Agent skill

Pp Benzinga

by mvanhorn in mvanhorn/printing-press-library

Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server.

Apache-2.0Auto-check: notesBackend & APIs

Install Pp Benzinga

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-benzinga -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-benzinga --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-benzinga .claude/skills/pp-benzinga && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
pp-benzinga
GitHub stars
2.1k
Token cost
~6k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,591 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
506
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server.

  • Works in 3 steps: Install via the Printing Press… → Verify: benzinga-pp-cli --version → Ensure the reported install directory is…
  • Phrases: benzinga analyst ratings for AAPL
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites: Install the CLI, When to Use This CLI, Anti-triggers and Unique Capabilities, plus 12 more sections
  • Calls go, claude and npx; needs BENZINGA_API_KEY

What it does

Pp Benzinga is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server. Trigger phrases: benzinga analyst ratings for AAPL, what changed on my watchlist, why is NVDA moving, this week's earnings calendar, unusual options activity, economic calendar this week, use benzinga, run benzinga.

Its SKILL.md is about 6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Search implementation. It works with Model Context Protocol and SQLite. The repository describes itself as: Official library of CLIs generated by the CLI Printing Press. Endorsed, tested, and community-contributed. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Phrases: benzinga analyst ratings for AAPL
  • What changed on my watchlist
  • Why is NVDA moving
  • This weeks earnings calendar

Example prompts

  • “/pp-benzinga”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Node.js
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and…
  2. Verify: benzinga-pp-cli --version
  3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 76de244. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Bash

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • go
    • claude
    • npx

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • BENZINGA_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Pp Benzinga loads about 6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,591 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~109
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mvanhorn/printing-press-library at commit 76de244, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mvanhorn). 2,591 words, ~5,982 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pp-benzinga/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pp-benzinga
description
Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server. Trigger phrases: `benzinga analyst ratings for AAPL`, `what changed on my watchlist`, `why is NVDA moving`, `this week's earnings calendar`, `unusual options activity`, `economic calendar this week`, `use benzinga`, `run benzinga`.
allowed-tools
Read, Bash
author
waveriderai
license
Apache-2.0
argument-hint
<command> [args] | install cli|mcp
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Benzinga — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the benzinga-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. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:
    bash
    npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install benzinga --cli-only
  2. Verify: benzinga-pp-cli --version
  3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.4 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

bash
go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/other/benzinga/cmd/benzinga-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Benzinga's licensed financial-data API is powerful but fragmented across ~60 endpoints and has only one complete client — a Python library with no CLI, no offline store, and no agent surface. This CLI covers the full documented REST surface as first-class commands, delta-syncs the calendar/news/signal families into a local database via the API's own updated cursors, and adds cross-entity commands the REST API cannot express in one call: watch a ticker set for overnight changes, explain why one name is moving, and rank analysts by accuracy.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or user needs Benzinga financial data — analyst ratings, earnings/economic/dividend calendars, breaking news, fundamentals, unusual options and other signals — as structured JSON, or when they want cross-entity views (overnight watchlist changes, a single-ticker catalyst timeline, analyst accuracy) that no single Benzinga endpoint provides. It is also the right choice for offline full-text search over synced news and calendar data.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

  • Do not use this CLI for real-time tick/quote streaming or Squawk audio — it covers REST + delayed data, not the WebSocket/TCP live feeds.
  • Do not use it to place trades or manage a brokerage account — Benzinga is data-only.
  • Do not use it for tickers or products outside your Benzinga license; gated endpoints return 403 by design.
  • Do not use it as a general stock-price API for unlimited free quotes — every endpoint requires a paid Benzinga token.

Unique Capabilities

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

Cross-entity local state
  • watch — See everything that changed on your tickers since you last looked — new ratings, price-target moves, breaking news, and signals in one diff.

    Reach for this when an agent needs a single 'what moved on my names' digest instead of fanning out across ratings, news, and signals endpoints.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli watch AAPL,NVDA,TSLA --since 24h --agent
  • why — Build one time-ordered catalyst timeline for a ticker by merging unusual options, block trades, halts, rating changes, and news.

    Use when the question is 'why is X moving right now' and the answer needs options + halts + ratings + headlines stitched in order.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli why NVDA --window 1d --agent
  • catalysts — One forward-dated agenda per ticker set unioning earnings, dividends, splits, IPOs, FDA dates, conference calls, guidance, and offerings.

