@mvanhorn/printing-press

Installer and catalog CLI for Printing Press-generated CLIs. Each install pulls down a Go binary plus its focused agent skill — the skill lands in every supported agent on your machine (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and other agents the upstream skills CLI detects).

Quick start

The fastest way in is the starter pack — four hand-picked CLIs and skills installed in one command:

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install starter-pack

The starter pack installs espn (live sports), flight-goat (flight search), movie-goat (movie discovery), and recipe-goat (recipe ranking).

Installing CLIs and skills

Every install pulls down the Go binary and the focused skill in one shot. Use --cli-only or --skill-only (see Options) if you want just one half.

One tool:

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn

Several at once (bundles and CLI names mix freely):

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn sentry dub
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install starter-pack cal-com

Under the hood: the installer reads the live catalog at registry.json, resolves the CLI's Go module path, runs go install, and installs the matching focused skill from cli-skills/pp-<name> via npx skills@latest.

Other commands

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press search sports
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press list
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press update espn
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press uninstall espn --yes

Options

# Install only the Go binary, skip the focused skill
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn --cli-only

# Install only the focused skill, skip the Go binary
# (binary will lazy-install on first agent invocation via the skill's instructions)
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn --skill-only

# Constrain skill installation to a specific agent (repeatable)
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn --agent claude-code

# Machine-readable output
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install espn --json

# Pin to an alternate catalog (mainly for testing)
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press search sports --registry-url https://example.com/registry.json

--cli-only and --skill-only are mutually exclusive. They both work with bundles — … install starter-pack --cli-only installs four binaries with no skills, useful for CI machines that don't run Claude Code.

Bundles

| Name | Members | |---|---| | starter-pack | espn, flight-goat, movie-goat, recipe-goat |

More bundles will be added over time. To suggest one, open an issue at the printing-press-library repo.

Requirements

• Node.js 20+
• Go 1.26.3 or newer (for go install)
• $(go env GOPATH)/bin on $PATH (usually $HOME/go/bin) so installed CLIs are runnable

While the catalog repository is private, also set GITHUB_TOKEN or GH_TOKEN for catalog and skill fetches, and ensure Go can read private github.com/mvanhorn/* modules.