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Printing Press Polish

mvanhorn/cli-printing-press

Run this after any /printing-press generation to get your CLI from "ship-with-gaps" to actually shippable. It dogfoods the CLI against itself, runs verify and scorecard, then systematically fixes whatever broke: dead code, missing descriptions, README gaps, verify failures. The whole diagnostic loop runs in a forked context so your main conversation doesn't get buried in test output and iteration noise. When it's done you get a clean before/after delta and a publish offer if you invoked it standalone. Most useful when your verify pass rate is south of 80% or you just want to skip the manual cleanup round trip. Also works on any CLI already sitting in your local library, not just fresh generations.

skills.sh installs: 7.1K
GitHub stars: 4.9K
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

Install

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

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/printing-press-polish

Polish a generated CLI so it passes verification and is ready to publish.

The retro improves the Printing Press. Polish improves the generated CLI. This skill runs in a forked context (context: fork) so its diagnostic and fix loop doesn't pollute the caller — the diagnostic spam, fix iterations, and re-diagnose noise stay scoped to the polish session, and the caller receives a clean summary.

/printing-press-polish redfin
/printing-press-polish redfin-pp-cli
/printing-press-polish "$PRESS_LIBRARY/redfin"

When to run

After any /printing-press generation, especially when:

The shipcheck verdict is ship-with-gaps
The verify pass rate is below 80%
The scorecard is below 85
You want the CLI publish-ready in one pass

Can also be run standalone on any CLI in $PRESS_LIBRARY/.

Setup

# min-binary-version: 4.0.0

PRESS_HOME="${PRINTING_PRESS_HOME:-$HOME/printing-press}"
PRESS_LIBRARY="$PRESS_HOME/library"

SKILL.md on GitHub

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Details

Repository: github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
Categories: Documentation, Code Review & Quality, AI & Agent Building, Release Management, Debugging, CLI & Terminal
First seen: May 16, 2026

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