spotify

spotify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Panchangam18/background-computer-use. It costs 35 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating instructions for controlling the Spotify desktop app with computer interaction. Spotify is a music and podcast application whose interface may not expose every control reliably to accessibility tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want an agent to control Spotify without taking over the computer's focus. It covers playback shortcuts, searching, and track menus for queue or playlist actions.
Why use it?
The app's interface can lag behind playback and some controls may be difficult to target directly. These instructions provide fallback ways to play, pause, skip, search, adjust volume, and manage tracks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the background-computer-use plugin — 8 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panchangam18/background-computer-use/spotify
Any agent
npx skills add Panchangam18/background-computer-use --skill spotify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Panchangam18/background-computer-use

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install background-computer-use, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for spotify

README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 288 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.00288
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00144
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00029

Measured 4d ago against content hash c9351fcf19fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spotify 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 4d 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/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Driving Spotify with background computer use

Spotify is Electron + WebView, so accessibility coverage is partial. Mix element indexes with coordinate and keyboard fallbacks.

  1. Always call get_app_state app="Spotify" before interacting.
  2. Trust post-action snapshots, not pre-action ones — the UI lags real playback state by 300–800 ms.
  3. Transport controls have reliable keyboard shortcuts; prefer them over coordinate clicks:
    • space — play/pause
    • command+Right / command+Left — next / previous
    • command+Up / command+Down — volume up / down
  4. For search, try set_value on the search field first. If it silently fails, click the field, press_key key="command+a", then type_text.
  5. Track rows advertise ShowMenu as a secondary action for queue / add-to- playlist. Re-read state after the menu opens.

Detailed notes live in server/app-hints/Spotify.md; they are injected as <app_hints> on every get_app_state call for Spotify.

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. 4d ago First seen · 26 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A c9351fcf19fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spotify is a skill published in the GitHub repository Panchangam18/background-computer-use (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 288 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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