songsee

songsee is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from StarryCod/cogitum. It costs 20 tokens per session (648 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of songsee, MIT.

A command-line tool that turns audio files into spectrograms and other visual charts. A spectrogram shows how a recording's frequencies change over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect frequency, pitch classes, loudness, tempo, speech-related features, onsets, and selected time sections of WAV, MP3, or other supported audio.
Why use it?
It makes musical structure and sound changes visible without needing a separate audio-analysis application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/starrycod/cogitum/songsee
Any agent
npx skills add StarryCod/cogitum --skill songsee
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StarryCod/cogitum

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 648 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00020 $0.00648
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00065

Measured 4d ago against content hash 61a9fd39d0af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

songsee 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to songsee — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cogitum/data/skills/media/songsee/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

songsee

Generate spectrograms and multi-panel audio feature visualizations from audio files.

Prerequisites

Requires Go:

go install github.com/steipete/songsee/cmd/songsee@latest

Optional: ffmpeg for formats beyond WAV/MP3.

Quick Start

# Basic spectrogram
songsee track.mp3

# Save to specific file
songsee track.mp3 -o spectrogram.png

# Multi-panel visualization grid
songsee track.mp3 --viz spectrogram,mel,chroma,hpss,selfsim,loudness,tempogram,mfcc,flux

# Time slice (start at 12.5s, 8s duration)
songsee track.mp3 --start 12.5 --duration 8 -o slice.jpg

# From stdin
cat track.mp3 | songsee - --format png -o out.png

Visualization Types

Use --viz with comma-separated values:

Type Description
spectrogram Standard frequency spectrogram
mel Mel-scaled spectrogram
chroma Pitch class distribution
hpss Harmonic/percussive separation
selfsim Self-similarity matrix
loudness Loudness over time
tempogram Tempo estimation
mfcc Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients
flux Spectral flux (onset detection)

Multiple --viz types render as a grid in a single image.

Common Flags

Flag Description
--viz Visualization types (comma-separated)
--style Color palette: classic, magma, inferno, viridis, gray
--width / --height Output image dimensions
--window / --hop FFT window and hop size
--min-freq / --max-freq Frequency range filter
--start / --duration Time slice of the audio
--format Output format: jpg or png
-o Output file path

Notes

  • WAV and MP3 are decoded natively; other formats require ffmpeg
  • Output images can be inspected with vision_analyze for automated audio analysis
  • Useful for comparing audio outputs, debugging synthesis, or documenting audio processing pipelines
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. 4d ago First seen · 84 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 61a9fd39d0af

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songsee is a skill published in the GitHub repository StarryCod/cogitum (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 648 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to songsee, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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