reference-match

reference-match is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from glincker/ableton-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A music-production workflow that turns an artist or track reference into practical choices about arrangement, sounds, effects, and mixing. It uses known sonic characteristics and does not download or analyse copyrighted audio.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan production changes based on a named artist or track, such as instrumentation, tempo, harmony, texture, stereo width, effects, and vocal treatment.
Why use it?
It makes a vague request to capture a reference's vibe more specific and actionable without copying or processing the original recording.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,080 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 $0.00065 $0.01080
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00108

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1c0d60921bef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reference-match 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.

skills/reference-match/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reference Match

Translate a reference track or artist into concrete production choices. We do not download or analyze copyrighted audio. We use known sonic signatures and the user's own ears.

Workflow

1. Identify the reference

Ask if not given: "Which track or artist? And which aspect — the arrangement, the mix, the sound design, or the overall vibe?"

2. Pull the sonic signature from common knowledge

Map the reference to its known characteristics. Examples:

Reference Signature
Ólafur Arnalds Felt piano, string ensemble (often Spitfire), tape saturation, slow tempo (60-80), minor key, sparse arrangement, long reverb tails, microphone proximity sound
Tame Impala (Currents-era) LinnDrum patterns, OP-1 synths, heavy chorus on guitar, vocoded vocals, sidechained bass, 60-90 BPM, vintage drum saturation
Bonobo Live percussion + electronic drums, jazz harmony, vinyl crackle textures, mid-tempo (90-110), wide stereo, heavy use of sample chops
Burial Vinyl/cassette texture, rain/atmosphere, pitched-up vocal samples, sub bass, garage-2step rhythm, lo-fi hihats, minor 7 chords
Kendrick (DAMN era) 808 sub, trap hi-hats, jazz samples, vocal layering, heavy compression, mid-side EQ for vocal width
Billie Eilish (early) Whisper vocal up close, sparse 808, finger snaps, sub-heavy mix, heavy automation, breath sounds intentionally left in
Skrillex Heavy modulation on bass (vocal-formant LFOs), drops with stutter edits, 14k+ shimmer on leads, super-wide stereo, side-chained pump
Hans Zimmer Massive low brass (often layered with synth), Trinity choir (low + bright), pulsing ostinatos, slow chord swells, 1-second+ reverb tails
Lo-fi hip hop (Lofigirl-style) Wurlitzer/Rhodes, jazz chords, vinyl crackle, tape saturation, 70-90 BPM, 50% wet drums, swung 16ths

3. Translate to action

For each aspect the user cares about, propose moves:

Arrangement
  • Match section structure (Bonobo = long intros; Skrillex = constant motion)
  • Match density (Billie = sparse, Skrillex = dense)

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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 · 75 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 1c0d60921bef

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reference-match is a skill published in the GitHub repository glincker/ableton-skills (22 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,080 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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