transductive-media-listening

transductive-media-listening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sonicfieldlabs/akouo. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sound-analysis guide for studying how other things become sound through microphones, sensors, software, archives, biological systems, or symbols. It examines what changes, disappears, or is added during that conversion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for sonification, where data is turned into sound, biosensors, hydrophones, contact microphones, voice cloning, speech-to-text, AI-generated audio, datasets, sample packs, and degraded recordings.
Why use it?
It makes the transformation process visible instead of treating a recording or generated sound as a neutral copy. This helps identify compression, distortion, invention, and limits in machine-mediated audio.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for sonification, where data is turned into sound, biosensors, hydrophones, contact microphones, voice cloning, speech-to-text, AI-generated audio, datasets, sample packs, and degraded recordings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sonicfieldlabs/akouo/transductive-media-listening
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sonicfieldlabs/akouo --skill transductive-media-listening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 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 $0.00147 $0.02265
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.00906
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00227

Measured 23d ago against content hash 219810736b92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transductive-media-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 23d 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/transductive-media-listening/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

transductive-media-listening

Purpose

transductive-media-listening is the mediation ear of akoúō. It listens to conversion: how something becomes sound through technical, biological, computational, electrical, archival, or symbolic transformation.

This mode asks what is transformed, lost, invented, compressed, amplified, tokenized, or hallucinated when one domain becomes sonic or machine-readable.

When To Use

Use this skill for:

  • sonification
  • biosensors
  • hydrophones
  • contact microphones
  • field recording devices
  • AI-generated audio
  • voice cloning
  • speech-to-text outputs
  • datasets and model training material
  • sample packs
  • compression artifacts
  • degraded media
  • installations
  • sensor-to-sound systems
  • algorithmic or model-mediated audio
  • platform-mediated recordings and uploads

Core Question

What is transformed, lost, invented, compressed, amplified, or hallucinated when one domain becomes sonic?

Conceptual Refinements

  • Transduction is conversion across energies, bodies, signals, media, institutions, and interpretive regimes; it is never neutral transport.
  • Acoustic technics produce phenomena as well as capture them: microphones, hydrophones, codecs, headphones, sonograms, instruments, and platforms each create a distinct listening relation.
  • Separate machine listening, voice agents, ASR cascades, speech-native systems, neural audio codecs, and generative audio; they are not interchangeable.
  • Sonification and data-to-sound mappings are interfaces and arguments, not transparent evidence of the source data.
  • Anthropological or archival transduction can turn listening practices into legible objects; treat this as mediation with historical and political stakes.

Input Assumptions

This skill can work with:

  • an audio file
  • metadata about capture devices or platforms
  • microphone, sensor, codec, or model details
  • a sonification mapping description
  • an AI audio generation prompt
  • a dataset description
  • a transcript produced by speech-to-text
  • a primary text, notation, data sequence, or code inscription under a declared reading convention
  • an archive or field recording note
  • machine-listening, ASR, classifier, embedding, or codec-token output

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 23d ago Changed · +13 lines 219810736b92
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 162 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 24ae13390f98

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transductive-media-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,265 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.

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