ACE-Step Music Generation

ACE-Step Music Generation is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by digitalsamba in claude-code-video-toolkit.

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Install ACE-Step Music Generation

Copy ACE-Step Music Generation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit/tree/main/.claude/skills/acestep ~/.claude/skills/acestep

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/acestep/SKILL.md in digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/acestep
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What ACE-Step Music Generation does

ACE-Step Music Generation creates background music, vocal tracks, covers, and stems using the ACE-Step 1.5 model. Use it to produce soundtracks, jingles, or audio edits for video projects.

ACE-Step Music Generation is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. ACE-Step Music Generation comes from a repository tagged ai-video-generator, claude-code, developer-tools, elevenlabs and open-source.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

ACE-Step 1.5 Music Generation

Open-source music generation via tools/music_gen.py.

Cloud providers:

acemusic (default) — Official ACE-Step cloud API with XL Turbo (4B) model + 5Hz LM thinking mode. Free API key from acemusic.ai/api-key. No GPU required.
modal — Self-hosted ACE-Step 2B Turbo on Modal. Requires MODAL_MUSIC_GEN_ENDPOINT_URL.
runpod — Self-hosted ACE-Step 2B Turbo on RunPod. Requires RUNPOD_ACESTEP_ENDPOINT_ID.

Setup

# acemusic (recommended — free, best quality, no GPU)
echo "ACEMUSIC_API_KEY=your_key" >> .env
# Get key at https://acemusic.ai/api-key

# Self-hosted (optional fallback)
python tools/music_gen.py --setup             # RunPod
modal deploy docker/modal-music-gen/app.py    # Modal

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about ACE-Step Music Generation

What else does digitalsamba publish alongside ACE-Step Music Generation?
ACE-Step Music Generation is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ElevenLabs Audio, FFmpeg and Frontend Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way ACE-Step Music Generation does, and is maintained by digitalsamba in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit page.
How does ACE-Step Music Generation compare to other AI Engineering skills?
ACE-Step Music Generation ranks #888 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of ACE-Step Music Generation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.