MCP: workflows

Prompts to try with the Maru MCP server: review a project, answer from the guides, learn from community modules, check a plug-in build and start a new project.

Once your agent is connected, ask in your own words; the agent picks the tools. These prompts are good starting points. Every project and build the agent reports carries a link: open it to check, because the page is the source of truth, not the summary.

Catch up on your work

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What am I working on in Maru? List my projects by most recent change and
give me the Studio link for each.

Understand a project

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Explain how my Night Tape project works, from its source: the signal path,
the parameters, and where the feedback amount is set. Show the lines.

Review before you change

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Search my synth project for every place the filter cutoff is read or set.
Then tell me what I would need to change to add a keytracking amount.

Answer from the guides

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How do I add a parameter with a preset-safe default to a module? Read the
Maru guide first and quote the part you rely on.

Learn from the community

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Find published granular instruments in the Maru community. Pick the most
remixed one with open source and show me how it schedules its grains.

Choose building blocks

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Which Maru DSP nodes could I combine for a stereo chorus? List their
parameters and suggest a signal path.

Check a plug-in build

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Did my latest plug-in build finish? Which formats can I install, and if a
build failed, what was the error? Give me the dashboard link.

Start something new

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Show me the effect templates and suggest one for a tape delay. Then create a
Studio project from it called Night Tape 2.

Hand off to your checkout

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Find my Night Tape project and read the module-authoring guide. Then, with
the local maru mcp server, make the repeats darker as they fade and run
maru module check.

The last prompt uses both servers: the remote one for the project and the guide, and the local maru mcp server for the edit and the check. In a coding agent, npx maruaudio mcp install --both adds both, and npx maruaudio skill install adds the agent skill, which tells the agent how to check, build and verify with the CLI. See Use Maru from your agent.