Permissions by actor
- Headless Music — Requirement: View Channel, Connect, and Speak · Why: Read channel context, join voice, and stream audio.
- Member — Requirement: Access to a voice channel · Why: Playback commands use the invoking member’s voice channel.
- Server administrator — Requirement: Manage Server · Why: Required by
/247,/announce,/buttons, and/customize. - Music service — Requirement: Configured Lavalink connection · Why: Lavalink resolves tracks and plays audio.
Voice channel and controls
Most playback and queue-changing controls require the person to be in the same voice channel as the bot. Queries such as/queue and /nowplaying can inspect the active player without that condition.