cli-printing-press Project

The Printing Press prints a token-efficient Go CLI, a Claude Code skill and an MCP server for any API or website.

Its skills drive the cli-printing-press generator binary, which needs Go 1.26.10 or newer; install both.

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4,936 stars on GitHub, Nov 9, 2026 · 9 skills · 1 bundle

Its bundle

CLI Printing Press
Bundle of 9 skills

Use it when:
You want an agent-friendly command-line tool and MCP server for an API or website, built, tested and optionally shared in a public library.
It does:
printing-press researches and generates the CLI, output-review and polish check and fix it, score grades it, and publish opens a PR to the public library.

printing-press, printing-press-output-review, printing-press-polish, printing-press-score, printing-press-publish, printing-press-amend, printing-press-import, printing-press-reprint, printing-press-retro

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
7.9K
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Weekly Downloads
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Its skills, most installed first

printing-press
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
You want an agent-friendly command-line tool for an API or website, whether or not it publishes a spec.
It does:
Researches the API and competing CLIs and MCP servers, has you approve a feature list, generates and builds the Go code, then runs shipcheck and live tests.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli needs:subagents by:official agent-development implementation testing stack:go stack:mcp stack:openapi

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
7.9K
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Weekly Downloads
112
bottom 21%
printing-press-publish
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
You want a CLI you printed with printing-press added to the public Printing Press library.
It does:
Validates the CLI (build, vet, govulncheck, manifest), reruns its live test against the real API, scans for secrets and personal data, then packages it and opens the PR.

type:workflow effect:remote needs:cli by:official git ci code-review stack:github stack:go

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
7.1K
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Weekly Downloads
108
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printing-press-polish
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
A CLI printed by printing-press needs to pass verification and be publish-ready, after a run or on any CLI in your press library.
It does:
Runs dogfood, verify, workflow and skill checks, a scorecard, go vet and gosec, then fixes issues in priority order, security findings first.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official code-quality verification testing stack:go

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
bottom 43%
Total Downloads
7.1K
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Weekly Downloads
108
bottom 21%
printing-press-import
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
The public Printing Press library has a CLI you don't have locally, or your local copy is broken, lost or out of sync.
It does:
Finds the CLI in the library's registry, fetches it with its manuscripts, reverts the module path publishing rewrote, and places it in your press library.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official verification stack:go stack:github

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
6.7K
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Weekly Downloads
102
bottom 20%
printing-press-retro
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
A Printing Press run hit friction and you want the press itself fixed, not only the CLI it printed.
It does:
Reads the run's manuscripts and the session, drops one-off, per-CLI and vendor-quirk noise, and keeps defects that would recur across CLIs.

type:workflow effect:remote needs:cli needs:issue-tracker by:official debugging issue-tracking stack:github

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
6.7K
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Weekly Downloads
98
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printing-press-reprint
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
A Printing Press upgrade, such as a new MCP surface or auth mode, would lift a printed CLI more than polishing it.
It does:
Makes sure the CLI is local, recommends reusing or redoing its research by age, and offers spec enrichments where its last scorecard was weak.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official migration implementation stack:go stack:mcp

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
6.6K
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Weekly Downloads
98
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printing-press-score
Part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
You want a printed CLI's score again after changes, or to compare two versions of a CLI.
It does:
Runs the press's scorecard on a CLI found by name, by path or from your current run, with its OpenAPI spec when it finds one.

type:tool effect:none needs:cli by:official code-quality verification stack:go

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
6.6K
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Weekly Downloads
103
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printing-press-output-review
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

It does:
Samples the printed CLI's commands through the scorecard's live check, then has a subagent judge the passing outputs as a person would.
Catches:
Results that match the query only as a substring, implausible top rankings, silently dropped sources, mojibake, and links to index pages instead of permalinks.

type:workflow effect:none needs:cli needs:subagents by:official testing verification

Age
6 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
6.6K
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Weekly Downloads
100
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printing-press-amend
Only works as part of CLI Printing Press

Use it when:
A published Printing Press CLI fell short while you used it, or you want its commands renamed, added or fixed.
It does:
Mines the Claude Code session transcript for friction or parses your typed asks, then plans, edits, validates and documents the fix.

type:workflow effect:remote needs:cli needs:issue-tracker needs:claude-code by:official debugging implementation git stack:github stack:go

Age
5 months
Stars
4.9K
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Total Downloads
5.7K
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Weekly Downloads
101
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