covenant

covenant is a command for Claude Code from sonicfieldlabs/akouo. It costs 0 tokens per session (740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for applying a human-written listening policy before or during audio capture. The policy can define what may be heard, retained, revealed, blurred, or refused, including time-based restrictions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load or verify a listening policy, run listening under that policy, audit an earlier hearing, explain the policy’s effects, and record its ethical conditions.
Why use it?
It helps protect a person’s, household’s, or community’s rules about privacy and consent. It also records which restrictions were enforced when a hearing took place.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/sonicfieldlabs/akouo/covenant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 740 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00074

Measured 6d ago against content hash 99e184d21fcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

covenant 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 6d 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.

commands/covenant.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/covenant

Purpose

/covenant is the sovereignty command of akoúō. It loads, verifies, and applies a listening covenant — a human-written declaration of what this ear will not listen to, will release after hearing, will not reveal, will not retain, will blur, or will refuse at certain hours — and runs the listening under it, reporting what was enforced, what was withheld, and what remains as commitment.

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).

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 99e184d21fcc

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covenant is a command published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 740 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.