Three quality improvements on top of #15121 / #15130 / #15135:
1. Tool consolidation (9 → 7)
- spotify_saved_tracks + spotify_saved_albums → spotify_library with
kind='tracks'|'albums'. Handler code was ~90 percent identical
across the two old tools; the merge is a behavioral no-op.
- spotify_activity dropped. Its 'now_playing' action was a duplicate
of spotify_playback.get_currently_playing (both return identical
204/empty payloads). Its 'recently_played' action moves onto
spotify_playback as a new action — history belongs adjacent to
live state.
- Net: each API call ships 2 fewer tool schemas when the Spotify
toolset is enabled, and the action surface is more discoverable
(everything playback-related is on one tool).
2. Spotify skill (skills/media/spotify/SKILL.md)
Teaches the agent canonical usage patterns so common requests don't
balloon into 4+ tool calls:
- 'play X' = one search, then play by URI (not search + scan +
describe + play)
- 'what's playing' = single get_currently_playing (no preflight
get_state chain)
- Don't retry on '403 Premium required' or '403 No active device' —
both require user action
- URI/URL/bare-ID format normalization
- Full failure-mode reference for 204/401/403/429
3. Surfaced in 'hermes setup' tool status
Adds 'Spotify (PKCE OAuth)' to the tool status list when
auth.json has a Spotify access/refresh token. Matches the
homeassistant pattern but reads from auth.json (OAuth-based) rather
than env vars.
Docs updated to reflect the new 7-tool surface, and mention the
companion skill in the 'Using it' section.
Tests: 54 passing (client 22, auth 15, tools_config 35 — 18 = 54 after
renaming/replacing the spotify_activity tests with library +
recently_played coverage). Docusaurus build clean.
The initial Spotify docs page shipped in #15130 was a setup guide. This
expands it into a full feature reference:
- Per-tool parameter table for all 9 tools, extracted from the real
schemas in tools/spotify_tool.py (actions, required/optional args,
premium gating).
- Free vs Premium feature matrix — which actions work on which tier,
so Free users don't assume Spotify tools are useless to them.
- Active-device prerequisite called out at the top; this is the #1
cause of '403 no active device' reports for every Spotify
integration.
- SSH / headless section explaining that browser auto-open is skipped
when SSH_CLIENT/SSH_TTY is set, and how to tunnel the callback port.
- Token lifecycle: refresh on 401, persistence across restarts, how
to revoke server-side via spotify.com/account/apps.
- Example prompt list so users know what to ask the agent.
- Troubleshooting expanded: no-active-device, Premium-required, 204
now_playing, INVALID_CLIENT, 429, 401 refresh-revoked, wizard not
opening browser.
- 'Where things live' table mapping auth.json / .env / Spotify app.
Verified with 'node scripts/prebuild.mjs && npx docusaurus build'
— page compiles, no new warnings.
Previously 'hermes auth spotify' crashed with 'HERMES_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID
is required' if the user hadn't manually created a Spotify developer
app and set env vars. Now the command detects a missing client_id and
walks the user through the one-time app registration inline:
- Opens https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard in the browser
- Tells the user exactly what to paste into the Spotify form
(including the correct default redirect URI, 127.0.0.1:43827)
- Prompts for the Client ID
- Persists HERMES_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID to ~/.hermes/.env so subsequent
runs skip the wizard
- Continues straight into the PKCE OAuth flow
Also prints the docs URL at both the start of the wizard and the end
of a successful login so users can find the full guide.
Adds website/docs/user-guide/features/spotify.md with the complete
setup walkthrough, tool reference, and troubleshooting, and wires it
into the sidebar under User Guide > Features > Advanced.
Fixes a stale redirect URI default in the hermes_cli/tools_config.py
TOOL_CATEGORIES entry (was 8888/callback from the PR description
instead of the actual DEFAULT_SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI value
43827/spotify/callback defined in auth.py).
