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Ableton Debug — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Diagnose connection or behavior issues with the Ableton MCP server.

How to install Ableton Debug

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/glincker-ableton-skills-ableton-debug/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/glincker-ableton-skills-ableton-debug && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glincker/ableton-skills/HEAD/commands/ableton-debug.md -o ~/.claude/skills/glincker-ableton-skills-ableton-debug/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Ableton Debug does

name: ableton-debug description: Diagnose connection or behavior issues with the Ableton MCP server. Use when tools aren't responding, AbletonMCP doesn't show up in Live's preferences, or commands hang.

/ableton-debug

Walk through a structured diagnostic when something's broken between Claude/Cursor and Ableton.

Workflow

1. Check MCP server reachability

Try get_session_info (lightweight read-only call)
If it times out → MCP server isn't running or socket is dead
If

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