ecological-posthuman-listening

ecological-posthuman-listening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sonicfieldlabs/akouo. It costs 148 tokens per session (2,140 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sound-analysis guide that shifts attention from humans to animals, environments, materials, habitats, and technical systems. It examines how different forms of life and infrastructure share sonic spaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for field recordings, forests, rivers, oceans, weather, animal sounds, cities, soundwalks, hydrophones, contact microphones, and environmental installations. It also supports work about climate, extraction, infrastructure, and damaged habitats.
Why use it?
It prevents the human listener from becoming the only viewpoint. This helps describe environmental and interspecies relationships without treating nature as a simple backdrop.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it for field recordings, forests, rivers, oceans, weather, animal sounds, cities, soundwalks, hydrophones, contact microphones, and environmental installations. It also supports work about climate, extraction, infrastructure, and damaged habitats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sonicfieldlabs/akouo/ecological-posthuman-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 sonicfieldlabs/akouo --skill ecological-posthuman-listening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,140 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 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 $0.00148 $0.02140
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01070
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00214

Measured 11d ago against content hash f462b194eea5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ecological-posthuman-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 11d 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.

skills/ecological-posthuman-listening/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ecological-posthuman-listening

Purpose

ecological-posthuman-listening is the more-than-human ear of akoúō. It decenters the human listener and attends to ecological, environmental, interspecies, elemental, sensor-mediated, and nonhuman relations.

This mode is not romantic nature listening. It listens across scales, agencies, habitats, bodies, technical systems, histories, land relations, and infrastructures.

When To Use

Use this skill for:

  • field recordings
  • forests, rivers, oceans, mountains, farms, cities, and weather
  • hydrophones
  • contact microphones
  • geophony, biophony, and anthrophony
  • animal sound
  • urban ecology
  • soundwalks
  • environmental installations
  • interspecies work
  • meditation or expanded attention practices
  • climate, extraction, infrastructure, and habitat disturbance

Core Question

What appears when the human listener stops being the only center of interpretation?

Conceptual Refinements

  • Distinguish soundscape, acoustemology, and aurality: environment, situated sonic knowledge, and historical regimes of listening are related but not identical.
  • Use listening-with: attend to plural ears, species, bodies, thresholds, recordists, elsewhere listeners, and mediations rather than treating the field as an object to extract.
  • Acoustic ecology is contested; avoid hi-fi/lo-fi nostalgia, anti-urban bias, pristine-nature fantasies, and conservation-as-composition shortcuts.
  • Field recording is never neutral capture. Microphone choice, editing, location, access, tourism, colonial history, and platform circulation shape what becomes audible.
  • Ecological listening includes infrastructure, climate violence, agriculture, extraction, urban systems, accessibility, and more-than-human vulnerability.

Input Assumptions

This skill can work with:

  • audio files
  • field notes
  • environmental metadata
  • soundwalk descriptions
  • sensor descriptions
  • hydrophone or contact mic recordings
  • prompts describing ecological or more-than-human sound
  • archive notes about place, season, weather, or habitat
  • land-use, infrastructure, fieldwork, or community-context notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 164 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A f462b194eea5

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ecological-posthuman-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 2,140 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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