now-playing-dig

This Skill reads the current artist and title from the now-playing service, then runs a web search for producer, sample, B-side, chart, and story details. It returns the answer plus up to three source snippets for the DJ to work into one conversational line.

It only uses what the search tool actually returns. If the search produces no answer and no sources, the Skill reports itself unavailable so the DJ says nothing, and the instructions explicitly forbid guessing, hedging, or generic fun facts.

If the now-playing data has no artist or title, or either value starts with "unknown", the Skill immediately returns unavailable and performs no search. This prevents wasted queries and unreliable results.

Yes. The ready check gates on the search service being available, so the Skill only activates when a web search provider is configured in the station controller. Without one it stays inactive.

The Skill records the last researched track key and flags whether the current track was already dug into via the alreadyDug field. The DJ can use this to avoid repeating the same trivia for a repeated song.