Sonilo Video-to-SFX

Hand Sonilo a video and it generates sound effects matching what it sees — footsteps, impacts, ambience, UI sounds, whatever the scene calls for — or pin specific sounds to specific moments with segments. Generation runs as an async task on the backend; the tools poll internally and hand back the saved file.

Setup: See the setup-api-key skill.

⚠️ Cost: every tool below makes an API call that may incur charges. Only call it when explicitly requested.

Transport: MCP or CLI

Pick one at the start of the session and stay on it. Do not mix the two inside a single job, and do not announce the choice.

1. Sonilo MCP tools visible in this session (video_to_sfx and friends) — use them. This is the preferred path: it needs no shell, and it is the only one that survives a very long generation. If a call fails to authenticate — rather than failing on its inputs — this transport is not usable in this session: go to 2 instead of retrying it.
2. No usable Sonilo MCP tools, but sonilo account exits 0 — use the CLI commands below. Same API, same account, same credential file. Probe with sonilo account, not sonilo whoami: whoami exits 0 even when signed out, so it cannot tell the two states apart.
3. Neither — stop and run the setup-api-key skill. Do not call api.sonilo.com with curl to work around it; both transports handle uploads, polling and retries that a bare request does not.