AKOÚŌ sovereignty ear. Use this skill whenever a listening must happen under an explicit listening covenant: a small, human-written declaration of sonic sovereignty that says 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. Use it when a person, a household, a community, a habitat, an institution, or another agent has rules about being heard: consented field recording under a community protocol, domestic listening that must never retain voices, monitoring a habitat "and not one decibel more", archives with ancestral or place-bound sound, interviews where identity must stay…
