What is ableton-mind AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for ableton-mind, an MCP server that lets language models work with Ableton Live’s internal project model. The document describes its planned architecture, project state, and design rules for adding tools.

Use it when planning or implementing ableton-mind, its Ableton Live integrations, tools, knowledge data, or recipes. It helps maintain consistency with the repository’s architecture and scope.

It tells contributors which plans and progress records are authoritative and which decisions must be settled before scaffolding. This reduces the risk of building against outdated assumptions or violating the project’s design invariants.

ableton-mind AGENTS.md — Instructions file for Codex and OpenCode by Pantani: Repository instructions for ableton-mind, an MCP server that l

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/pantani/ableton-mind/agents-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pantani/ableton-mind

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 2,196 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,196 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.02196	$0.02196
Opus 5	$0.01098	$0.01098
Sonnet 5	$0.00439	$0.00439
Haiku 4.5	$0.00220	$0.00220

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5cc3ce635164, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ableton-mind AGENTS.md 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

ableton-mind CLAUDE.md — 98% identical, 8 lines differ

AGENTS.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance to Codex (Codex.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository state

This repo has moved past the original planning-only state. Treat PLAN.md as the scope source of truth, and _workspace/PROGRESS.md as the current implementation state.

Before scaffolding anything, confirm with the user that the open decisions in PLAN.md §13 are resolved (TS vs Python, min Live version, Mac-first vs cross-platform, name, license, etc.). Several were pending input as of the last session.

What ableton-mind is

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes the full Ableton Live Object Model (LOM) to LLMs, modeled on the tdmcp (TouchDesigner) project. The differentiators vs existing work (ahujasid/ableton-mcp at ~10% LOM, ideoforms/AbletonOSC which isn't MCP) are spelled out in PLAN.md §1:

~100% LOM coverage (~180 tools planned across 21 domains — see §4).
Embedded knowledge base — JSON schemas for 50+ native Live 12 devices, scales, grooves, packs, MIDI standards (§5). Goal: LLM never guesses parameter names/ranges.
Recipes — declarative JSON for drum kits, basslines, racks, arrangements by genre (§6). Server expands recipes into tool sequences.
create → verify → preview loop — after each batch, re-read state and diff against intent; optional render/screenshot for the LLM to "see" the result (§7).
Reactive listeners — LOM property changes pushed as MCP notifications (§4.21).

Planned architecture (three layers)

See PLAN.md §3 for the full spec.

Codex/Cursor ──MCP──▶ ableton-mind server (TS/Node) ──TCP JSON-RPC──▶ Remote Script (Python, inside Live)

MCP server (src/): TypeScript + Node 20+, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, Zod validation. Holds tools, recipes, knowledge base. Routes calls to the bridge.
Bridge (live/AbletonMind/): Python Remote Script loaded by Live (Python 3.11 on Live 12, 3.7 on Live 10/11). Hosts a local TCP server (default :9876) speaking JSON-RPC 2.0. Dispatches to LiveAPI; pushes listener events as JSON-RPC notifications.
Knowledge/recipes (src/knowledge/, recipes/): static JSON shipped with the package.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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.

3d ago First seen · 109 lines · 2,196 tokens per session scan A 5cc3ce635164

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ableton-mind AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Pantani/ableton-mind (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,196 tokens to every session, about $0.0110 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 2026-08-31.

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ableton-mind AGENTS.md

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

Copies of this mod

How it starts

AGENTS.md

Repository state

What ableton-mind is

Planned architecture (three layers)

What this file has done since we first saw it

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