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Video & Media

SongHarbor

Generate full songs with vocals or instrumentals on your own GPU with ACE-Step 1.5: text to music, covers, section repaints, stems and platform-ready exports, driven by your agent.

  • Included with SkillGild Pro
  • Runs in your agent, private tools on SkillGild
  • v1.0.0
  • SkillGild
skillgild install song-harbor
Works with
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
and any MCP client

License: MIT · Created by SkillGild

Pro

What you get

  • Full songs from a text prompt, sung from your lyrics or instrumental, generated on your own GPU with ACE-Step 1.5, an open-source AI music model
  • Covers and style transfer from reference audio you own
  • Repaint: regenerate one section of a song and keep the rest
  • Stem extraction, a new instrument layer over existing audio and continuation of a clip (with the base model)
  • 28 genre caption recipes with tempo and key suggestions, plus prompt and lyric-structure guides
  • One-command exports for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, podcasts, CD and the web at the right loudness
  • Every prompt, seed and setting kept with the song, so you can revise it later

Is it a good fit?

Good for

  • Creators who want an AI song generator without per-song cloud fees or uploading their lyrics
  • Songwriters making demo vocals and arrangement ideas
  • Video and podcast makers who need original background music in a specific genre

Not for

  • Computers without a GPU that ACE-Step supports
  • Imitating a real singer's voice or recreating copyrighted songs

Requirements

  • A coding agent that can run commands: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI
  • ACE-Step 1.5 installed locally with its model weights
  • A GPU that ACE-Step supports
  • Python 3.10 or later, uv, and ffmpeg for exports

Install the SongHarbor skill

Pick your agent. The wrapper only tells your agent how to start a session. The skill's instructions arrive with each session, after your access is checked.

  1. Sign in once from your terminal.

    Terminal
    skillgild login
  2. Install this skill for Claude Code.

    Terminal
    skillgild install song-harbor --agent claude-code
  3. Register the SkillGild MCP server with Claude Code.

    Terminal
    claude mcp add --scope user skillgild -- $(command -v skillgild) mcp

How it runs

  1. Your agent starts a session. SkillGild checks your access and allowance, counts one run, and sends the skill's instructions for this task.
  2. Your agent does the work with its own model and tools, in your project. SkillGild makes no AI model call.

Use it from code

Start a session, follow its guide, then end it. Create an API key under Account and pass it as a bearer token.

Terminal
# Prints the session ID, its tools and the instructions for your agent
skillgild session song-harbor
skillgild end <session-id>

Questions

How do I install the SongHarbor skill in Claude Code?

Install the SkillGild CLI, sign in with skillgild login and register its MCP server with Claude Code, then run skillgild install song-harbor --agent claude-code. Use --agent codex, cursor or gemini-cli for other clients. The install puts SongHarbor's engine in your skills folder, and SkillGild delivers the instructions at the start of each session.

Is SongHarbor a local AI music generator?

Yes. SongHarbor drives ACE-Step 1.5 on your own machine, so your prompts, lyrics and songs stay with you and there is no per-song fee. SkillGild delivers the skill's instructions; the music is generated on your GPU.

What can it do besides generating songs?

Covers from reference audio you own, repainting one section, extracting stems, adding an instrument layer, continuing a clip, analysing audio and exporting at platform loudness targets such as -14 LUFS for streaming.

Do I need to install ACE-Step myself?

Yes. SongHarbor does not bundle the model. Install ACE-Step 1.5 and its weights, then point SongHarbor at the folder; its doctor command checks the setup before your first song.

Is SongHarbor included in SkillGild Pro?

Yes. SkillGild Pro includes SongHarbor with up to 25 runs a month, alongside SkillGild's other Pro skills.

Related guides

Setup steps and worked examples for this kind of skill.