LivePilot

Core discipline for LivePilot — agentic production system for Ableton Live 12. 467 tools across 56 domains. This skill should be used whenever working with Ableton Live through MCP tools. Provides golden rules, tool speed tiers, error handling protocol, and pointers to domain and engine skills.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "evaluate a change", "was that good", "keep or undo", "A/B compare", "rate my change", "check if that helped", or wants to use the universal evaluation loop to judge production moves.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "load a device", "add an effect", "find a plugin", "device chain", "rack", "preset", "sound design setup", "load instrument", "find a synth", or wants to browse, load, and configure devices in Ableton Live.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "sample", "chop", "slice a loop", "find me a sample", "load a sample", "flip this", "resample", "vocal chop", "found sound", "texture from", "turn this into", "break", "one-shot", "load into Simpler", or when get_sample_opportunities finds gaps in the song's sample usage.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "analyze my mix", "find mix issues", "fix masking", "check frequency clashes", "improve dynamics", "check stereo width", "check headroom", or wants critic-driven mix analysis and evaluation. Provides the mix critic loop for iterative mix improvement.

Release checklist for LivePilot — run before ANY push, publish, or "update everything" request. Covers every file, channel, and artifact that references version numbers, tool counts, or project state.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "surprise me", "make it magical", "I'm stuck", "give me options", "take it somewhere", or when stuckness confidence is high. Provides the Wonder Mode stuck-rescue workflow with honest variant labeling and preview-first UX.

Use when the user makes an open-ended creative production request — "make it feel like X", "sound like X", "develop this", "mutate", "more interesting", "less generic", "take it somewhere", structure decisions without exact specs, or any reference/style ask. Also use when route_request returns workflow_mode="creative_search". NOT for exact-parameter setting, quantize/mute ops, verification-only turns, mixing to explicit targets, or performance-safe contexts.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "mix", "balance levels", "set volume", "pan a track", "EQ", "compress", "sends", "routing", "master volume", "gain staging", "sidechain", or wants to perform mixing operations in Ableton Live.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "design a sound", "analyze a patch", "fix a static sound", "add modulation", "check my timbre", "improve a synth patch", or wants critic-driven sound design feedback and iterative patch refinement.

Compositional analysis, transition planning, and translation checking — the diagnostic/analytical side of form. Use when the user wants to "analyze song structure", "improve transitions", "check song flow", "detect motifs", "transform a section", or "score phrase impact". For constructive arrangement work (arrange, build a verse, add an intro, scene-to-arrangement), use livepilot-arrangement instead.

Build a private knowledge corpus from your own Live projects, rack library, Max devices, and plugin presets. Use when the user says "build my corpus", "scan my projects", "index my racks", "make atlas of my library", "private atlas from my files", or wants Claude to know their personal sound (not just Ableton's factory content).

Constructive arrangement — actually building song structure in Ableton. Use when the user asks to "arrange", "structure a song", "add an intro", "build a verse", "create sections", "scene to arrangement", "record to arrangement", or wants to place clips on the timeline or organize scenes. For analysis of existing structure ("improve transitions", "detect motifs", "analyze composition"), use livepilot-composition-engine instead.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write notes", "add a melody", "chord progression", "rhythm pattern", "MIDI notes", "transpose", "quantize", "Euclidean rhythm", "counterpoint", "scale", "key detection", "harmony", or wants to create, edit, or analyze MIDI content in Ableton Live.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "perform live", "what's safe to do during a show", "scene handoff", "energy flow", "performance mode", "safe moves", or wants live performance support with safety constraints.