Skool — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the

skool-pp-cli

binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer:

bash

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install skool --cli-only

Verify:
```
skool-pp-cli --version
```
Ensure
```
$GOPATH/bin
```
(or
```
$HOME/go/bin
```
) is on
```
$PATH
```
.

If the

npx

install fails before this CLI has a public-library category, install Node or use the category-specific Go fallback after publish.

--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.

Community + course platform (skool.com). No public API — reverse-engineered from www.skool.com Next.js data routes (reads) and api2.skool.com REST (writes), authenticated via the auth_token JWT cookie.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when you operate or moderate a Skool community and need analytics, exports, or automation that the native UI cannot do — classroom-to-markdown export, cross-community SQL, or scheduled digests for an agent.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

posts top
— Rank recent posts by upvotes, comments, or engagement and return them with full content.
Pick this for a daily/weekly cron that surfaces the 3-5 most-engaging posts from any community — perfect for catching up without scrolling.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli posts top --community earlyaidopters --since 7d --top 5 --by engagement --json
```
leaderboard
— Top members by points for the community, with level and bio fields included.
Pick this when an agent needs the current community leaderboard in one call without scraping the page.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli leaderboard --community bewarethedefault --top 25 --json
```
digest since
— Aggregate everything new across posts, comments, members, and lessons since a timestamp.
Pick this when an agent needs a single brief of community activity for a daily/weekly cron.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli digest since 24h --json
```
sql
— Run read-only SQL across every community in your local store.
Pick this when an agent needs to compose a query across multiple Skool communities you own or operate.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli sql 'SELECT community, COUNT(*) FROM posts GROUP BY community'
```

Agent-native plumbing

calendar export
— Export upcoming community events to an .ics file for Google Cal / Outlook.
Pick this when a member wants community events on their personal calendar without manual entry.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli calendar export --ics > community.ics
```
classroom export
— Export an entire course to a markdown bundle (modules, lessons, attachments, video URLs).
Pick this when an agent needs to ingest a course for offline reference, search, or LLM retrieval.
bash
```
skool-pp-cli classroom export <course-slug> --out ./course/
```

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Command Reference

calendar — Community calendar events

```
skool-pp-cli calendar <buildId>
```
— List upcoming and recent calendar events

classroom — Classroom (courses, modules, lessons) for a community

```
skool-pp-cli classroom get-course
```
— Get a single course with its modules and lessons
```
skool-pp-cli classroom list
```
— List all courses in a community

community — Community feed, settings, and metadata

```
skool-pp-cli community about
```
— About page (rules, owner, member count)
```
skool-pp-cli community info
```
— Get the community feed (posts, leaderboard summary, upcoming events, settings)
```
skool-pp-cli community leaderboard-tab
```
— Leaderboard tab (community page rendered with t=leaderboard)
```
skool-pp-cli community members-tab
```
— Members tab data (community page rendered with t=members)

me — Current authenticated user dashboard

```
skool-pp-cli me <buildId>
```
— Get current user, joined communities, and dashboard state

members — Community members and moderation

```
skool-pp-cli members approve
```
— Approve a pending member request
```
skool-pp-cli members ban
```
— Ban a member from the community
```
skool-pp-cli members pending
```
— List pending member join requests
```
skool-pp-cli members reject
```
— Reject a pending member request

notifications — User notifications

```
skool-pp-cli notifications list
```
— List notifications for the authenticated user
```
skool-pp-cli notifications mark-read
```
— Mark notifications as read (empty ids = mark all)

posts — Posts (forum threads) inside a community

```
skool-pp-cli posts comment
```
— Add a comment to a post
```
skool-pp-cli posts create
```
— Create a new post (body = TipTap JSON; use --md to convert markdown)
```
skool-pp-cli posts delete
```
— Delete a post
```
skool-pp-cli posts get
```
— Get a post detail page including comment tree
```
skool-pp-cli posts like
```
— Like (upvote) a post
```
skool-pp-cli posts unlike
```
— Unlike a post
```
skool-pp-cli posts update
```
— Update an existing post

Freshness Contract

This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In

--data-source auto

mode, those paths check

sync_state

and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data.

--data-source local

never refreshes.

--data-source live

reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set

SKOOL_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1

to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection.

Covered paths:

