# ElevenLabs Music — model skill for AI music

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Compose songs, instrumentals, jingles and background tracks from a prompt or a section-by-section plan.

- **Type:** [Model](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [AI music](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/ai-music.md)
- **Slug:** `elevenlabs-music`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** ElevenLabs (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/tree/main/music
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** ElevenLabs API key (ELEVENLABS_API_KEY)
- **Cost:** Billed in ElevenLabs credits
- **Adoption:** 11,000 installs, 510 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Generates music with the ElevenLabs Music API (`music_v2_5`): prompt-based tracks, songs with lyrics, jingles and background beds. Composition plans give section-level control, and the skill also covers music fine-tunes, video-to-music, editing chunks in place, inpainting and streaming.

## Use when

- A background track or jingle for a video
- A song with lyrics
- Music that follows a video's cut

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill music -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill music -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill music -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill music -a gemini-cli`
- OpenClaw: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill music -a openclaw`

**Models it drives:** eleven_music_v2_5

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/elevenlabs-music.mp3 — 'Eleven Outta Ten' — the Eleven Music sample on ElevenLabs' Music docs page; 8-23 s (credit: ElevenLabs, https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/music)

## Used for

- [Voiceover and music for a video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/voiceover-music.md): A professional voiceover and a fitting music bed added to your video or screen recording.

## More AI music skills

- [AI Music Generation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-music-generation.md): Generate songs and instrumentals with ElevenLabs Music, DiffRhythm or Tencent Song Generation.
- [ElevenLabs Music (inference.sh)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-music.md): Compose royalty-free tracks up to 10 minutes from a text prompt with ElevenLabs Music, via inference.sh.

## Run the generation on varg

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt