controlling-spotify SKILL.md skillB

controlling-spotify from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/controlling-spotify@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Path
plugins/social-and-lifestyle/skills/controlling-spotify/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Jul 7, 2026
Size
11,057 bytes
Repository stars
158
License
MIT

Control Spotify playback and manage playlists via MCP server. Use when user requests playing music, controlling Spotify, creating playlists, searching songs, or managing their Spotify library.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Controlling Spotify

Control Spotify playback, search for music, and manage playlists using the Spotify MCP Server with full user account access.

## When to Use

Invoke this skill when users request:
- Playing, pausing, or skipping music on Spotify
- Searching for songs, albums, artists, or playlists
- Creating or modifying playlists
- Viewing currently playing track or playback status
- Managing their Spotify library (saved tracks, albums)
- Queuing songs or albums

## Prerequisites

**CRITICAL**: This skill requires user-provided credentials. The user must complete a one-time setup:

### One-Time User Setup

1. **Create Spotify Developer Application**
   - Go to https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/
   - Create an app and note the Client ID and Client Secret
   - Add redirect URI: `http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback`

2. **Obtain Refresh Token**
   - User must run the helper script locally (see `references/setup-guide.md`)
   - Script exchanges OAuth code for a long-lived refresh token
   - Refresh token is saved as credential in skill configuration

3. **Configure Credentials**
   - Add three credentials to this skill:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/controlling-spotify@sha256:54a59026a33b2c61

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 7, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.1.0 latest2026-07-07 6154d36 11,057 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:8888)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11057 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nwpmplcddbjxqc4p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/controlling-spotify
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54a59026a33b2c6137322d9f5f6460050199d7d270ef3b5d08fe7f9123605550

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