study

A command for turning a sound or other sonic subject into a structured research note. It separates description, critique, ecological or fictional approaches, and conceptual references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for essays, research notes, sound studies, field-recording analysis, audiovisual scenes, voice, accessibility, archival reflection, and artistic research.
Why use it?
It gives sound analysis a clear structure and helps avoid mixing what is heard with interpretation, theory, accessibility concerns, or unsupported assumptions.

Command

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/study
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouo
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 775 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 $0.00000 $0.00775
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00077

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2217e8a30b86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

study 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 2d 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/study.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/study

Purpose

/study is the sound studies and research command. It turns a sonic object into a disciplined research note, separating perceptual description, critique, ecological or fictional routes, and conceptual references.

When To Use

Use /study for:

  • essays and research notes
  • sonic methodologies
  • sound studies interpretation
  • archival reflection
  • field recording analysis
  • audiovisual scene, voice, accessibility, and fieldwork method questions
  • theoretical development
  • artistic research
  • interdisciplinary sound inquiry

Skills Called

  • akouo-router as an implicit planning pass that supplies the evidence inventory, risks, and forbidden assumptions the synthesis must respect
  • acoulogical-object-listening
  • musical-aesthetic-listening when music, sound design, rhythm, pitch, form, or aesthetic usefulness matters
  • critical-political-listening
  • ecological-posthuman-listening, audiovisual-scenic-listening, voice-speech-listening, musical-aesthetic-listening, or symbolic-fictional-listening, selected according to the object
  • accessibility-normative-listening when the method implies a listener, access path, caption, transcript, or sonic interface
  • reference-layer

Execution Order

  1. Run acoulogical-object-listening to establish the sound as perceptual object.
  2. Run musical-aesthetic-listening when the object has musical structure, production aesthetics, or creative/sound-design stakes.
  3. Run critical-political-listening to identify mediations, exclusions, infrastructures, and risks.
  4. Run ecological-posthuman-listening when place, environment, habitat, nonhuman agency, field recording, or sensor mediation matters.
  5. Run audiovisual-scenic-listening when image, screen, caption, subtitle, interface, video, game, or scene relations matter.
  6. Run voice-speech-listening when voice, speech, transcript, ASR, TTS, or voice-agent context matters.
  7. Run symbolic-fictional-listening when the object invokes myth, ritual, fiction, dream, speculative worlds, or symbolic registers.
  8. Run accessibility-normative-listening when the method implies hearing norms, captions, transcripts, sensory access, or interface access.
  9. Run reference-layer to map concepts, methods, authors, traditions, cautions, adjacent modes, and research routes.
  10. Synthesize into a research-oriented listening note.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 2d ago First seen · 80 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2217e8a30b86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

study is a command published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 775 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.