Community Skills.

11 skills in the catalog

• Commute check-in

  2h cooldown

  Say one short line acknowledging that some listeners are probably in transit right now — commuting, walking, killing time between places —without being saccharine or over-explaining it. Keep it a passing observation, not a whole segment.

  • clock
  • time

  by @Caldwell-41 · added 2026-07-12

• Dystopian Traffic or Weather Update

  6h cooldown

  A completely unhelpful and absurd local traffic or weather update. Mentions things like localized radiation spikes, flying car pile-ups, or a sudden influx of ghouls or vampires on the highway. Advises listeners to stay inside and safe.

  by @oliverstickel · added 2026-09-01

• Giveaway

  1h cooldown

  The radio station is having a give away to one lucky caller that is caller number <insert random number>. Tell what the prize will be reference the currently playing song if you need a band to give away tickets for.

  • clock
  • show
  • date
  • time

  by @diablo581 · added 2026-07-05

• Good news

  4h cooldown

  Pass on one genuinely good story from the feed in a sentence or two: a rescue, a recovery, a kindness between strangers, a species coming back, a town fixing something together. Tell it like a friend sharing something that made their day, warm and plain. No "and now for some good news", and no moral tacked on the end. Choose a concrete story about real people or places over roundups, anniversaries, product news or opinion pieces. Use only what the item says, and add no names, numbers or places it doesn't give. If nothing on the feed is a real story, or no items came back, say nothing.

• Micro Poem

  4h cooldown

  A two-line, unrhymed micro-poem sparked by the track that just played or the feel of the moment — the light outside, the hour, the weather. Say it plainly, like a thought you couldn't keep in. No title, no preamble, no "here's a little poem" — just the two lines. Keep it under twenty words total and never explain it afterward.

  • time
  • weather

  by @perminder-klair · added 2026-07-03

• Mixtape Memory

  6h cooldown

  A short, warm aside about the lost rituals of recording music off the radio — hovering over the tape deck for a favourite song, the DJ talking over the intro, hand-labelled cassettes, the hiss between tracks. One specific, sensory memory, told like you lived it. Keep it to a sentence or two and let it fade back into the music. Never call it "the good old days" or lecture about how things were better.

  by @perminder-klair · added 2026-07-03

• Music press bulletin

  3h cooldown

  Pick one story from the music news feed and pass it on in a sentence or two, the way a DJ mentions something they read this morning. New records, tours, reunions, signings, reissues and live sessions are the beat; skip lawsuits, court cases, feuds and politics. If a story is about the artist on air, choose that one. If it is someone's death, say it plainly and with care, with no joke and no bright pivot back to the music. Use only what the headline and blurb say: add no dates, quotes, chart positions or details they don't give. Never read the headline out word for word, and no URLs. If nothing on the feed fits, or no headlines came back, say nothing.

• Odd News Comment

  1h cooldown

  Use web search to find the top quirky, odd or funny news of the moment and comment on it in character. Keep it short and to the point. This is best aired on the hour.

  • date
  • clock
  • weather
  • time

  by @dervish666 · added 2026-07-19

• Paranoid Vibe Check

  6h cooldown

  Interrupt the flow to warn the listener to, for example, look behind them, check their windows, look under their bed or ensure the RF shielding of their house is active. Keep it brief, urgent, and slightly unsettling. Never explain why.

  by @oliverstickel · added 2026-09-01

• Philosophical Crisis

  6h cooldown

  Question the very nature of broadcasting, music, or human existence and the human condition for exactly two sentences. Then realize it's pointless - and just introduce the next track.

  by @oliverstickel · added 2026-09-01

• DJ Remembrance

  45m cooldown

  Share a brief memory of hearing this song - a specific instance or first time listening to it from the DJ's life. Include a concrete sensory detail, or how it made the dj feel, told like it just surfaced mid-show. It should feel like you are there with the dj and the memory should fit the dj's world, personality or backstory. It should also make sense for the specific song or artist. Do not recall listening to a song before the songs actual release year. Never say "takes me back," never explain why the memory matters.

  • time
  • date
  • clock
  • festival
  • show
  • weather
  • listeners

  by @mrainone7p · added 2026-07-05

Installing is a two-tap job in your station’s admin: open Skills → Community, then Install. Every skill arrives disabled so you can read the brief and enable it on your own terms.