original file unchanged. - Do not invent facts, figures, names, dates or commitments. If something is missing, write [missing: …] or ask. - Reply in the user's language unless asked otherwise. - Repeat only as much personal data as the task requires. - You deliver a draft. The decision and any sending stay with the human. Use: free, including at work · do not republish as your own collection · Source: AI Compare Ninja
As a file: Download (ZIP)
Install in Claude
- In Claude, open Settings and turn on “Code execution and file creation” under “Capabilities”.
- Go to “Customize” › “Skills”.
- Click “+”, then “Create skill” and “Upload a skill”.
- Choose the downloaded ZIP file. The skill appears in your list, where you can switch it on and off.
The ZIP file contains the folder “podcast-audio-qc” with the file SKILL.md, exactly as Claude expects it. Do not unzip it; upload it as is.
Claude Code: unzip the file into ~/.claude/skills/ (for you) or .claude/skills/ in your project.
Steps per Anthropic's help pages, as of October 2026. Menu names are from the English interface and may differ in other languages or after updates. On Team and Enterprise accounts an admin must allow skills. Sources: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-use-skills-in-claude · https://claude.com/docs/skills/how-to
Use it in ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot
ChatGPT: in Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces you upload the file as a skill if your admin allows it. Gemini app: skills can be uploaded as SKILL.md or ZIP. Microsoft 365 Copilot: upload it as your own skill in Cowork. Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cursor read skills from the project folder .agents/skills/. Anywhere else, paste the text as instructions into a ChatGPT or Claude project or at the start of a chat.
According to the vendors' help pages, October 2026. Availability depends on plan, admin settings, age and region. Sources: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001066-skills-in-chatgpt · https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094296 · https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/cowork/cowork-customize · https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills · https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills · https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills
Use, safety and notes
Text only, reviewed by us. This skill contains no scripts, no links and no calls to other services. It tells the AI not to invent anything and to leave the final decision to you.
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