    Reach for this to get every upcoming dated event on a watchlist in one ordered list rather than querying eight calendar endpoints.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli catalysts AAPL,LLY,MRNA --ahead 14d --agent
  • insider-cluster — Flag tickers where several distinct members of Congress filed purchases within a window — cluster detection beyond a single disclosure.

    Use to surface conviction signals where multiple unrelated members of Congress bought the same name, not just one routine filing.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli insider-cluster --window 30d --min 3 --agent
Analyst signal quality
  • analyst-accuracy — Rank rating-issuing firms and analysts by Benzinga's historical accuracy, and tag today's rating changes with the issuer's hit rate.

    Use when an agent must judge whether a fresh upgrade/downgrade comes from an analyst with a real track record.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli analyst-accuracy --ticker AAPL --agent
Earnings intelligence
  • earnings-season — Compute EPS and revenue beat/miss and surprise % from the earnings calendar and link each name to its conference call and transcript.

    Reach for this during earnings season to rank the week's reports by surprise magnitude with calls/transcripts attached.

    bash
    benzinga-pp-cli earnings-season --from 7d --agent --select ticker,eps_surprise_pct,beat

Command Reference

analyst — Manage analyst

  • benzinga-pp-cli analyst — Returns analyst insights and research perspectives on securities

bars — Manage bars

  • benzinga-pp-cli bars — Retrieves historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) price bar data for specified securities.

bulls-bears-say — Manage bulls bears say

  • benzinga-pp-cli bulls-bears-say — Returns the latest bullish and bearish investment cases for a given stock ticker symbol.

calendar — Manage calendar

  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-conference-calls — Returns Conference call data for a selected period and/or security.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-dividends — Returns dividends data for a selected period and/or security.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-dividends-v22 — Returns dividends data for a selected period and/or security, including both confirmed and unconfirmed dividend dates.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-earnings — Returns earnings data for a selected period and/or security.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-economics — Returns economic calendar data including economic indicators, releases, and reports from various countries.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-events — Returns corporate events including investor meetings, conferences, and special announcements
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-fda — Returns FDA approvals, clinical trials, and PDUFA (Prescription Drug User Fee Act)
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-guidance — Returns company guidance data including forward-looking earnings and revenue projections provided by company management.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ipos-v2 — Returns Initial Public Offering (IPO) data including pricing information, underwriters, deal status
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ipos-v21 — Returns Initial Public Offering (IPO) data including pricing information, underwriters, deal status
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ma — Returns mergers and acquisitions (M&A) data including deal announcements, completions
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-offerings — Returns secondary offering data for public companies issuing additional shares after their IPO.
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ratings — Returns analyst ratings data including upgrades, downgrades, initiations
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ratings-analysts — Returns the full list of analysts that are providing ratings
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-ratings-firms — Returns the available firms providing analyst ratings
  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-splits — Returns stock split data including split ratios, announcement dates, ex-dates, and distribution dates.

calendar-removed — Manage calendar removed

  • benzinga-pp-cli calendar-removed — Returns calendar events that have been removed or cancelled from the specified event types

consensus-ratings — Manage consensus ratings

  • benzinga-pp-cli consensus-ratings — Returns aggregated consensus analyst ratings data for a given ticker symbol.

erx-gaps — Manage erx gaps

  • benzinga-pp-cli erx-gaps — Returns earnings reaction gap data, which tracks significant price gaps following earnings announcements

fundamentals — Manage fundamentals

  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-alpha-beta-v21 — Retrieve Alpha and Beta metrics for specified symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-asset-classification-v21 — Retrieve asset classification details for specified symbols, including sector, industry
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-balance-sheet-v3 — Retrieve balance sheet data for specified symbols. Includes assets, liabilities, and equity details.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-company-profile-v21 — Retrieves comprehensive company profile information including business description, industry classification
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-company-v21 — Retrieves detailed company-specific financial data including key metrics, operational statistics
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-derived-figures-and-ratios-v3 — Retrieve derived financial figures and ratios for a list of symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-earning-ratios-v21 — Retrieve earning ratios for a list of symbols. Includes metrics like P/E ratio, EPS, and other earnings-related ratios.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-earnings-reports-v21 — Retrieves detailed earnings reports for specified securities including revenue, earnings per share (EPS), EBITDA
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-income-statement-v3 — Retrieves comprehensive income statement data for specified securities.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-operation-ratios-v21 — Retrieve operation ratios for a list of symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-share-price-ratios-v3 — Retrieve share price ratios for specified symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-v2 — Retrieves comprehensive financial fundamentals data for specified securities.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-v21 — Retrieves enhanced financial fundamentals data for specified securities.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-v3 — Retrieves the latest generation of financial fundamentals data powered by Benzinga's enhanced data pipeline.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals get-valuation-ratios-v21 — Retrieve valuation ratios for a list of symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals list — Retrieve financial statements for specified symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals list-cashflow — Retrieve detailed cash flow statement data for specified symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals list-shareclass — Retrieve share class information for specific symbols.
  • benzinga-pp-cli fundamentals list-shareclassprofile — Retrieve profile information for share classes

