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Sync your Fathom meetings once, then search, analyze, and act on them forever — offline, at scale, without burning API quota. Trigger phrases: `what did I promise in my calls`, `how often has pricing come up in meetings`, `brief me on my Acme calls`, `which team members are in too many meetings`, `find a meeting where we discussed X`, `search my fathom meetings`, `use fathom`, `run fathom-pp-cli`.

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NPX Install

npx skill4agent add mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-fathom
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Fathom — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the
fathom-pp-cli
binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:
  1. Install via the Printing Press installer:
    bash
    npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install fathom --cli-only
  2. Verify:
    fathom-pp-cli --version
  3. Ensure
    $GOPATH/bin
    (or
    $HOME/go/bin
    ) is on
    $PATH
    .
If the
npx
install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.3 or newer):
bash
go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/productivity/fathom/cmd/fathom-pp-cli@latest
If
--version
reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on
$PATH
. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.
fathom-pp-cli pulls every meeting, transcript, summary, and action item into a local SQLite store, then unlocks cross-meeting intelligence no MCP server or web UI can provide: commitment tracking across all your calls, topic trend analysis over weeks, pre-call account briefs, pipeline velocity detection, and team meeting-load audits.

When to Use This CLI

Use fathom-pp-cli when you need cross-meeting intelligence that the Fathom web UI and MCP servers cannot provide: commiment audits across all calls, topic trend analysis over weeks or months, pre-call account briefs, or pipeline cadence monitoring. Run sync once per day to keep the local store current, then all analysis commands run offline. Not a substitute for the Fathom web UI for reviewing individual recordings or managing your account.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

  • commitments
    — See every open action item you promised across all calls — grouped by meeting, assignee, and date — without opening a single recording.
    Use when you need a weekly accountability audit of all meeting commitments before a 1:1 or team sync.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli commitments --assignee me --since 30d --agent
  • topics
    — Find out how often 'pricing,' 'onboarding,' or any keyword has surfaced in your meetings over the past N weeks — with week-over-week trend.
    Use before a board meeting or quarterly review to synthesize what themes have been dominating customer calls.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli topics --terms pricing,onboarding --weeks 12 --agent
  • velocity
    — Track whether your meeting cadence with a key account is accelerating, stable, or stalling — month by month.
    Use for pipeline health reviews: a stalling cadence with a key account is an early warning signal before the deal goes cold.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli velocity --domain stripe.com --months 6 --agent
  • workload
    — See which team members are spending the most hours in meetings per week and whether the load is worsening.
    Use in 1:1 prep or team planning to identify who is in 'meeting hell' before assigning more collaborative work.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli workload --team Engineering --weeks 4 --threshold 15 --agent

Agent-native plumbing

  • brief
    — Get a chronological history of every meeting with a specific person or company — past topics, open action items, last contact date — before you join a call.
    Use immediately before a customer call to surface prior commitments and context without opening multiple browser tabs.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli brief --domain acme.com --agent
  • account
    — View a complete, domain-keyed history with any company: every meeting, topics discussed, action items, and cadence — in one structured output.
    Use during account reviews, renewal prep, or CRM updates to get a full picture of all interactions with a company.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli account --domain notion.so --agent

Operational tooling

  • stale
    — Find recordings that were captured but have no transcript, summary, or action items synced — useful for operators debugging pipeline gaps.
    Use on Monday morning to audit which recordings from last week are missing data before your team needs them.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli stale --since 7d --agent
  • crm-gaps
    — Surface CRM-matched meetings where no action items were logged — calls that touched active deals but left no paper trail.
    Use in RevOps audits to find sales calls where reps talked to prospects but forgot to log next steps in the CRM.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli crm-gaps --since 30d --agent
  • coverage
    — Track how reliably a recurring meeting (weekly planning, standup, 1:1) is being recorded over time.
    Use to verify that mandatory-record meetings are actually being captured before auditing team performance.
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli coverage --pattern 'Weekly Planning' --weeks 10 --agent

Command Reference

meetings — Meeting recordings with transcripts, summaries, and action items
  • fathom-pp-cli meetings
    — List meetings with optional filters and included data
recordings — Individual recording data: transcripts and summaries
  • fathom-pp-cli recordings get-summary
    — Get AI-generated meeting summary in markdown format
  • fathom-pp-cli recordings get-transcript
    — Get full transcript for a recording with speaker attribution and timestamps
team-members — Members of your teams
  • fathom-pp-cli team-members
    — List team members, optionally filtered by team name
teams — Teams your account has access to
  • fathom-pp-cli teams
    — List all teams accessible to your account
webhooks — Webhooks for async meeting completion notifications
  • fathom-pp-cli webhooks create
    — Create a webhook to receive meeting data on completion
  • fathom-pp-cli webhooks delete
    — Delete a webhook by ID

