mcp-musescore

mcp-musescore is a skill for Codex from ghchen99/mcp-musescore. It costs 40 tokens per session (927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connector for inspecting, navigating, composing, and editing music scores in MuseScore through an MCP server, a tool interface that lets an agent call external software. It uses the documented tools and checks the required MuseScore connection details first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work with open MuseScore scores, including reading, moving through, composing, editing, and analysing notation.
Why use it?
It prevents incorrect tool calls and avoids treating development or inspection commands as if they were score-editing commands.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to work with open MuseScore scores, including reading, moving through, composing, editing, and analysing notation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ghchen99/mcp-musescore/mcp-musescore
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ghchen99/mcp-musescore --skill mcp-musescore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ghchen99/mcp-musescore

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00927
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured 3d ago against content hash 02d2352cf521, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-musescore 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/check-mcp-musescore.ps1, scripts/check-mcp-musescore.sh, scripts/probe-musescore-bridge.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/mcp-musescore/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MuseScore MCP

Use this skill when a user asks to inspect, compose, edit, navigate, or analyze a score in MuseScore through the configured mcp-musescore server.

Read the right detail

  • Read references/tools.md before choosing a tool or constructing a batch sequence. It is the source of truth for the 26 public MCP tools, parameters, defaults, and upstream README discrepancies.
  • Read references/architecture.md when diagnosing connection, plugin, port, response-envelope, or MuseScore-version problems.
  • Read references/client-configuration.md when a client needs a stdio configuration.
  • Read references/runtime.md when installing, selecting a Python runtime, or using the repository's CLI helpers.

Routing rule

Prefer a purpose-built CLI command when it is actually available in the current environment for the requested operation. If no such CLI command is available, use the public MCP tools documented in references/tools.md. Never invent a MuseScore CLI command. The repository's mcp dev command is an MCP inspector/development helper; it is not a replacement for the live MuseScore editing tools.

Preconditions and startup

  • MuseScore Studio must be open with a score loaded.
  • The musescore-mcp-websocket.qml plugin must be enabled and running from MuseScore's Plugins menu.
  • The plugin must listen on ws://localhost:8765.
  • The MCP client must launch the repository's server.py over stdio. Use scripts/start-mcp-musescore.sh or scripts/start-mcp-musescore.ps1 for a manual launch; set MCP_MUSESCORE_DIR when the repository is not in ~/Downloads/mcp-musescore.
  • Run scripts/check-mcp-musescore.sh or its PowerShell equivalent when a deterministic bridge probe is needed.

If a tool reports Not connected to MuseScore, do not retry mutations blindly: start or reload the MuseScore plugin, call ping_musescore, and only then continue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 3d ago First seen · 60 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 02d2352cf521

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mcp-musescore is a skill published in the GitHub repository ghchen99/mcp-musescore (86 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 927 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 2026-09-05.

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