covenant

/covenant

Purpose

/covenant is the sovereignty command of akoúō. Its parties author the covenant and the owner applies the adopted revision. The command reports which supported rules were checked, which material was withheld, and which terms remain interpretive commitments.

Use it when the listening answers to someone: a person's right to silence, a household's retention rules, a community's protocol for ancestral or place-bound sound, a habitat's "and not one decibel more."

When To Use

Use /covenant for:

• listening under an active covenant and reporting its effects honestly
• adopting, inspecting, or verifying a covenant before any capture happens
• auditing a prior hearing (own or another agent's) against a declared covenant
• explaining a covenant back to its author: which lines the engine enforces, which it carries as commitments
• registering a hearing whose memory record must say under which ethics it was listened

The default of every chain is NO covenant: sovereignty is opted into by the operator, never imposed by the tool. /covenant with no covenant available reports exactly that and stops.

Skills Called

• akouo-router
• sovereign-listening (primary)
• acoulogical-object-listening (secondary)
• signal-inspection-listening (corrective)

Execution Order

1. Run akouo-router; the covenant's existence, identity, and enforcement surface are part of the evidence inventory.
2. Run sovereign-listening: verify the covenant (id, version, sha256, lineage), apply pre-capture rules, and declare which rules the host's gates enforce.
3. Run acoulogical-object-listening on what the covenant admits — the allowed material deserves a full perceptual description on its own terms.
4. Run signal-inspection-listening as corrective: measured claims about the remaining material stay measured.
5. Synthesize; populate the output's covenant block (identity + withheld list + commitments count) and what_remains_hidden with withheld categories. When the host will store the hearing, the memory record carries the covenant's identity (spec v1.3 covenant block in akousma stores).