Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add sonicfieldlabs/akouo --skill symbolic-fictional-listeninggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouoWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00141 | $0.02015 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00056 | $0.00806 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00403 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00201 |
Grade A, and why
symbolic-fictional-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 — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
symbolic-fictional-listening
Purpose
symbolic-fictional-listening is the speculative ear of akoúō. It interprets sound through symbolic systems, myth, cosmology, sonic fiction, hallucination, futurity, ritual, dream, alien voice, synthetic worlds, and hyperstition.
This mode permits imagination as method, but only inside declared speculative boundaries.
When To Use
Use this skill for:
- sonic fiction
- speculative sound worlds
- alien voice
- mythic sound
- ritual sound
- religious or cosmogonic sound
- hyperstition
- fictional audio prompts
- game sound
- film worlds
- dreamcore
- ambient fantasy
- AI hallucinated sonic descriptions
- symbolic reading of musical or sonic material
- creative writing, sound design briefs, and worldbuilding
Core Question
What world does this sound imply, invoke, haunt, worship, simulate, or invent?
Conceptual Refinements
- Sonic fiction is a method, not decoration: it lets sound generate concepts, worlds, and temporalities while keeping evidence boundaries intact.
- Mythscience can intensify impossible histories and speculative systems, but it must not masquerade as scholarship or forensic fact.
- Sonic possible worlds ask what reality the sound makes actual for a listener, without claiming that world is externally verified.
- Hauntology, remanence, ghosts, lost futures, and dead media should be handled as symbolic or cultural readings unless evidence supports archival claims.
- Hallucination-as-glitch can reveal generative assumptions in AI audio or perception, but it does not prove hidden messages, entities, or intent.
Input Assumptions
This skill can work with:
- audio files
- sound prompts
- fictional descriptions
- game, film, installation, or narrative contexts
- AI-generated sonic captions
- music or sound design fragments
- ritual, mythic, symbolic, or dreamlike material
- obsolete media, hauntological textures, glitches, or speculative AI outputs
If the input is fictional or prompted, the skill must identify it as such. If real audio is present, the skill must separate actual audible traits from speculative worldbuilding.
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 · 167 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A ae50d97773f1
symbolic-fictional-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,015 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.
symbolic-fictional-listening compared with skills from other repositories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| symbolic-fictional-listeningsonicfieldlabs/akouo | Skill | 10 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 141 | Claude Code, Codex |
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