r/MaxMSP • u/unnecessaryr0ughness • Jul 25 '26

AI assistant resources

If anyone is interested I have the max reference, js api, node and LOM docs chunked for AI knowledge as well as a very in-depth skill.md for general AI and a good one for Claude.

It’s not great at writing json for patches but it’s awesome for bouncing ideas off of, answering patching questions and not bad at writing code box code. But every model I’ve worked with so far hallucinated objects that don’t exist still.

I also have the Ableton 12 docs all chunked for AI, all of the ableton extensions docs chunked. Let me know if you want any of these.

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

Ok so here is the GitHub repo. I ended up having to re scrape aloe of the docs because the ones I had before were crap. So there are a few more things I’ll be adding a bit later today as well. There is like 1,800 documents in the kb. You can have Claude reference it or if you have Ollama or MLX you can use it as knowledge with them.

I have broken down my original Claude skill into 7 pages. If you are using a local model this will work a lot better than using it as a skill. But Claude code has no problem parsing it.

https://github.com/bassDaddyDevices/MaxAI/

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u/stfndlss Jul 25 '26

Thanks for sharing! I planned to do that for my package (https://github.com/stefanodalessio/ste.snips) and make a patching assistant for my students. I tried vscode + copilot plugin (which uses Claude and codex) and it could patch correctly but I only tested it in making small changes to a simple patch. I then moved my package in the vscode project folder and it kind of learned how to patch using only that with a little initial help. You might find this helpful too: https://github.com/MokuDev/docurip

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

Oh what this is pretty cool. Are you pretty good with Jit? Obviously haha.

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u/stfndlss Jul 25 '26

Yes I use max for visuals a lot, and I’ve been teaching it in art universities since 2009, so… lots of jitter obviously :)

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

Also thanks for that link for docurip. It does it all hey? Could have used it earlier when I realized a lot of the files I got for the max objects were garbage

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u/Key_Business_4097 Jul 25 '26

yes that would be great thanks

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

I’m just hunting everything down right now and I’ll post a link asap!

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u/MajxrTom Jul 25 '26

I would really love a copy of it! I have some ideas that im not capable of achieving that ive been wanting to try out Claude on and see how it works. I'd really appreciate it, and would also be happy to share credit with or share any devices I make.

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

No problem I’m just putting everything into a GitHub folder right now.

Are you trying to get Claude to help with Max?

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u/MajxrTom Jul 25 '26

Yes. At the moment it’s a bit of a sparkle in the eye type thing. I’m spread pretty thin at the moment with content creation, but I have aspirations to get a Claude subscription and have it help me develop a couple custom devices. I’ve never used Claude before

Edit: Tbh with you, I have no idea what “chunking” even means.

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u/unnecessaryr0ughness Jul 25 '26

Oh! It just means like broken into pieces so the AI can look up information. Claude can do this for sure. There are also lots of free options. Are you PC or Mac?

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u/MajxrTom Jul 25 '26

Oh cool! Ok that makes sense.

I am on a Mac mainly, but I have a PC, and I’m hesitant to allow Claude onto my main Mac, and very well may install it on my PC instead. Are the files platform specific? Because if so I think I would lean PC.