music-mix

music-mix is a skill for Claude Code from novoads/agent-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for producing a hand-sculpted clay stop-motion advertisement through the Novoads web service. It builds five to eight rendered scenes, adds narration, music, captions, and assembles the result with ffmpeg, a video-processing tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make 40-to-70-second clay product ads with a named protagonist, storyteller voice-over, music, and captions.
Why use it?
It defines both the clay visual style and a longer story arc so the advertisement has a character-led narrative.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together , and of skills

Good fit Use it to make 40-to-70-second clay product ads with a named protagonist, storyteller voice-over, music, and captions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novoads/agent-skills/music-mix
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.

Any agent
npx skills add novoads/agent-skills --skill music-mix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novoads/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,196 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 $0.00127 $0.02196
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01098
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00220

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3dfc32cbcb27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

music-mix 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/music_mix.py, scripts/test_music_mix.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.

shared/skills/music-mix/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Music mix

Puts a music bed under a finished video. The bed is trimmed to the video's exact duration, faded out at the tail, and ducked under the voice. This is the last step of the pack: base video → b-roll overlay → burned captions → music.

Mixing mechanics live entirely in scripts/music_mix.py. This file is judgment only — when to enter, what track to pick, where the music comes from, what the user sees.

Entry condition

A finished video the user has signed off on. Captions already burned in is the preferred input, because music is genuinely the last thing that happens. That is safe because the script copies the video stream packet for packet (-c:v copy) and verifies afterwards that the output's video packets hash identical to the input's — so burned captions come through bit-exact, not "re-encoded but probably fine".

If the cut is still moving, wait. Remixing is cheap; re-rendering the pipeline is not.

Track judgment

  • Match the genre to the ad's mood, not to your taste. Calm skincare and a punchy supplement ad do not want the same bed. Read the script's tone first.
  • Lofi is the default — it is what the reference edit used, and it sits under a talking head without competing with it. Depart from it deliberately, and say why.
  • Always produce 2–3 named variants. The reference edit shipped a final-mixes folder with lofi-jazzy and lofi-warm of the same cut. Vary the track or --music-gain, name them for what they are, and let the user pick — each extra mix is one ffmpeg pass and no credits.
  • Instrumental only. Lyrics compete with the voiceover for the same attention.

Sourcing the music

REST key required. A Novoads MCP connector is not a substitute. If NOVOADS_API_KEY is missing or still the placeholder, stop before any generation work and tell the user: "Before continuing, create an API key at https://novoads.ai/dashboard/settings?tab=api and paste it into .env." That holds even when mcp__novoads__* tools are connected and authenticated in the session. Never call mcp__novoads__* tools from this repo's workflows: they are a different surface with different behavior, including the units they quote costs in. Repo installs verify with ./scripts/check-novoads-env.sh; a solo install checks NOVOADS_API_KEY in the environment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 149 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 3dfc32cbcb27

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music-mix is a skill published in the GitHub repository novoads/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,196 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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