spotify-mcp-doctor

spotify-mcp-doctor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NovaLux12/spotify-mcp-server. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,847 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for a Spotify MCP server, which connects coding agents to Spotify. It checks setup, login, permissions, devices, rate limits, and host configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose a broken Spotify MCP installation and apply the relevant configuration or authentication fix. It supports OpenClaw and Claude Desktop setups.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to find and repair common failures when Spotify tool calls do not work or setup gets stuck.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to diagnose a broken Spotify MCP installation and apply the relevant configuration or authentication fix. It supports OpenClaw and Claude Desktop setups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novalux12/spotify-mcp-server/spotify-mcp-doctor
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add NovaLux12/spotify-mcp-server --skill spotify-mcp-doctor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovaLux12/spotify-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,847 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.02847
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00285

Measured 18d ago against content hash 58f2954038bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spotify-mcp-doctor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 18d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/spotify-mcp-doctor/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spotify MCP Doctor

Diagnose a failing Spotify MCP server installation (NovaLux12/spotify-mcp-server). Work top-down through these probes; stop at the first red flag, apply its fix, then re-run from the top. Never modify files under the user's ~/.spotify-mcp/ beyond what a fix requires.

Probe 0 — Diagnose inside the MCP host

This probe requires only the active MCP connection: no shell, repository, or local build. It is the first probe for OpenClaw and other host-only agents.

  1. Call spotify_doctor with verbose: true.
  2. Call toolset_report on the same connection.
  3. Interpret the live rows rather than assuming the configuration:
    • token / token_refresh: missing, unreadable, or corrupt tokens are failures; an expired access token with a refresh token is a warning because the next API call refreshes it; a missing refresh token requires re-authentication.
    • scopes: compare the granted scopes with write capabilities in the active toolsets. Re-authenticate when the report names a gap.
    • account / account_premium: distinguish Free-account playback limits from transport or auth failures.
    • rate_limit: respect an active cooldown and its Retry-After value.
    • config: use the reported token path and fetch/shaping caps; do not substitute a guessed path.
    • cache: read cache disabled on this reporting path means the reporting process has no read cache, not that a cache is failing — see the row's detail line. The live figures come from a server session.
  4. Use toolset_report.structuredContent.registered_tools as the live registered-tool count. Use its active toolsets/modules to explain why a tool is missing; a toolset trim is different from a registration failure.
  5. Use spotify_doctor's surface row for the payload cost, not just the count. surface.schema_bytes is the UTF-8 size of the tools/list payload this session actually serves and surface.est_tokens is a rough token figure for it — the unit the schema budget gate enforces, which a tool-name count cannot answer. A caller who trimmed to a smaller surface and wants to know what that cost reads these two fields. They are 0 with registry_available: false, which is the CLI subcommand running outside the server process, not an empty surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 18d ago Changed · +23 lines 58f2954038bb
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines 5d7ba89d0bdc
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +66 lines 90883607d425
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e4dba015aae7

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spotify-mcp-doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository NovaLux12/spotify-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,847 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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