Offline • Scriptable • Deterministic

The CLI music workstation for humans and AI agents.

No accounts. No mystery state. Just scripts, renders, and outputs you actually keep under version control.

Generate music entirely from scripts. Export audio, MIDI, and JSON artifacts with a simple, agent-ready workflow.

Install claw-daw Hear the demo For agents

Install in one command curl -fsSL https://www.clawdaw.com/install.sh -o /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh && bash /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh

Local rendering Audio + MIDI + JSON Built for agent workflows

Demo output

RPG garden field loop

Generated from one short brief: a garden-field RPG loop with a Pokemon-leaning overworld feel and a seamless repeat.

Scrub the loop to hear how the phrase resets cleanly instead of fading into a sloppy restart.

0:00 0:00

Seamless loop Garden field vibe RPG overworld energy

Prompt that generated this loop

"Make a new track for an RPG game I'm building. The setting is a garden field. Kinda has a Pokemon vibe to it and have it loop seemlessly."

local render

$ claw-daw make-rpg-field-loop.sh

$ claw-daw --headless --soundfont "$SF2" --script tools/garden_field.txt
→ out/garden_field_loop.mp3
→ out/garden_field_loop.mid
→ out/garden_field_loop.json

# revise, rerender, compare
$ claw-daw diff_projects out/prev.json out/garden_field_loop.json

Why claw-daw works

The point is not that music software exists. The point is having a music workstation that behaves well in code-heavy, automation-heavy, agent-heavy workflows.

Offline first

Local by default

Render on your machine with a SoundFont, fluidsynth, and ffmpeg. No cloud account required.

Agent-ready

Designed for automation

The workflow fits bots as naturally as humans. Agents can generate, validate, diff, export, and iterate using files they can reason about.

Reproducible

Same inputs, same result

Pin script, seed, version, and SoundFont, and you get repeatable renders. That makes revision and evaluation much less chaotic.

The differentiator: it works for agents

This is the part that matters to developers and tool builders: claw-daw already ships with the operational docs an agent needs to use it well.

For agents

Start here if a bot will drive the workflow

Read skill.md for the working agent instructions.
Use AGENT_PLAYBOOK.md for acceptance tests and quality gates.
Use COMMANDS.md when you need the exact CLI surface.
Keep output names unique and export audio plus MIDI plus JSON every run.

Open skill.md Open agent playbook Open commands

first render

claw-daw doctor
SF2=$(claw-daw paths --soundfont | head -n 1)
mkdir -p tools out
cat > tools/first_render.txt << 'EOF'
new_project first_render 124
add_track Drums 0
set_kit 0 tight
new_pattern 0 d1 2:0
add_note_pat 0 d1 36 0:0 0:0:120 112
add_note_pat 0 d1 38 0:2 0:0:120 108
place_pattern 0 d1 0:0 8
export_project out/first_render.json
export_midi out/first_render.mid
export_mp3 out/first_render.mp3 preset=clean
EOF
claw-daw --headless --soundfont "$SF2" --script tools/first_render.txt

Install claw-daw

The install path should be easy to find and easy to copy. Everything else can come after that.

Install

Pick your platform

Recommended install

curl -fsSL https://www.clawdaw.com/install.sh -o /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh && bash /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh

curl -fsSL https://www.clawdaw.com/install_mac.sh -o /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh && bash /tmp/clawdaw-install.sh

iwr https://www.clawdaw.com/install_win.ps1 -UseBasicParsing -OutFile $env:TEMP\clawdaw-install.ps1; & $env:TEMP\clawdaw-install.ps1

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y fluidsynth ffmpeg fluid-soundfont-gm pipx
pipx install claw-daw

After install

Sanity-check your setup

Run claw-daw --version and claw-daw doctor.
Verify a SoundFont appears with claw-daw paths --soundfont.
If the CLI is missing from PATH, run pipx ensurepath and restart the terminal.

Read the user guide Open the agent cookbook

Docs

Once the page has done its job, the docs should take over quickly and clearly.

USER_GUIDE.md Human-facing install, TUI, headless scripting, and export flow. AGENT_PLAYBOOK.md Agent quality workflow, acceptance tests, and revision patterns. skill.md The operational skill file for agents making music with claw-daw. COMMANDS.md Command reference for the CLI and headless workflow.

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