skills/pika-audio/SKILL.md

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name: pika-audio
description: Use when the user wants music, a song with lyrics, a sound effect, or a soundtrack scored to a video clip.
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# Music, sound effects and soundtracks

1. To score a video, use `pika_soundtrack`: the clip as `video` (`ask_for_media` with `kind: "video"`, or an earlier output url) and an optional `instruction` (blank scores the picture on its own). Skip to step 4.
2. Otherwise use `create_audio` and pick `model` (default `pika/pika-audio/pika-music`); its values are the choices, listed here:
   - Music: `pika/pika-audio/pika-music` (`prompt`, `duration` 10–360 s in 5 s steps, default 30, optional `lyrics`) · `minimax/minimax-music-3.0/text-to-audio` (`prompt` and/or `lyrics`, `is_instrumental`; an instrumental needs a prompt) · `sonilo/sonilo-v1.1-music/text-to-music` (`prompt`, `duration` 5–360 s in 5 s steps) · `google/lyria-3-pro/text-to-audio` and `google/lyria-2/sound-effects` (`prompt` only).
   - Sound effects: `pika/pika-audio/pika-sfx` (`prompt`, `duration` 1–20 s, default 10) · `elevenlabs/eleven-text-to-sound-v2/sound-effects` (`text` up to 450 chars, `duration_seconds` 1–30, default 5, `prompt_influence` 0–1) · `sonilo/sonilo-v1.1-sfx/sound-effects` (`prompt`, `duration` 1–180 s).
   - Other: `bytedance/seed-audio-1.0/text-to-audio` (`prompt` up to 3000 chars).
3. Describe genre, mood, instruments and tempo for music; the source, action and space for a sound effect.
4. Call the tool with a fresh `request_id` and no `max_credits`, then follow the quote's `next` (it applies the user's approval mode). On a yes, call it again with the same input and `request_id` and the agreed `max_credits`.
5. To lay it under a video, add it to a project as an `a2` clip, the score lane (see `pika-short-film`).