/printing-press-catalog

Deprecated: This skill is superseded by the main /printing-press skill, which now checks the built-in catalog automatically. Use /printing-press <API> instead. For browsing the catalog, use cli-printing-press catalog list in your terminal.

Browse and install pre-built Go CLIs for popular APIs.

Quick Start

/printing-press-catalog
/printing-press-catalog install stripe
/printing-press-catalog search auth

Prerequisites

• Go 1.26.4 or newer installed
• cli-printing-press binary on PATH (install with go install github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/v4/cmd/cli-printing-press@latest)

Setup

Before any other commands, run the setup contract to verify the cli-printing-press binary is on PATH and initialize scope variables:

# min-binary-version: 4.0.0

# Derive scope first — needed for local build detection
_scope_dir="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo "$PWD")"
_scope_dir="$(cd "$_scope_dir" && pwd -P)"

# Prefer local build when running from inside the printing-press repo.
_press_repo=false
if [ -x "$_scope_dir/cli-printing-press" ] && [ -d "$_scope_dir/cmd/cli-printing-press" ]; then
  _press_repo=true
  export PATH="$_scope_dir:$PATH"
  echo "Using local build: $_scope_dir/cli-printing-press"
elif ! command -v cli-printing-press >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  if [ -x "$HOME/go/bin/cli-printing-press" ]; then
    echo "cli-printing-press found at ~/go/bin/cli-printing-press but not on PATH."
    echo "Add GOPATH/bin to your PATH:  export PATH=\"\$HOME/go/bin:\$PATH\""
  else
    echo "cli-printing-press binary not found."
    echo "Install with:  go install github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/v4/cmd/cli-printing-press@latest"
  fi
  return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
fi

# Resolve and emit the absolute path the agent must use for every later
# `cli-printing-press` invocation. `export PATH` above only affects this one
# Bash tool call; subsequent calls open a fresh shell and resolve bare
# `cli-printing-press` against the user's default PATH, where a stale global
# can silently shadow the local build. The agent captures this marker and
# substitutes the absolute path into every later invocation.
if [ "$_press_repo" = "true" ]; then
  PRINTING_PRESS_BIN="$_scope_dir/cli-printing-press"
else
  PRINTING_PRESS_BIN="$(command -v cli-printing-press 2>/dev/null || true)"
fi
echo "PRINTING_PRESS_BIN=$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN"

PRESS_BASE="$(basename "$_scope_dir" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sed -E 's/[^a-z0-9_-]/-/g; s/^-+//; s/-+$//')"
if [ -z "$PRESS_BASE" ]; then
  PRESS_BASE="workspace"
fi

PRESS_SCOPE="$PRESS_BASE-$(printf '%s' "$_scope_dir" | shasum -a 256 | cut -c1-8)"
PRESS_HOME="${PRINTING_PRESS_HOME:-$HOME/printing-press}"
PRESS_RUNSTATE="$PRESS_HOME/.runstate/$PRESS_SCOPE"
PRESS_LIBRARY="$PRESS_HOME/library"

mkdir -p "$PRESS_RUNSTATE" "$PRESS_LIBRARY"

After running the setup contract, capture the PRINTING_PRESS_BIN=<abs-path> line from stdout. Every subsequent cli-printing-press ... invocation in this skill must use that absolute path (substitute the value, not the literal $PRINTING_PRESS_BIN token) — export PATH above only affects the single Bash tool call it runs in, so later calls open a fresh shell where bare cli-printing-press resolves against the user's default PATH and a stale global can shadow the local build.

After capturing the binary path, check binary version compatibility. Read the min-binary-version field from this skill's YAML frontmatter. Run <PRINTING_PRESS_BIN> version --json and parse the version from the output. Compare it to min-binary-version using semver rules. If the installed binary is older than the minimum, stop immediately and tell the user: "cli-printing-press binary vX.Y.Z is older than the minimum required vA.B.C. Run go install github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/v4/cmd/cli-printing-press@latest to update."

Generated CLIs are published to $PRESS_LIBRARY/, not to the repo.

Workflows

List Catalog (no arguments)

When invoked with no arguments, list all available CLIs grouped by category.

1. Read all YAML files in catalog/ using Glob + Read
2. Parse each file's name, display_name, description, category fields
3. Group by category and display:

Available CLIs (12 entries):

Payments:
  stripe - Payment processing and financial infrastructure API
  square - Payment processing and commerce API

Auth:
  stytch - Authentication and user management API

Email:
  sendgrid - Email delivery and marketing API

Communication:
  discord - Chat and community platform API
  twilio - Communication APIs for SMS, voice, and messaging
  front - Customer communication platform API

Developer Tools:
  github - Software development platform API
  digitalocean - Cloud infrastructure and developer platform API

Project Management:
  asana - Work management and project tracking API

CRM:
  hubspot - CRM contacts API

Example:
  petstore - Canonical OpenAPI example

Install any CLI: /printing-press-catalog install <name>

Install (install <name>)

When invoked with install <name>:

1. Read catalog/<name>.yaml
2. If file doesn't exist, show error: "No catalog entry for '<name>'. Run /printing-press-catalog to see available CLIs."
3. Extract spec_url from the catalog entry
4. Show preview: "Installing <display_name> CLI from <spec_url>"
5. Download the spec and generate:

   CATALOG_TMP_DIR="/tmp/printing-press/catalog"
   mkdir -p "$CATALOG_TMP_DIR"
   SPEC_TMP="$(mktemp "$CATALOG_TMP_DIR/<name>-spec-XXXXXX.yaml")"
   curl -sL -o "$SPEC_TMP" "<spec_url>"
   OUTPUT_BASE="$PRESS_LIBRARY/<name>-pp-cli"
   OUTPUT_DIR="$OUTPUT_BASE"
   i=2
   while [ -e "$OUTPUT_DIR" ]; do
     OUTPUT_DIR="${OUTPUT_BASE}-$i"
     i=$((i + 1))
   done
   cli-printing-press generate \
     --spec "$SPEC_TMP" \
     --output "$OUTPUT_DIR" \
     --validate
   

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6. If all quality gates pass, present the result:

   Generated <name>-pp-cli with X resources.
   
   Try it:
     cd "$OUTPUT_DIR"
     go install ./cmd/<name>-pp-cli
     <name>-pp-cli --help
     <name>-pp-cli doctor
   

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7. If gates fail, show the error and suggest: "Try /printing-press <display_name> API for a custom generation with retry support."

Search (search <query>)

When invoked with search <query>:

1. Read all YAML files in catalog/
2. Search name, display_name, description, and category for the query (case-insensitive)
3. Display matching entries

Limitations

• Large API specs (Stripe, Discord, GitHub) take 30-60 seconds to generate and compile
• Generated CLIs are truncated to 50 resources / 20 endpoints per resource
• Catalog entries point to external URLs that may change