```
skool-pp-cli notifications
```
```
skool-pp-cli notifications list
```
```
skool-pp-cli notifications mark-read
```

When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at

meta.freshness

. Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment.

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

bash

skool-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

means at least one match; exit code

means no confident match — fall back to

--help

or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Daily digest cron

bash

skool-pp-cli sync bewarethedefault && skool-pp-cli digest since 24h --json --select new_posts,new_members,top_comments

One sync + one query. Pipes cleanly to a scheduled agent that drafts a Slack/email digest.

Export a course to markdown

bash

skool-pp-cli classroom export ai-foundations --out ./ai-foundations/

Recursive walk: modules → lessons → attachments + Mux URLs. One folder per course, ready for LLM ingestion.

Cross-community engagement SQL

bash

skool-pp-cli sql 'SELECT community, COUNT(*) AS posts_30d FROM posts WHERE created_at > date("now","-30 days") GROUP BY community ORDER BY posts_30d DESC'

Read-only SQL over the local store. Works across every community you have synced.

Top 10 leaderboard

bash

skool-pp-cli leaderboard --community bewarethedefault --top 10 --json

Current 30-day leaderboard. Members with rank, points, level, bio fields.

Multi-community use

The CLI supports any Skool community you're a member of — the

auth_token

cookie covers all communities you're logged into globally. Switch communities via the

--community <slug>

flag on any command, or change the default in

~/.config/skool-pp-cli/config.toml

under

[template_vars]

bash

# Default community from config
skool-pp-cli digest since 24h

# Override per call
skool-pp-cli digest since 24h --community early-ai-adopters --json
skool-pp-cli leaderboard --community some-other-community --top 10

# Sync multiple communities into one local store (each row gets a community tag)
skool-pp-cli sync --community bewarethedefault
skool-pp-cli sync --community early-ai-adopters

# Cross-community SQL once both are synced
skool-pp-cli sql "SELECT community, resource_type, COUNT(*) FROM resources GROUP BY community, resource_type"

# Bash one-liner: daily digest across N communities
for c in bewarethedefault early-ai-adopters another-community; do
  skool-pp-cli digest since 24h --community $c --json --select community,new_post_count,new_posts >> ~/skool-daily-digest.jsonl
done

The community-tagged store is the foundation for the v0.3 cross-community analytics commands (at-risk members, churn cohort, engagement profile across communities).

Auth Setup

Skool has no public API. Authenticate with the auth_token JWT cookie from your logged-in browser session:

skool-pp-cli auth set-token

(writes ~/.config/skool-pp-cli/config.toml). Same cookie covers reads and writes; CloudFront requires a realistic User-Agent which the CLI sets automatically.

Run

skool-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
```
skool-pp-cli calendar mock-value --community example-value --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:

skool-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
skool-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
skool-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at

~/.skool-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl

. They are never POSTed unless

SKOOL_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT

is set AND either

--send

is passed or

SKOOL_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:

Sink	Effect
`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.

skool-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
skool-pp-cli --profile briefing calendar mock-value --community example-value
skool-pp-cli profile list --json
skool-pp-cli profile show briefing
skool-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

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

Argument Parsing

Parse

$ARGUMENTS

Empty,
help
, or
--help
→ show
```
skool-pp-cli --help
```
output
Starts with
install
→ ends with
```
mcp
```
→ MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with
```
--agent
```
)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP server:

bash

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/other/skool/cmd/skool-pp-mcp@latest

bash

claude mcp add skool-pp-mcp -- skool-pp-mcp

Verify:
```
claude mcp list
```

Direct Use

Check if installed:
```
which skool-pp-cli
```
If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.

Execute with the

--agent

flag:

bash

skool-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help:
```
skool-pp-cli <command> --help
```
.

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SKILL.md Content

Skool — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

When to Use This CLI

Unique Capabilities

Local state that compounds

Agent-native plumbing

HTTP Transport

Command Reference

Freshness Contract

Finding the right command

Recipes

Daily digest cron

Export a course to markdown

Cross-community engagement SQL

Top 10 leaderboard

Multi-community use

Top posts by engagement (signal in the noise)

Auth Setup

Agent Mode

Response envelope

Agent Feedback

Output Delivery

Named Profiles

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

MCP Server Installation

Direct Use