ableton-live (alias: loophole)

A thin developer-experience layer for the Loophole Bridge, the MCP server that controls Ableton Live 12 over the official Extensions SDK. This skill closes the loop between "the bridge is installed" and "the agent uses it well." It does three things and nothing more.

It never talks to Live directly. It does not embed tool logic, re-implement the bridge, or import any bridge or SDK code. The bridge is the only thing that touches the Live Object Model. Every Live operation in this skill is a call to one of the bridge's MCP tools.

What this skill does

1. /doctor runs five prerequisite checks (Live running, extension installed, Node version, bridge port reachable, token present) and prints a PASS or a specific FIX line for each, then one verdict. See doctor.md. It never auto-runs /setup.
2. /setup reads the port and bearer token the extension wrote to bridge.json, then emits the correct MCP client config for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor. It never invents a port or token. See setup.md.
3. Recipes are reusable snippets for common Live edits, each a named sequence of real bridge tool calls. See recipes/: humanize-midi, build-arrangement, batch-rename, chord-from-prompt.

How the pieces connect