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:
bash
fathom-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"
which
resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code
0
means at least one match; exit code
2
means no confident match — fall back to
--help
or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Export local store for use on another machine

bash
# Export all synced meetings to JSONL (one record per line)
fathom-pp-cli db export --format jsonl --output ~/fathom-backup.jsonl

# Export as SQLite file
fathom-pp-cli db export --format sqlite --output ~/fathom-backup.db

# Restore on another machine (no API calls, no re-sync needed)
fathom-pp-cli db restore --format jsonl --input ~/fathom-backup.jsonl
fathom-pp-cli db restore --format sqlite --input ~/fathom-backup.db
Pure local operation — reads from SQLite, writes to file. Run
sync --full
once, then export and share. On the new machine: install
fathom-pp-cli
, set
FATHOM_PP_CLI_API_KEY
, restore from the file, and all commands work offline immediately.

Find a meeting by topic or keyword

bash
fathom-pp-cli search "data pipeline clearpack" --limit 5
fathom-pp-cli search "joey action items" --json --select title,date,url,snippet
Full-text search across all synced transcripts, summaries, action items, and titles. Returns ranked results with highlighted snippet showing where the term matched. Searches offline — no API quota. Run
sync --full
first.

Pre-call brief for a customer

bash
fathom-pp-cli brief --domain acme.com --agent --select meetings.title,meetings.date,open_action_items
Pull all history with Acme before joining a call — past topics, open commitments, last meeting date.

Weekly commitment audit

bash
fathom-pp-cli commitments --since 7d --agent --select meeting_title,description,assignee.name,completed
Surface every action item from last week's calls, grouped by meeting — know what's still open before Monday standup.

Topic trend for board prep

bash
fathom-pp-cli topics --terms 'pricing,churn,roadmap' --weeks 12 --agent
Show week-over-week frequency of key themes across all customer calls for the past quarter.

Pipeline velocity check

bash
fathom-pp-cli velocity --domain acme.com --months 6 --agent
See whether your meeting cadence with Acme has been increasing, flat, or stalling — early warning for deals going cold.

Team meeting load audit

bash
fathom-pp-cli workload --team Engineering --weeks 4 --threshold 15 --agent --select name,weekly_hours,trend
Find which engineers are spending over 15h/week in meetings and whether it's getting worse.

Auth Setup

Fathom uses an API key passed via the X-Api-Key header. Generate one at fathom.video → User Settings → API Access. Set FATHOM_PP_CLI_API_KEY in your environment, then run doctor to verify.
Run
fathom-pp-cli doctor
to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add
--agent
to any command. Expands to:
--json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes
.
  • Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr
  • Filterable
    --select
    keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli meetings --agent --select id,name,status
  • Previewable
    --dry-run
    shows the request without sending
  • Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
  • Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag
  • Explicit retries — use
    --idempotent
    only when an already-existing create should count as success, and
    --ignore-missing
    only when a missing delete target should count as success

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:
json
{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}
Parse
.results
for data and
.meta.source
to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable
N results (live)
summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:
fathom-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
fathom-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
fathom-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10
Entries are stored locally at
~/.fathom-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl
. They are never POSTed unless
FATHOM_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT
is set AND either
--send
is passed or
FATHOM_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true
. Default behavior is local-only.
Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts
--deliver <sink>
. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:
SinkEffect
stdout
Default; write to stdout only
file:<path>
Atomically write output to
<path>
(tmp + rename)
webhook:<url>
POST the output body to the URL (
application/json
or
application/x-ndjson
when
--compact
)
Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.
fathom-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
fathom-pp-cli --profile briefing meetings
fathom-pp-cli profile list --json
fathom-pp-cli profile show briefing
fathom-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes
Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults.
agent-context
lists all available profiles under
available_profiles
so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

CodeMeaning
0Success
2Usage error (wrong arguments)
3Resource not found
4Authentication required
5API error (upstream issue)
7Rate limited (wait and retry)
10Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse
$ARGUMENTS
:
  1. Empty,
    help
    , or
    --help
    → show
    fathom-pp-cli --help
    output
  2. Starts with
    install
    → ends with
    mcp
    → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
  3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with
    --agent
    )

MCP Server Installation

  1. Install the MCP server:
    bash
    go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/productivity/fathom/cmd/fathom-pp-mcp@latest
  2. Register with Claude Code:
    bash
    claude mcp add fathom-pp-mcp -- fathom-pp-mcp
  3. Verify:
    claude mcp list

Direct Use

  1. Check if installed:
    which fathom-pp-cli
    If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
  2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
  3. Execute with the
    --agent
    flag:
    bash
    fathom-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
  4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help:
    fathom-pp-cli <command> --help
    .