gov — Manage gov

  • benzinga-pp-cli gov get-government-trade-reports — Returns detailed government trade disclosure reports including periodic transaction reports filed by congressional
  • benzinga-pp-cli gov get-government-trades — Returns government official trades including transactions by members of the US House and Senate

logos — Manage logos

  • benzinga-pp-cli logos bulk-sync — Bulk logos sync.
  • benzinga-pp-cli logos get-search — Search Logos

market — Manage market

  • benzinga-pp-cli market — Retrieves market movers data based on specified filters.

news — Manage news

  • benzinga-pp-cli news get — This REST API returns structured data for news.
  • benzinga-pp-cli news get-channels — Returns a list of all available news channels that can be used to filter news items.

news-quantified — Manage news quantified

  • benzinga-pp-cli news-quantified — Quantitative news analytics: sentiment, volume ratios, and per-ticker price reactions (30s–120m). Filter with --symbols, --date/--date-from/--date-to, --updated-since.

news-removed — Manage news removed

  • benzinga-pp-cli news-removed — Returns the removed news data.

quote-delayed — Manage quote delayed

  • benzinga-pp-cli quote-delayed get-v1 — Get delayed quotes for a list of symbols, ISINs, or CIKs
  • benzinga-pp-cli quote-delayed get-v2 — Get delayed quotes for a list of symbols

search — Offline full-text search

  • benzinga-pp-cli search "<query>" — Search synced local data (or the logos search API in live/auto mode). Local query tokens are alphanumeric only (letters, digits, underscore); every token is required (implicit AND). FTS5 operators such as AND, OR, NOT and quoted phrases are not supported.

sec — Manage sec

  • benzinga-pp-cli sec get-insider-transaction — Returns insider transaction data from SEC Form 4 filings.
  • benzinga-pp-cli sec get-insider-transaction-owner — Returns information about insider transaction owners, including company officers, directors, and beneficial owners

shortinterest — Manage shortinterest

  • benzinga-pp-cli shortinterest — Retrieves short interest data for specified securities.

signal — Manage signal

  • benzinga-pp-cli signal get-block-trade-v1 — Returns block trade data, which includes unusually large trades that may indicate institutional trading activity
  • benzinga-pp-cli signal get-halt-resume-v1 — Returns trading halt and resume information for securities, including halt reasons and expected resumption times
  • benzinga-pp-cli signal get-option-activity-v1 — Returns unusual options activity data, including large or unusual options trades that may signal informed trading

trending-tickers — Manage trending tickers

  • benzinga-pp-cli trending-tickers get-ticker-trend-data — Retrieve trending data for specific tickers, including rank and change.
  • benzinga-pp-cli trending-tickers get-ticker-trend-list-data — Retrieve a list of trending tickers based on various metrics.

wiims — Manage wiims (Why Is It Moving)

  • benzinga-pp-cli wiims — Why Is It Moving (WIIM): concise structured explanations of why a security is moving, tagged to the affected tickers. Preset over the news feed's WIIM channel (GET /api/v2/news?channels=WIIM). Filter with --tickers, --date/--date-from/--date-to, --updated-since. Add --with-points to attach each ticker's delayed-quote move (price_move: [{ticker, points, percent, last}]) via /api/v1/quoteDelayed. Requires a WIIM-entitled Benzinga Pro token (market-data tokens return nothing); the same token covers --with-points. Complements why with editorial context.
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Finding the right command

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

bash
benzinga-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

Rank the week's earnings by surprise
bash
benzinga-pp-cli earnings-season --from 7d --agent --select ticker,eps_surprise_pct,beat

Computes beat/miss and surprise % offline from synced earnings rows and projects just the decision fields.

Explain a sudden move
bash
benzinga-pp-cli why NVDA --window 1d --agent

Stitches unusual options, halts, rating changes, and news for NVDA into one chronological catalyst timeline.

Morning watchlist diff
bash
benzinga-pp-cli watch AAPL,NVDA,TSLA --since 24h --agent --select ticker,kind,headline

Cross-entity diff of ratings, news, and signals on a ticker set, narrowed to the most relevant nested fields with --select.

