Skill
verify
How to verify media.sh changes end-to-end on a real Mac — isolated data dir, real native build, and a controllable fake now-playing app (no dependency on the…
Automation
Skill
/prev
Go back to the previous track in whatever app is playing on this Mac. Use when the user says previous song, go back a track, or replay the last song.
Install
$ npx -y skills add Bangs00/claude-media-control --skill prev --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/prev
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Go back to the previous track in whatever app is playing on this Mac. Use when the user says previous song, go back a track, or replay the last song.
SKILL.md
prev.SKILL.mdname: prev description: Go back to the previous track in whatever app is playing on this Mac. Use when the user says previous song, go back a track, or replay the last song. allowed-tools: Bash
Went to the previous track. Resulting state (JSON):
!`"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/media.sh" prev`
Confirm to the user in one compact markdown line (not a code block): `▶︎|⏸ **<title>** — *<artist>* · <appName>` (title bold, artist italic) — this is the track now playing.
- Note: many apps restart the current track on the first "previous" and only jump to the prior track on a second call — mention this if the title did not change.
- If the JSON is `null`: nothing was playing to control.
- If `"degraded": true` or a stderr hint appeared: add one short note pointing to `/media:doctor`.
Ships withmedia
The current track, live in your Claude Code statusline — ticking every second, ⌘+clickable, styleable down to the bar characters: And whatever your Mac is playing — Spotify, Apple Music, a browser tab, VLC — you can control it from the chat too: "what song is
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