songsee

A command-line tool that turns audio into spectrograms and other visual panels showing features such as pitch, loudness, rhythm, and frequency content. It can read WAV and MP3 files directly and can use ffmpeg for other formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create full-track or time-slice images, combine several visualizations into a grid, adjust frequency and FFT settings, and output PNG or JPG files.
Why use it?
It makes patterns in an audio recording easier to inspect than by listening alone.

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/understudy-ai/understudy/songsee
Any agent
npx skills add understudy-ai/understudy --skill songsee
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/understudy-ai/understudy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% 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 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 3d ago against content hash 70be41fdab97, 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 3d 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

97% 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.

skills/songsee/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

songsee

Generate spectrograms + feature panels from audio.

Quick start

  • Spectrogram: songsee track.mp3
  • Multi-panel: songsee track.mp3 --viz spectrogram,mel,chroma,hpss,selfsim,loudness,tempogram,mfcc,flux
  • Time slice: songsee track.mp3 --start 12.5 --duration 8 -o slice.jpg
  • Stdin: cat track.mp3 | songsee - --format png -o out.png

Common flags

  • --viz list (repeatable or comma-separated)
  • --style palette (classic, magma, inferno, viridis, gray)
  • --width / --height output size
  • --window / --hop FFT settings
  • --min-freq / --max-freq frequency range
  • --start / --duration time slice
  • --format jpg|png

Notes

  • WAV/MP3 decode native; other formats use ffmpeg if available.
  • Multiple --viz renders a grid.
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. 3d ago First seen · 50 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 70be41fdab97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

songsee is a skill published in the GitHub repository understudy-ai/understudy (456 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to songsee, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.