Weekly US economic calendar
bash
benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-economics --country USA

Recent and latest macro releases for the US with actual vs consensus (country codes are 3-digit, e.g. USA).

Vet a rating change
bash
benzinga-pp-cli analyst-accuracy --ticker AAPL --today --agent

Ranks the firms/analysts issuing fresh AAPL ratings by their historical accuracy.

Auth Setup

Benzinga uses a static API token passed as a query parameter. Set BENZINGA_API_KEY in your environment (or run benzinga-pp-cli auth set-token) and every command attaches it as ?token=. Access is tier-gated per product, so a valid token can still return 403 on an endpoint your plan does not include — that is a licensing boundary, not a CLI bug.

Run benzinga-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
    benzinga-pp-cli calendar get-earnings --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

  • Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

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 AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.

Paths and state

Agents should treat the CLI's path resolver as part of the runtime contract:

  • Use --home <dir> for one invocation, or set BENZINGA_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

  • Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: BENZINGA_CONFIG_DIR, BENZINGA_DATA_DIR, BENZINGA_STATE_DIR, BENZINGA_CACHE_DIR.

  • Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, BENZINGA_HOME, XDG (XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME), then platform defaults.

  • config contains settings like config.toml and profiles. data contains credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, and auth sidecars. state contains persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log. cache contains regenerable HTTP/cache files.

  • Stored secrets live in credentials.toml under the data dir. Existing legacy config.toml secrets are read for compatibility and leave config.toml on the first auth write.

  • Run benzinga-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to surface path and credential-location warnings. agent-context exposes a schema v4 paths block for agents that need the resolved dirs.

  • For MCP, pass relocation through the MCP host config. The MCP binary does not inherit CLI flags:

    json
    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "benzinga": {
          "command": "benzinga-pp-mcp",
          "env": {
            "BENZINGA_HOME": "/srv/benzinga"
          }
        }
      }
    }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use BENZINGA_HOME or per-kind vars as durable fleet levers, and use --home only for a single invocation. Relocation is not reversible by unsetting env vars; move files manually before clearing BENZINGA_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

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

Entries are stored locally as feedback.jsonl under the resolved data dir. They are never POSTed unless BENZINGA_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or BENZINGA_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
stdoutDefault; 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.

benzinga-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
benzinga-pp-cli --profile briefing calendar get-earnings
benzinga-pp-cli profile list --json
benzinga-pp-cli profile show briefing
benzinga-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 benzinga-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/other/benzinga/cmd/benzinga-pp-mcp@latest
  2. Register with Claude Code:
    bash
    claude mcp add benzinga-pp-mcp -- benzinga-pp-mcp
  3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

  1. Check if installed: which benzinga-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
    benzinga-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
  4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: benzinga-pp-cli <command> --help.

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Questions about Pp Benzinga

What does Pp Benzinga do?

Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server. Pp Benzinga is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Every Benzinga calendar, news, fundamentals, and signal endpoint as a typed command — plus an offline SQLite store, full-text search, cross-entity queries, and the first Benzinga MCP server.

When should I use Pp Benzinga?

Pp Benzinga fits situations like: phrases: benzinga analyst ratings for AAPL; what changed on my watchlist; why is NVDA moving; this weeks earnings calendar.

How do I install Pp Benzinga in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-benzinga -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-benzinga in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .claude/skills/pp-benzinga in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pp Benzinga in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-benzinga -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-benzinga in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .agents/skills/pp-benzinga in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pp Benzinga in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-benzinga -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pp-benzinga, .gemini/skills/pp-benzinga, .github/skills/pp-benzinga and .opencode/skills/pp-benzinga in your project.

What does Pp Benzinga need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Pp Benzinga needs the command-line tools its instructions call (go, claude and npx) and credentials named BENZINGA_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Bash.

Does Pp Benzinga access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Pp Benzinga safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Pp Benzinga use?

Pp Benzinga is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Pp Benzinga use?

About 6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Pp Benzinga?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pp Benzinga: Remnic Search (joshuaswarren/remnic, 217 stars), Sealeap Tianlu Amazon AI Readable Title Structure (xjli360/sealeap-amazon-skills, 247 stars), MCP Server Builder (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars) and Engraph (devwhodevs/engraph, 171 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Pp Benzinga?

mvanhorn (a GitHub user) maintains it in mvanhorn/printing-press-library, which has 2,056 GitHub stars. The repository holds 506 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mvanhorn/printing-press-library on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.