printing-press-import

printing-press-import is a skill for Claude Code from mvanhorn/cli-printing-press. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that copies a published command-line tool from a public library into an internal working library. The imported copy includes its related manuscripts and is restored to the format expected by the generator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import a named CLI from the public library, recover a lost or broken internal copy, or create a clean baseline before editing a published CLI.
Why use it?
It provides a clean local copy when the tool is missing, damaged, or out of sync. This prepares it for later polishing, embossing, or republishing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is || ./bin/${API_SLUG}-pp-cli doctor 2>/dev/null \.

Part of the cli-printing-press plugin — 9 skills, 1 hook shipped together

not rated 4.7krepo +29 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 104 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to import a named CLI from the public library, recover a lost or broken internal copy, or create a clean baseline before editing a published CLI.

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About the project

CLI Printing Press is a tool that creates Go command-line clients, Claude Code skills, and MCP servers for APIs and websites by studying their documentation and existing integrations. It is intended for AI agents and developers who need token-efficient command-line access to services and compound queries. The catalogue entries are skills, instructions, plugins, settings, and a hook related to using the generated tools and the press.

mvanhorn/cli-printing-press · 4,650 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/printing-press-import

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cli-printing-press, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,731 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 7 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00104 $0.02731
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01366
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00273

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c91dabe55e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

printing-press-import scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (references/import-backup.sh, references/import-fetch.sh, references/import-place.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/printing-press-import/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/printing-press-import

Bring a published CLI from the public library (mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into the internal library at $PRESS_LIBRARY/ so it matches the form the generator would produce. Manuscripts ride along.

/printing-press-import notion
/printing-press-import cal.com
/printing-press-import allrecipes --from-clone ~/Code/printing-press-library

The internal library is the working copy; the public library is the durable artifact. After import, the CLI is ready for polish, emboss, or re-publish — the publish step will re-apply the module path rewrites.

When to run

  • The public library has a CLI you don't have locally
  • The internal copy is broken, lost, or out of sync
  • You want a clean baseline before running polish on a published CLI

If the user is asking to polish a CLI and mentions "in/from the public library" or "from the repo", suggest running this skill first.

Setup

PRESS_HOME="${PRINTING_PRESS_HOME:-$HOME/printing-press}"
PRESS_LIBRARY="$PRESS_HOME/library"
PRESS_MANUSCRIPTS="$PRESS_HOME/manuscripts"
SCRIPTS_DIR="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]:-.}")/references"

if ! command -v go >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo ""
  echo "[setup-error] Go toolchain not found."
  echo ""
  echo "This Printing Press flow runs Go-based build or validation commands."
  echo "Install Go 1.26.6 or newer from https://go.dev/dl/, then verify with:"
  echo "  go version"
  echo "Then re-run this skill."
  echo ""
  return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
fi

_pp_check_disk_space() {
  _pp_disk_warn_kb="${PRINTING_PRESS_DISK_WARN_KB:-3145728}"
  _pp_disk_fail_kb="${PRINTING_PRESS_DISK_FAIL_KB:-524288}"
  case "$_pp_disk_warn_kb$_pp_disk_fail_kb" in
    ""|*[!0-9]*) return 0 ;;
  esac

  _pp_disk_path="$PRESS_HOME"
  while [ ! -e "$_pp_disk_path" ] && [ "$_pp_disk_path" != "/" ]; do
    _pp_disk_path="$(dirname "$_pp_disk_path")"
  done

  _pp_disk_avail_kb="$(df -Pk "$_pp_disk_path" 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN {
    if ((getline header) <= 0 || (getline record) <= 0) exit
    field_count = split(record, fields)
    if (field_count >= 4) print fields[4]
  }')"
  case "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" in
    ""|*[!0-9]*) return 0 ;;
  esac

  if [ "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" -lt "$_pp_disk_fail_kb" ]; then
    echo ""
    echo "[setup-error] Critically low disk space on the Printing Press workspace volume."
    echo "PRESS_DISK_PATH=$_pp_disk_path"
    echo "PRESS_DISK_AVAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_avail_kb"
    echo "PRESS_DISK_FAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_fail_kb"
    echo "Free disk space or set PRINTING_PRESS_HOME to a volume with more room, then re-run this skill."
    echo ""
    return 1
  fi

  if [ "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" -lt "$_pp_disk_warn_kb" ]; then
    echo ""
    echo "[low-disk] Printing Press workspace volume is low on free space."
    echo "PRESS_DISK_PATH=$_pp_disk_path"
    echo "PRESS_DISK_AVAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_avail_kb"
    echo "PRESS_DISK_WARN_KB=$_pp_disk_warn_kb"
    echo "This flow may need several GiB for generated files, Go build cache, module downloads, or repository clones."
    echo ""
  fi
}
_pp_check_disk_space || { return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1; }

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 286 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 1c91dabe55e6

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printing-press-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository mvanhorn/cli-printing-press (4,650 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,731 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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