improv-structure-listening

improv-structure-listening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Natsummerance/skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to hearing the structure of traditional jazz improvisation, especially in standard songs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to follow how musicians develop ideas during a standard tune and respond to claims that jazz is just making things up.
Why use it?
It explains why improvised jazz is not simply random playing. It also distinguishes this structured tradition from genuinely free jazz.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to follow how musicians develop ideas during a standard tune and respond to claims that jazz is just making things up.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/natsummerance/skills/improv-structure-listening
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Natsummerance/skills --skill improv-structure-listening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Natsummerance/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00047 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6343f8ce2035, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improv-structure-listening 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 10d 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.

books/art/how-to-listen-jazz-cangjie/improv-structure-listening/SKILL.md · 108 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 108 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 6343f8ce2035

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improv-structure-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository Natsummerance/skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 812 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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