ableton-init

ableton-init is a command for coding agents from glincker/ableton-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that creates a standard Ableton Live music-project setup, including return tracks, a master-bus chain, tempo and time signature, and eight labeled, color-coded tracks. Ableton Live is software for recording, composing, and mixing music.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new Ableton project with drums, bass, chords, lead, vocals, and other prepared recording or composing tracks; tempo and time signature can be supplied when running it.
Why use it?
It removes the repeated setup work at the start of a project and applies the same track, routing, and labeling conventions each time.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/glincker/ableton-skills/ableton-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glincker/ableton-skills

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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9489848d229d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ableton-init 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 5d 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.

commands/ableton-init.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ableton-init

Sets up a clean, production-ready Ableton session structure. Run this once per new project before recording or composing.

What it creates

Return tracks (3)

Return Device chain Color Send level
A — Verb Reverb (Hall preset, decay 2.5s) Grey 0 dB unity
B — Delay Ping Pong Delay (1/8 dotted, feedback 35%) Grey -6 dB
C — Parallel Glue Compressor (4:1, fast attack, auto release) Grey -∞ (manual)

Master bus chain

  • EQ Eight (HPF at 30 Hz to remove sub-rumble)
  • Glue Compressor (2:1, slow attack, 1-2 dB GR target — bypass by default, on for mixdown)
  • Limiter (-1 dB ceiling — bypass by default, on for export)

Tempo + time signature

  • Default 120 BPM, 4/4 (user can override at invocation: /ableton-init 95 4/4)

Empty track palette (8 tracks, color-coded, unarmed)

# Type Name Color Purpose
1 MIDI Drums Orange Drum rack / kit
2 MIDI Bass Yellow Sub / 808 / bass guitar via Tension
3 MIDI Chords Green Pad, keys, harmonic bed
4 MIDI Lead Purple Melody, lead line
5 Audio Vocals Pink Recording slot
6 Audio Sample Blue Loops, foley, samples
7 MIDI Aux 1 Light blue Spare for whatever
8 MIDI Aux 2 Light blue Spare

Workflow

  1. Verify session is empty (or close to empty). If not, ask: "Session has N tracks already — proceed and add returns + master chain only, or stop?"
  2. Set tempo and time signature.
  3. Create return tracks with device chains and presets.
  4. Insert master bus chain.
  5. Create the 8-track palette. Set colors and names. Don't load instruments — that's the user's choice per project.
  6. Send all tracks to Return A at -∞ (no auto-send), let the user dial in per track.
  7. Save preferences in a .ams file (Ableton template) if user wants this as a default.
  8. Report back: "Project initialized at 120 BPM. 8 tracks, 3 return tracks, master chain installed (compressor + limiter bypassed). Ready to compose."

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 5d ago First seen · 69 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9489848d229d

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ableton-init is a command published in the GitHub repository glincker/ableton-skills (22 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 807 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.