ableton-songwriter

ableton-songwriter is a skill for Codex from zabolotniydj/ableton-mcp-fixed. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,931 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ableton-songwriter, MIT.

A guided songwriting and music-production workflow for Ableton Live, the digital audio workstation used to make and arrange music.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, compose, arrange, rewrite, or quickly polish a song in Ableton.
Why use it?
It turns a broad song idea into a clear production plan and an editable first draft without treating the first version as a finished master.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to start, compose, arrange, rewrite, or quickly polish a song in Ableton.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zabolotniydj/ableton-mcp-fixed/ableton-songwriter
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 zabolotniydj/ableton-mcp-fixed --skill ableton-songwriter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zabolotniydj/ableton-mcp-fixed

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,931 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01931
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00193

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7c79e7f44ae0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ableton-songwriter 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 12d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to ableton-songwriter — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ableton-songwriter/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ableton Songwriter

Objective

Convert an open-ended songwriting request into a playable, editable Ableton draft with:

  • coherent song form,
  • intentional section contrast,
  • viable instrumentation choices,
  • and a minimal but professional gain/mix baseline.

This skill optimizes for production momentum and clean revision cycles, not final mastering.

Use This Skill When

  • The user asks to compose, arrange, rewrite, or “start a song” in Ableton.
  • The user gives broad direction and expects structured clarification.
  • The user wants a practical draft with a fast polish pass.

Do Not Use This Skill When

  • The task is purely technical/debugging (no songwriting intent).
  • The user only asks for a single isolated operation (for example, “rename track 3”).
  • The user explicitly asks for free-form brainstorming with no DAW execution.

Operating Standards

  • Keep decisions explicit and traceable in a compact production brief.
  • Resolve high-impact unknowns first; avoid over-questioning.
  • Protect user project state (never destructive by default).
  • Prefer repeatable arrangement patterns over novelty for first drafts.
  • Keep the first pass modular so sections can be swapped or extended quickly.

Workflow

  1. Parse request and extract fixed constraints.
  2. Run targeted intake for missing high-impact decisions.
  3. Emit production brief and proceed unless user asks to review first.
  4. Build section foundations (rhythm, harmony, hook) in Session or Arrangement.
  5. Arrange into form with section contrast and transitions.
  6. Apply quick mix baseline and playback-ready positioning.
  7. Return structured handoff with revision options.

Intake Protocol

  • Use MCQ format with 1. 2. 3. numbering when clarification is needed.
  • Ask exactly 3 questions first; ask at most 2 follow-ups.
  • Skip any item already answered by user constraints.
  • If user asks for speed, ask only:
    • genre family,
    • energy target,
    • section length target.
  • Use intake-mcq.md for full option bank.
  • If structured input tooling is available, use it; otherwise ask plain-text MCQ.
  • Always include one safe default option.

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 221 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7c79e7f44ae0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ableton-songwriter is a skill published in the GitHub repository zabolotniydj/ableton-mcp-fixed (0 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,931 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ableton-songwriter, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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