chord-pro

chord-pro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from glincker/ableton-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A chord-writing and voicing workflow for creating or refining chord progressions for a chosen key, mood, genre, and instrument. Voicing means deciding which notes each chord contains and where they sit for the instrument.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate progressions, extend them with richer notes, and arrange their notes for piano or other target instruments.
Why use it?
It helps turn a musical mood into chords that fit together and can be played naturally, instead of producing unrelated note combinations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to generate progressions, extend them with richer notes, and arrange their notes for piano or other target instruments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glincker/ableton-skills/chord-pro
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add glincker/ableton-skills --skill chord-pro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glincker/ableton-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,122 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.
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 $0.00059 $0.01122
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3baa1e533d99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chord-pro 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 11d 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.

skills/chord-pro/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chord Pro

Generate or refine chord progressions with proper voicing. Music-theory grounded — no random Reddit-tier chord stacks.

Workflow

1. Ask if needed

Required: key + mode, mood/genre, target instrument. Optional: length (default 4 chords), tempo (for rhythmic feel).

If two are missing, ask in one sentence:

"What key and what mood?"

2. Choose progression by genre/mood

Mood/Genre Reliable progressions (in C / Cm)
Sad / cinematic Cm – Ab – Eb – Bb (i-VI-III-VII), or Cm – Gm/Bb – Ab – Eb
Hopeful / pop C – G – Am – F (I-V-vi-IV), or C – Am – F – G
Tension Cm – F – Cm – G7 (i-iv-i-V), or Cm – Bb – Ab – G
Neo-soul / R&B Cmaj7 – Em7 – Am7 – Dm7 (I7-iii7-vi7-ii7), or use modal interchange
Lo-fi / chill Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – Bb7 – Eb7 (mixolydian feel), or use ii-V-I in jazz extensions
Cinematic build Cm – Ab – Fm – G (Aeolian + V)
EDM uplifting Am – F – C – G (vi-IV-I-V — the "Axis")
Modal/dorian Cm – F – Gm – Cm (i-IV-v-i in dorian)

3. Voice properly

For each chord, place voices according to instrument:

Piano (most common)
  • LH: Root + 5th (or root + octave) below middle C
  • RH: 3rd + 7th (or 3rd + 5th + 9th for color) above middle C
  • No closed-position triads in the same octave as the bass
String ensemble
  • Cello: root (one octave below middle C)
  • Viola: 5th (or 3rd in inversion)
  • Vln 2: 3rd or 7th (depending on chord quality)
  • Vln 1: highest color tone (9, 11, 13)
  • Respect ranges: Vln1 G3-G6, Vln2 G3-D6, Vla C3-A5, Cello C2-C5
Guitar
  • Use idiomatic guitar voicings, not piano-translated chords
  • Open chords for folk/indie
  • Drop-2 voicings for jazz
  • Power chords (root + 5th) for rock
Pad / synth
  • Spread across 2 octaves
  • Can use closed voicing in upper register for warmth
  • Avoid the muddy zone (root in same octave as bass synth)

4. Add color (optional)

If user wants "more color":

  • Add 9ths to major chords (Cmaj9 instead of C)
  • Add 11ths to suspended chords
  • Use 7ths consistently in jazz/neo-soul
  • Add altered tones (b9, #11) on V chords for tension

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 11d ago First seen · 99 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 3baa1e533d99

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chord-pro is a skill published in the GitHub repository glincker/ableton-skills (25 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,122 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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