Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @dumoedss/acestep-songwriting
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install acestep-songwriting
What This Skill Does
A songwriting guide for ACE-Step music generation. Covers how to write captions, structure lyrics with tags, and choose parameters like BPM, key, and duration. Designed to be used before generating music with the ACE-Step tool.
Rather than trial-and-error prompting, it gives concrete rules for syllable counts, tag combinations, and conflict avoidance that directly improve ACE-Step output on the first attempt.
When to use it
- Writing a detailed caption for a lo-fi hip-hop track
- Structuring verse/chorus/bridge lyrics with ACE-Step tags
- Calculating song duration from planned sections
- Choosing BPM and key to match a specific genre
- Avoiding vague or AI-sounding lyric patterns
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: write me a melancholic synthwave song about late-night driving
AGENT
- 1Read the songwriting guide
- 2Write a caption specifying style, emotion, instruments, and vocal type
- 3Draft lyrics with [Intro], [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge], [Outro] tags and energy hints
- 4Set BPM to 110, key to Am, duration to 210s based on structure
- 5Pass caption, lyrics, and parameters to the ACE-Step skill
OUTPUT
A ready-to-generate caption, full structured lyrics, and parameter set for ACE-Step