composing-with-pytheory

composing-with-pytheory is a plugin for Claude Code from kennethreitz/pytheory. Its manifest loads nothing; the 6 skills it bundles cost 787 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python music-composition add-on that uses PyTheory to create chord progressions, melodies, drum parts, and complete arrangements, then render them as audio or MIDI files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate musical ideas, structured compositions, MIDI files, or rendered audio from programmatic music definitions.
Why use it?
It lets you describe and build music through Python code instead of arranging every note manually in a music editor.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to generate musical ideas, structured compositions, MIDI files, or rendered audio from programmatic music definitions.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add kennethreitz/pytheory
/plugin install composing-with-pytheory
About the project

PyTheory is a Python toolkit for exploring music theory and composing music, with immediate audio playback and visual representations such as guitar tabs and chord diagrams. Musicians and programmers use it to create arrangements across multiple musical systems, instruments, rhythms, and effects. The catalogue add-ons provide agent guidance for working with the project.

kennethreitz/pytheory · 1,657 stars · on GitHub · pytheory.org

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kennethreitz/pytheory

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 6 skills cost 787 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

composing-with-pytheory 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 1mo 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:

plugin/plugins/composing-with-pytheory/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "composing-with-pytheory",
  "displayName": "Composing with PyTheory",
  "description": "Compose music with PyTheory — progressions, melodies, drums, and full arrangements rendered to audio or MIDI from pure Python.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Kenneth Reitz",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://pytheory.org",
  "repository": "https://github.com/kennethreitz/pytheory-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["music", "music-theory", "composition", "midi", "audio", "synthesis", "pytheory"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 6 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 787 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 2507b58ea8c8

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composing-with-pytheory is a plugin published in the GitHub repository kennethreitz/pytheory (1,657 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.