Table Reservation GOAT — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the

table-reservation-goat-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 table-reservation-goat --cli-only

Verify:
```
table-reservation-goat-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.

OpenTable and Tock split the US fine-dining world between them and share zero data. This CLI unifies them:

goat

searches both at once,

watch

polls both for cancellations,

earliest

composes availability across both, and

drift

surfaces what changed at a venue since your last look. Auth is one

auth login --chrome

import — your real Chrome cookies for both sites, no partner keys.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI any time a user or agent needs to search, compare, watch, or book across OpenTable and Tock together — and especially for multi-venue questions ('soonest table at any of these'), cancellation hunting, or tracking changes at a specific venue. For single-network simple lookups, the official site UI is faster.

Unique Capabilities

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

Cross-network ground truth

goat
— One query across OpenTable and Tock simultaneously, ranked by relevance, earliest availability, and price band.
When a user asks an agent to find a table, this is the single command that searches both reservation networks and returns structured ranked results — agents do not need to know which network covers which restaurant.
bash
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli goat 'tasting menu chicago' --party 2 --when 'this weekend' --agent --select results.name,results.network,results.earliest_slot,results.price_band
```
earliest
— Across a list of restaurants from either network, return the earliest open slot per venue within a time horizon.
When a user gives an agent a shortlist of venues and wants the soonest opportunity, this is the right shape — one structured response with one row per venue across both networks.
bash
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli earliest 'alinea,le-bernardin,smyth,atomix' --party 4 --within 21d --agent --select earliest.venue,earliest.network,earliest.slot_at,earliest.attributes
```

Local state that compounds

watch
— Persistent local watcher that polls both networks for openings on your target venues and party size, with notifications and optional auto-book.
Resy's Notify covers Resy only; tockstalk covers Tock only; restaurant-mcp's snipe covers Resy+OT only. None covers both networks; none persists state. Use this when an agent or user needs a hot reservation that isn't currently available.
bash
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch add 'le-bernardin' --party 2 --window 'Fri 7-9pm' --notify slack
```
drift
— Show what changed at a specific venue since the last sync — new experiences, slot price moves, hours changes.
Hot-target deep-watch: when an agent or user is hunting one venue, drift surfaces every meaningful change since the last look.
bash
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli drift alinea --since '2026-04-01' --agent
```

Command Reference

availability — Check open reservation slots across OpenTable and Tock

```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli availability check
```
— Check open slots for a restaurant on a specific date and party size
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli availability multi-day
```
— Multi-day availability for a single restaurant — Mon-Sun matrix

restaurants — Search and inspect restaurants across OpenTable and Tock

```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli restaurants get
```
— Get a restaurant's full detail — hours, address, cuisine, price band, photos, accolades
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli restaurants list
```
— List restaurants across OpenTable and Tock; filter by location, cuisine, price band, accolades, and party size

watch — Persistent local cancellation watcher across both networks

```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch add
```
— Register a watch for a venue, party size, and time window

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch list

— List active watches

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch cancel

— Cancel a watch by id

```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch tick
```
— Run one polling tick across all active watches (for cron / agents)

Finding the right command

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

bash

table-reservation-goat-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

Headline omakase search across both networks (agent-shaped)

bash

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli goat 'omakase manhattan' --party 2 --when 'this fri 7-9pm' --agent --select results.name,results.network,results.earliest_slot,results.price_band,results.attributes

Single command, ranked merged output with the deeply-nested fields agents actually need — narrows a multi-KB response to five columns.

Watch one Tock-only and one OT-only venue at the same party size

bash

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch add 'alinea' --party 2 --window 'sat 7-9pm' --notify local && table-reservation-goat-pp-cli watch add 'le-bernardin' --party 2 --window 'sat 7-9pm' --notify local

Two watches, one local store, one polling daemon — the printer handles both networks via per-source adaptive limiters.

Soonest table among my shortlist

bash

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli earliest 'narisawa,sushi-saito,den,florilege' --party 2 --within 14d --agent --select earliest.venue,earliest.network,earliest.slot_at

One row per venue with the soonest slot, sortable by slot time. Agents pipe into a planner without re-querying.

Watched venue: what changed in the last week

bash

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli drift alinea --since 7d --agent

Snapshot diff at a single venue — new experiences, slot price moves, hours changes — exactly what hot-target hunters need.

Headline search, then check live availability for the top hit

bash

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli goat 'le bernardin' --party 2 --json | jq -r '.results[0] | (.network + ":" + .slug)' | xargs -I{} table-reservation-goat-pp-cli availability check {} --party 2 --date "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"

Compose the cross-network search with a follow-up live availability check —

goat

returns the best matched venue,

availability check

then queries OpenTable or Tock directly for open slots on that venue and date.

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run

table-reservation-goat-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
```
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli restaurants list --agent --select id,name,neighborhood,price_band
```
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:

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

Entries are stored locally at

~/.table-reservation-goat-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl

. They are never POSTed unless

TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT

is set AND either

--send

is passed or

TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_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.

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli --profile briefing restaurants list
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli profile list --json
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli profile show briefing
table-reservation-goat-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
5	API error (upstream issue)
7	Rate limited (wait and retry)
10	Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse

$ARGUMENTS

Empty,
help
, or
--help
→ show

table-reservation-goat-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 binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

bash

claude mcp add table-reservation-goat-pp-mcp -- table-reservation-goat-pp-mcp

Verify:

claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed:
```
which table-reservation-goat-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

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help:

table-reservation-goat-pp-cli <command> --help

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SKILL.md Content

Table Reservation GOAT — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

When to Use This CLI

Unique Capabilities

Cross-network ground truth

Local state that compounds

Command Reference

Finding the right command

Recipes

Headline omakase search across both networks (agent-shaped)

Watch one Tock-only and one OT-only venue at the same party size

Soonest table among my shortlist

Watched venue: what changed in the last week

Headline search, then check live availability for the top hit

Auth Setup

Agent Mode

Response envelope

Agent Feedback

Output Delivery

Named Profiles

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

MCP Server Installation

Direct Use