AKOÚŌ v0.9.2

What's Changed

• Align ecosystem release references by @emeisazam in #12
• Enforce human listening attribution by @emeisazam in #13

Full Changelog: v0.9.1...v0.9.2

AKOÚŌ v0.9.1

What's Changed

• Release AKOÚŌ 0.9 accountable listening by @emeisazam in #7
• Bump postcss from 8.5.16 to 8.5.25 in /app by @dependabot[bot] in #8
• Align documented Listening Stack releases by @emeisazam in #9
• Align GERM 0.3.2 compatibility reference by @emeisazam in #10
• Clarify embodied heard claim boundary by @emeisazam in #11

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #8

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1

AKOÚŌ v0.9 — Listening Provenance and Several Times

Adds attributable listening passes, provenance and corpus lineage, route decisions, explicit ensembles, corpus listening, and the corrected evidence ladder. Prompts, transcripts, field notes, and descriptions remain attributed inputs rather than heard claims. Contract: akouo/v0.9.

AKOÚŌ v0.7 — Sovereign Listening

The sovereignty layer: the Rights of the Audible made operational.

• sovereign-listening (fifteenth mode): listening under a listening covenant — a small, human-written declaration of what this ear will not listen to, will release after hearing, will not reveal, will not retain, will blur, or will refuse at certain hours, and why. The covenant is a bridge language, not a guarantee of obedience: rules a host can execute are enforced at its gates; every line it cannot execute is carried verbatim as a commitment and reported with the hearing.
• /covenant (eighteenth command): verify and apply a covenant; listen to what it admits; report enforcement, withholding, and commitments.
• schemas/covenant.schema.json: the parsed covenant — id, extends lineage (e.g. the Algophonya manifesto), executable rules (do_not_listen · ignore · do_not_reveal · do_not_retain · coarsen · quiet_hours · max_window · require_consent), carried commitments.
• Listening outputs gain an optional covenant block: identity + honest absence — withheld material is counted and attributed to its rule, never described, and never conflated with undetermined.
• Contract: akouo/v0.7 · akouo-contract 0.7.0 · new facets sovereignty, care.

Defaults unchanged everywhere: no covenant is loaded unless the operator adopts one — sovereignty is opted into, never imposed, and a covenant governs the listener that adopted it: it protects the listened-to. Aligned with Earworm v0.4 (spec v1.3), akousmata 0.4, oída 0.4, Algophony 0.5.

AKOÚŌ v0.6.3 — located, directed memory

memory-lineage-listening and /remember now speak akousma spec v1.2: host stores may carry location (where a sound was heard) and capture (past/future direction + window seconds). Both are host metadata evidence — claims that lean on them take source: "metadata", never measured; location is consent-scoped and travels no further than the store the host names. A past capture direction is named as lineage information: the listener chose the sound after hearing it.

Data contract unchanged (akouo/v0.6) — a documentation/distribution release aligned with Earworm v0.3.0, oída 0.3.0, and akousmata 0.3.0.

AKOÚŌ v0.6.1 — The Akousmata Navigator

Documentation subrelease: the v0.6 memory surface now has its reference store implementation — the akousmata listening navigator (github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akousmata), a local-first library app over the shared store (earworm protocol) with filtering, tagging, manual human memories, graph navigation, a wiki layer, and research sessions.

• memory-lineage-listening and /remember run against it.
• Manual human listening events carry listener.type: "human" and the akousmata/v0.1 contract pin — human and agent listenings share one library and one output discipline.

No schema or skill changes; validation green.

AKOÚŌ v0.6 — Instrumented Listening

AKOÚŌ becomes consumable as data, not just prose, and connects to sound-memory stores.

New

• akouo.manifest.json — machine-readable system contract: skills with structured metadata (facets, cost tier, memory policy, corrective eligibility), command chains as data, the Evidence Ladder as data, and command permission overrides. Host apps load this instead of hand-copying tables that drift. Validated by schemas/manifest.schema.json.
• presets/presets.json — thirteen portable listening presets for recurring use-cases (basic, signal, field, music, voice, recall, remember, deep, forensic, access, fiction, generative, extended-spectrum), validated by schemas/preset.schema.json.
• memory-lineage-listening — the fourteenth mode: listening WITH stored sound-memories (earworm-style akousma records) — recurrence, kinship, lineage, change over time — while keeping memory a distinct evidence stream, never proof about the present sound.
• /remember — the memory command: situate a sound in its lineage and register the listening into a store.

Extended

• Listening outputs gain optional akouo_version, apparatus (substrate, perception sources, known blind spots), listener (human/agent/hybrid), and memory (akousma links) blocks.
• Claims gain optional source (audio, dsp, metadata, model, transcript, context, memory, human, other) and time_range anchors — evidence streams never blur, temporal claims stay anchored.
• Routing plans gain optional budget (light/standard/deep) and preset_id; risk always overrides budget.
• Router: substrate awareness with derived claim limits, causal-confidence guidance by listening situation, vococentrism correction, memory-route scoring, preset/budget honoring.
• /forensic suppresses interpreted/speculative claims and /fiction grants declared speculation — now data in the manifest, not just prose.

Breaking

• /one-sound-many-ears comparative outputs: mode_comparison now requires the memory_lineage key.

AKOÚŌ v0.5 — Agentic Routing Consolidation

Backfilled release for the existing v0.5 tag.

• reference-layer as a portable meta-skill for concepts, methodologies, traditions, cautions, and adjacent modes.
• Expanded routing_plan output for /route and /method: evidence level, claim permissions, mode chain, stop conditions, and agent handoff notes.
• Router Evidence Ladder mapping available evidence to permitted claim categories.
• Deeper browser-side signal adapter: BS.1770-style loudness and loudness range, FFT spectral statistics, band energy, onset density, guarded BPM candidates, stereo correlation/width/balance, clipping-ratio estimates.
• Release validation for schema enum alignment, bundled reference schema consistency, generated artifact exclusion, public hygiene, and example structure.
• Hardened first-run path: offline local listening, opt-in benchmark autosave, origin-scoped benchmark keys, localhost-bound dev servers, token-aware router term matching.

AKOÚŌ v0.4

v0.4 expands AKOÚŌ into a portable agentic listening router and local-first reference app.

Highlights:

• Adds four listening modes: audiovisual-scenic, voice-speech, accessibility-normative, and material-event.
• Adds six workflow commands: /voice, /audiovision, /access, /field, /method, and /route.
• Adds routing-plan.schema.json for agent/app handoff.
• Refactors router scoring, listener execution, reference mapping, and app command support.
• Includes the local-first app under app/.

Validation:

• npm run typecheck
• ./scripts/validate-release.sh