Suno Songsmith

A Claude skill that turns a song or album idea into release-ready Suno material: a precise Style prompt, fully structured lyrics with metatags, a title, and an iteration plan to refine it.

It works in Claude.ai (Settings → Capabilities → upload the .skill file) and in Claude Code (drop it in your .claude/skills/ directory). Once installed, it triggers automatically whenever you talk about making music with Suno.

Why this exists

Suno has no public API, so Claude can't generate the audio itself. The real gap between "interesting AI music" and "music I'd actually release" is pre-production — a precise prompt, deliberate song structure, and lyrics that sound like a person wrote them. That's exactly what this skill does. Everything it produces is text you paste straight into Suno's Custom Mode.

What it does

• Builds Style prompts using the 4–7 descriptor formula, with genre confidence tiers and a troubleshooting guide.
• Writes real lyrics with craft — structure, prosody, rhyme, hooks — and actively avoids the AI-cliché tells that make lyrics sound machine-made.
• Formats lyrics with the full metatag vocabulary, sung (ad-libs), and text-formatting vocal cues.
• Handles genre-switch / beat-switch songs (the soft-to-hard "earned switch" method) — one of the hardest things to land in Suno.
• Plans concept albums: tracklist sequencing, sonic cohesion, release prep.

Structure

suno-songsmith/
├── SKILL.md                      # workflow, output format, guardrails, routing
└── references/
    ├── prompt-architecture.md    # Style formula, sliders, generation loop, troubleshooting
    ├── metatags.md               # tags, ad-lib parentheses, formatting cues
    ├── songwriting.md            # lyric craft, anti-AI-cliché toolkit, titles, genre notes
    ├── genre-switch.md           # the earned beat-switch method
    └── album-production.md       # concept, sequencing, cohesion, release

Install

Claude.ai: Settings → Capabilities → upload suno-songsmith.skill.

Claude Code: unzip suno-songsmith.skill (it's a zip) into ~/.claude/skills/, or upload it via the skills UI.

Then just ask, e.g. "make me a moody synthwave track about a late-night drive," or "write a pop song that switches into a fast rap halfway through."

Notes

• Suno ships fast. The genre and metatag fundamentals age well; version-specific feature details (model names, pricing, Voices) may drift over time.
• The skill never puts real artist names in the Style prompt — Suno filters them, and descriptive equivalents produce better results anyway.

License

MIT — do what you like with it. (Change this to whatever you prefer before posting.)