Music skills for AI agents
11 practitioner-grade music skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.
All 11 skills
- Arrangement
Guides musical arrangement tasks including instrumentation, orchestration, section arrangement, dynamics, transitions, and genre-appropriate techniques for builds and drops. Trigger when users ask about arranging a song, choosing instruments, creating builds or breakdowns, writing horn or string parts, designing transitions between sections, layering textures, or adapting a composition for a specific ensemble, genre, or production style.
225 lines - Composition
Guides music composition tasks including melody writing, harmony construction, chord progressions, song structure, motif development, and genre conventions. Trigger when users ask about writing songs, creating melodies, building chord progressions, structuring arrangements, developing musical ideas, or navigating the creative process from initial concept to finished composition.
163 lines - Film Scoring
Guides film and media scoring tasks including spotting, temp score replacement, emotional arc design, orchestration for picture, sync techniques, and working with directors. Trigger when users ask about composing music for film, TV, trailers, video games, or other visual media, matching music to picture, hitting sync points, orchestrating for dramatic effect, or navigating the collaborative process of scoring with directors and editors.
182 lines - Mastering
Guides audio mastering tasks including loudness standards, limiting, stereo width, frequency balance, format delivery, and mastering chain setup. Trigger when users ask about mastering a track, loudness targets (LUFS/LKFS), preparing music for streaming platforms, limiting and maximizing loudness, final polish processing, or delivering masters in various formats for distribution.
198 lines - Mixing
Guides audio mixing tasks including EQ, compression, reverb, spatial placement, gain staging, bus routing, and genre-specific mixing techniques. Trigger when users ask about mixing a track, balancing levels, processing individual instruments, creating depth and width, fixing muddy or harsh mixes, or establishing a professional mix workflow from rough tracks to final mixdown.
171 lines - Music Business
Guides music business tasks including distribution, royalties, publishing, sync licensing, marketing, playlist pitching, fanbase building, and revenue streams. Trigger when users ask about releasing music, understanding royalties and publishing, getting sync placements, marketing songs or albums, pitching to playlists, growing a fanbase, monetizing music, or navigating the business side of a music career from independent artist to label-signed.
274 lines - Music Theory
Guides applied music theory tasks including scales, modes, chord function, voice leading, rhythm and meter, form analysis, and modulation. Trigger when users ask about understanding scales or modes, building chords, analyzing harmonic progressions, voice leading principles, rhythmic concepts, song form, key changes, or applying theory practically to composition, arrangement, or improvisation rather than purely academic analysis.
229 lines - Podcast Production
Guides podcast production tasks including recording setup, editing workflow, voice processing, show format design, distribution, audience growth, and monetization. Trigger when users ask about starting a podcast, improving audio quality, editing episodes, choosing equipment, designing show structure, publishing and distributing, growing listenership, or generating revenue from podcasts.
257 lines - Songwriting Craft
Professional songwriting guide covering caption/mood description, lyric writing, song structure, BPM/key/duration selection, vocal control, and avoiding common AI-generated lyric pitfalls.
133 lines - Sound Design
Guides sound design tasks including synthesis, sampling, layering, foley, texture creation, SFX, and processing chains. Trigger when users ask about creating sounds from scratch, designing sound effects, synthesizer programming, building audio textures, foley recording, sound design for games or film, or constructing unique timbres through processing and layering techniques.
163 lines - Vocal Production
Guides vocal production tasks including recording techniques, comping, pitch correction, vocal processing chains, doubles and harmonies, ad-libs, and genre-specific vocal treatment. Trigger when users ask about recording vocals, editing vocal takes, tuning vocals, building vocal chains, creating harmonies or doubles, treating vocals for specific genres, or achieving a polished, professional vocal sound in any style from raw to heavily processed.
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