Printing Press Import

Pulls a published CLI from the printing-press public library into your local working copy, reversing the module path rewrites so it looks like a fresh generator run. The skill fuzzy-matches your input against registry.json, checks provenance to avoid clobbering newer local work, backs up what's there, then fetches and rewrites the code in one shot. You'd use this when the public repo has a CLI you don't have locally, or when your internal copy is broken and you want a clean baseline before running polish. The resolve phase is thoughtful,it tries exact match, then normalized, then substring on name or description,and surfaces up to four candidates if ambiguous.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add mvanhorn/cli-printing-press --skill printing-press-import --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/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"

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