Agent skill

Ableton AI

by autonomous-ai in autonomous-ai/openharness

Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration.

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Install Ableton AI

skills CLI
$ npx skills add autonomous-ai/openharness --skill ableton-ai -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install autonomous-ai/openharness ableton-ai --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autonomous-ai/openharness.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/store/agents/ableton-ai/skills/ableton-ai .claude/skills/ableton-ai && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ableton-ai
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~502 tokens
SKILL.md length
256 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
99
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration.

  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ableton AI is an agent skill from autonomous-ai/openharness. Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration.

Its SKILL.md is about 500 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: The ultimate harness for coding agents and beyond. All your agents. All your machines. One command center. Start with code, then follow your curiosity and build across… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/ableton-ai”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 74c2733. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ableton AI loads about 502 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 36 tokens; SKILL.md has 256 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~36
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~502

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from autonomous-ai/openharness at commit 74c2733, republished under its MIT licence (© autonomous-ai). 256 words, ~502 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ableton-ai/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ableton-ai
description
Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration.

Loop room

Read studio.json to understand the current controls; "$STUDIO_TOOLCHAIN/../studio.config.json" describes their ranges. Run "$STUDIO_TOOLCHAIN/run.sh" render to make a new result. Successful artifacts and their measurements are in out/runs/<id>/; out/latest.json names the current result. A failed run preserves the last success and records the error in the verdict.

The starter is a local synthesized MIDI sequencer. It writes a standard MIDI file and WAV preview without Ableton. The optional Live action reads a running Ableton AI bridge; it does not overwrite tracks or start transport.

Use "$STUDIO_TOOLCHAIN/../README.md" for the integration contract and commands. Read the relevant files under $STUDIO_UPSTREAM before using an upstream API. Keep controls within their documented ranges, preserve the data needed to reproduce a comparison, and distinguish preview results from native service or hardware output. The viewer supports history and artifact downloads; tell the user which run contains the result, and what was actually measured.

Make a loop that can leave the viewer

Choose a scale, tempo, density, and swing. Audition the step grid, keep a run, and verify notes.json, loop.mid, and loop.wav. A nonempty sixteen-character pattern mask overrides density; clear it to regenerate a seeded rhythm. The browser and exporter share a tested pattern algorithm, so note pitches, velocity, and timing remain reproducible.

Read $STUDIO_UPSTREAM/skills/ableton/SKILL.md for real Live composition and its documented track/device/clip operations. The wrapper's live action is a read-only session snapshot; it does not import the MIDI, change a set, or start transport. Enable the pinned upstream control surface before using its native tools, and preserve the user's current session.

© autonomous-ai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in store/agents/ableton-ai/skills/ableton-ai of autonomous-ai/openharness.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 74c2733

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Node Inspect Debuggeropenclaw/openclaw392k1 repos~894Automated safety check: PassMIT
Venice Audio Musicnexu-io/open-design100k—~297Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
AI Music Albumnexu-io/open-design100k—~328Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Ableton AI

What does Ableton AI do?

Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration. Ableton AI is an agent skill from autonomous-ai/openharness. Create and inspect music projects in the Ableton AI Harness workspace, including its local starter and optional upstream integration.

How do I install Ableton AI in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add autonomous-ai/openharness --skill ableton-ai -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (store/agents/ableton-ai/skills/ableton-ai in autonomous-ai/openharness) into .claude/skills/ableton-ai in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ableton AI in Codex?

Run `npx skills add autonomous-ai/openharness --skill ableton-ai -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (store/agents/ableton-ai/skills/ableton-ai in autonomous-ai/openharness) into .agents/skills/ableton-ai in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ableton AI in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add autonomous-ai/openharness --skill ableton-ai -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ableton-ai, .gemini/skills/ableton-ai, .github/skills/ableton-ai and .opencode/skills/ableton-ai in your project.

What does Ableton AI need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ableton AI is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ableton AI access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ableton AI safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ableton AI use?

Ableton AI is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ableton AI use?

About 502 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ableton AI?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ableton AI: Music to Video (heygen-com/hyperframes, 59k stars), MiniMax Music Generation (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Node Inspect Debugger (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars) and Venice Audio Music (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ableton AI?

autonomous-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in autonomous-ai/openharness, which has 1,194 GitHub stars. The repository holds 99 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: autonomous-ai/openharness on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.