Text To Music

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user describes the music they want in words
• Without a length

Example prompts

• “/text-to-music”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Node.js
• A credential in SONILO_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires Sonilo through either transport — the MCP server connected, or the `sonilo` CLI installed and signed in — plus credentials: a `sonilo login` sign-in, the hosted OAuth plugin, or SONILO_API_KEY. See the setup-api-key skill.
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, mcp__sonilo__*

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Sonilo MCP tools visible in this session (text_to_music and friends) — use them. This is the preferred path: it needs no shell, and it is…
2. 2No usable Sonilo MCP tools, but sonilo account exits 0 — use the CLI commands below. Same API, same account, same credential file. Probe…
3. 3Neither — stop and run the setup-api-key skill. Do not call api.sonilo.com with curl to work around it; both transports handle uploads…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1ce1bd8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Write
  • mcp__sonilo__*

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl
  • pip
  • npm

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • api.sonilo.com

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

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • SONILO_API_KEY

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

• Compatibility

  Requires Sonilo through either transport — the MCP server connected, or the `sonilo` CLI installed and signed in — plus credentials: a `sonilo login` sign-in, the hosted OAuth plugin, or SONILO_API_KEY. See the setup-api-key skill.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Text To Music loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,182 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~90

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.7k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, mcp__sonilo__*

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 sonilo-ai/skills at commit 1ce1bd8, republished under its MIT licence (© sonilo-ai). 1,182 words, ~2,671 tokens.

name

text-to-music

description

Generate music from a text prompt using Sonilo — instrumental tracks, background beds, jingles, loops — when there is no video to score. Use when the user describes the music they want in words, with or without a length. Every track is licensed and cleared for commercial use. For scoring an existing video, use the video-to-music skill instead.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Write, mcp__sonilo__*

compatibility

Requires Sonilo through either transport — the MCP server connected, or the `sonilo` CLI installed and signed in — plus credentials: a `sonilo login` sign-in, the hosted OAuth plugin, or SONILO_API_KEY. See the setup-api-key skill.

license

MIT

text_to_music(
    prompt="A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords",
    duration=30
)

from sonilo import Sonilo

client = Sonilo()  # reads SONILO_API_KEY

track = client.text_to_music.generate(prompt="A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords", duration=30)
track.save("output.mp3")

import { SoniloClient } from "sonilo";

const client = new SoniloClient(); // reads SONILO_API_KEY

const track = await client.textToMusic.generate({
  prompt: "A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords",
  duration: 30,
});

sonilo text-to-music --prompt "A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords" --duration 30

curl -X POST "https://api.sonilo.com/v1/text-to-music" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SONILO_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "prompt=A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords" \
  --data-urlencode "duration=30" \
  --output output.m4a

"stems": [
  {
    "stream_index": 0,
    "drums":  { "url": "…", "content_type": "audio/mp4", "file_size": 2913044 },
    "bass":   { "url": "…", "content_type": "audio/mp4", "file_size": 2870211 },
    "vocals": { "url": "…", "content_type": "audio/mp4", "file_size": 2794560 },
    "other":  { "url": "…", "content_type": "audio/mp4", "file_size": 3011830 }
  }
]

# REST: submit with stems, then poll the task
curl -X POST "https://api.sonilo.com/v1/text-to-music" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SONILO_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "prompt=A chill lo-fi hip hop beat with jazzy piano chords" \
  --data-urlencode "duration=30" \
  --data-urlencode "mode=async" \
  --data-urlencode "stems=true"
# → {"task_id": "…"} — poll GET /v1/tasks/{task_id} for audio + stems

© sonilo-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 text-to-music of sonilo-ai/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1ce1bd8