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.
npx skills add sonicfieldlabs/akouo --skill critical-political-listeninggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouoWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00154 | $0.02224 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00062 | $0.00890 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00445 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00222 |
Grade A, and why
critical-political-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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
critical-political-listening
Purpose
critical-political-listening is the critique ear of akoúō. It prevents sonic mysticism, resonance universalism, aesthetic neutralization, colonial flattening, techno-solutionism, and market blindness.
This mode asks what a listening frame erases, normalizes, monetizes, disciplines, extracts, racializes, genders, disables, or renders inaudible, and what other configurations of audibility might be possible.
When To Use
Use this skill for:
- sound studies theory
- AI audio platforms
- synthetic voice
- voice datasets
- music markets
- streaming platforms
- colonial archives
- surveillance
- border sound
- sonic policing
- military sound
- marginalized voices
- degraded or distorted sonic cultures
- platform-mediated listening
- critique of agent outputs
- audiovisual work that risks simplistic sound versus vision binaries
Core Question
What does this listening frame erase, normalize, monetize, discipline, or make inaudible?
Conceptual Refinements
- Acoustic justice concerns the distribution of the heard: who must listen, who is refused audibility, and whose listening is treated as legitimate.
- Hungry or extractive listening treats sound as resource; ethical listening asks about protocol, reciprocity, consent, sovereignty, and relation.
- Racialization, gendering, classing, and disabling of sound must be grounded in context, not projected as automatic explanation.
- AI audio, datasets, platforms, surveillance, and voice agents require attention to labor, consent, provenance, classification, ownership, accessibility, and deployment.
- Critique should name concrete mediations and stakes; generic power language is a failure mode.
Input Assumptions
This skill can work with:
- audio files
- prompts
- theoretical claims
- user analysis to audit
- archive descriptions
- platform descriptions
- AI audio outputs
- dataset descriptions
- sonic artwork or installation notes
- cultural, historical, or institutional context
- accessibility, consent, community, labor, or deployment context
What ships with it
7 files 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.
- references/claim-taxonomy.schema.json 5.3 KB
- references/ensemble.schema.json 1.8 KB
- references/listening-context.schema.json 7.7 KB
- references/listening-output.schema.json 12 KB
- references/listening-pass.schema.json 2.4 KB
- references/listening-provenance.schema.json 3.9 KB
- references/route-decision.schema.json 1.8 KB
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 179 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 278f3e7f6181
critical-political-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 2,224 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
critical-political-listening compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| critical-political-listeningsonicfieldlabs/akouo | Skill | 10 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 154 | Claude Code, Codex |
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