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Bird — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the bird-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:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install bird --cli-only

2. Verify: bird-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 1.26.6 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/social-and-messaging/bird/cmd/bird-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.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for bird-pp-cli when an AI agent or operator needs to interact with a Bird workspace from a terminal: sending one-off transactional SMS, batching reminders with reconcile, triaging open conversations, auditing message delivery, or maintaining the workspace allow/block list. Prefer this over raw curl when you want offline search, agent-shaped JSON, or a single command that folds multiple Bird endpoints into one answer.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

• messages audit — Fold a message and its interactions into a chronological delivery timeline; exit non-zero on terminal failure.

  Use this when an agent needs a one-shot answer to 'did this SMS land?' with a non-zero exit on failure for pipeline gating.

  bird-pp-cli messages audit msg_123 --json

• messages failures — Aggregate recent message-interaction failures grouped by reason code.

  Reach for this before paging humans about an SMS outage — it tells you whether the failures are clustered (one bad number, one carrier) or spread.

  bird-pp-cli messages failures --since 24h --group-by reason --json

• sms search — Full-text search over message bodies, optionally filtered by sender or recipient phone number.

  Use when an agent needs to find a specific outbound SMS without scrolling pages of console output.

  bird-pp-cli sms search "order confirmation" --to +31612345678 --json

Send + reconcile

• sms send-batch — Send a batch of SMS messages from a CSV with per-row idempotency keys, persisting the batch in the local store for later reconcile.

  Use this for any batch larger than a handful of recipients where you need to know which ones failed afterward.

  bird-pp-cli sms send-batch --csv recipients.csv --body-template "Hi {{name}}, your code is {{code}}" --dry-run

• sms reconcile — Re-fetch delivery interactions for every message in a batch, group failures by reason, and optionally retry.

  Reach for this after every send-batch run — it answers 'how many landed?' and gives you a retry plan in one shot.

  bird-pp-cli sms reconcile batch_2026_05_10_a --retry-failed --json

Triage and reach

• conversations timeline — Render a conversation's messages, participants, and delivery interactions in canonical chronological order.

  Use when triaging a customer thread — one command shows the full back-and-forth plus per-outbound delivery state.

  bird-pp-cli conversations timeline conv_42 --json

• messages from — List every message exchanged with one phone number across all conversations.

  Use when an agent needs the complete back-and-forth with one customer regardless of which conversation it lived in.

  bird-pp-cli messages from +31612345678 --json

Compliance and onboarding

• tenant doctor — Run an SMS-tenant readiness checklist across channels, channel-config, anti-spam, compliance keywords, and messageability with a single exit code.

  Use during onboarding for a new workspace or when an existing tenant's outbound SMS suddenly drops to zero.

  bird-pp-cli tenant doctor --test-contact contact_42 --json

• compliance auto-block — Scan local inbound messages for STOP-keyword fires within a time window; emit a CSV ready for bulk-add (or apply directly).

  Use weekly to keep the workspace block list synchronized with customer opt-outs without writing a Python script.

  bird-pp-cli compliance auto-block --since 7d --json

Command Reference

channel-config — Per-channel Conversations API configuration

• bird-pp-cli channel-config get — Get the Conversations configuration for a channel
• bird-pp-cli channel-config update — Update Conversations configuration for a channel

channel-media — Channel-specific pre-signed media uploads

• bird-pp-cli channel-media <channel_id> — Create a channel-scoped pre-signed media upload URL

channels — SMS channels available in the workspace

• bird-pp-cli channels get — Get one channel by ID
• bird-pp-cli channels list — List channels in the workspace (filter --kind sms)
• bird-pp-cli channels messageability — Check whether a channel can message a given contact (the customer-service window probe)

compliance — Channel compliance keyword routing (HELP/STOP/START)

conversations — Manage Bird conversation threads (cross-channel customer interactions)

• bird-pp-cli conversations create — Start a new conversation
• bird-pp-cli conversations delete — Delete a conversation
• bird-pp-cli conversations get — Get one conversation by ID
• bird-pp-cli conversations list — List conversations across the workspace
• bird-pp-cli conversations update — Update a conversation (status, name, etc.)

media — Pre-signed media uploads for messages with attachments

• bird-pp-cli media — Create a workspace-wide pre-signed media upload URL

messages — Channel-level messages (the SMS send/receive layer)

• bird-pp-cli messages get — Get one message by ID
• bird-pp-cli messages interactions — List delivery-event interactions for a message (sent, delivered, read, failed)
• bird-pp-cli messages list — List messages on a channel (chronological)
• bird-pp-cli messages list-all — List messages across the workspace

participants — Workspace-wide participant lookup

• bird-pp-cli participants conversations — List conversations a participant belongs to (by participant ID)
• bird-pp-cli participants conversations-by-identifier — List conversations a participant belongs to (by identifier key and value)

sms — Programmable SMS send (the headline command)

• bird-pp-cli sms — Send an SMS message

workspace — Workspace-level configuration: anti-spam and allow/block rules

Finding the right command

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

bird-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

Bulk-send an OTP campaign with reconcile

bird-pp-cli sms send-batch --csv recipients.csv --body-template "Your code is {{code}}" --apply --json

Sends one SMS per CSV row with a deterministic idempotency key and persists the batch in the local store. The returned JSON includes the batchId; pass it to 'bird-pp-cli sms reconcile <batchId> --json' afterward to re-fetch delivery interactions and group failures by reason.