music-generate

Music Generate

Turns a creative brief into a real, playable track through the user's own Cognitum Music account.

When to use

The user asks to create/generate/produce a song, remix, or track. If mcp__cogmusic__create_production isn't loaded, run music-connect first.

Steps

1. Compose the two required inputs from the brief (delegate the actual writing to the music-composer agent for anything beyond a trivial brief — lyrics quality matters more than most callers expect):

   • lyrics — structured with [intro]/[verse]/[chorus]/[bridge]/[outro] tags, one section per line group. Match the language the user asked for; don't default to English if they named another language.
   • prompt — genre, BPM, instrumentation, and mood in one dense sentence. Be specific (e.g. "Afrobeat, 116 BPM, talking drum, shekere, horn section" beats "upbeat African music").

2. Pick audio_duration (seconds, default 30 if unspecified). 90–150s covers a real verse/chorus/bridge structure; don't go far past 150s without the user asking — generation time and cost both scale with duration, and the model's documented ceiling is 300s.

3. Call the tool — it blocks for real minutes, not seconds:

   mcp__cogmusic__create_production({
     title: "...",
     lyrics: "...",
     prompt: "...",
     audio_duration: 120,
   })
   

   Do not poll or retry mid-call — the underlying bridge (cogmusic@0.1.1+) already carries a long internal timeout. If it returns {"content":[{"text":"generation failed", ...}],"isError":true}, this is very likely a transient GPU-inference-service issue (see ADR-0001's Known reliability notes), not a bad prompt — retry once before concluding something is actually wrong with the request itself.

4. On success, the result includes id, title, audio_duration, created_at_unix, and an audio_url. Fetch the audio itself (or hand the URL to the user) with:

   curl -H "authorization: Bearer $COGMUSIC_TOKEN" "$AUDIO_URL" -o track.wav
   

   Audio is never returned inline over MCP by design (see ADR-0001) — always a separate authenticated GET.

5. Cache the result for later recall (namespace music-productions, see the plugin README's Namespace coordination section):

   mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_store({
     key: "production-<id>",
     value: JSON.stringify({ id, title, audio_url, prompt, lyrics, audio_duration, created_at_unix }),
     namespace: "music-productions",
   })
   

   Also store the brief that produced it (namespace music-briefs) so a later "make another one like that" can retrieve the exact prompt/lyrics shape that worked:

   mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_store({
     key: "brief-<id>",
     value: JSON.stringify({ id, brief: "<the user's original request>", prompt, lyrics }),
     namespace: "music-briefs",
   })
   

6. Report back: title, duration, the audio_url, and a one-line summary of the style. Don't claim the audio "sounds like X" — you cannot hear it; describe what was requested, not the result.

Known reliability notes

The GPU inference service behind Cognitum Music has a real, documented history of intermittent generation failures (cold-start weight-loading races — see the upstream repo's ADR-0022/0023). A single retry resolves most transient failures. If two consecutive attempts with the same prompt/lyrics both fail, say so plainly rather than silently retrying a third time — that's a signal something's actually wrong on the service side, not bad luck.