Agent skill

Pp Catasto

by mvanhorn in mvanhorn/printing-press-library

The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,...

Apache-2.0Auto-check: notes

Install Pp Catasto

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-catasto --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-catasto .claude/skills/pp-catasto && 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-catasto
GitHub stars
2.1k
Token cost
~2.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,178 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
506
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,...

  • Works in 3 steps: Install via the Printing Press… → Verify: catasto-pp-cli --version → Ensure the reported install directory is…
  • Phrases: convert cadastral to GPS
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites: Install the CLI, When to Use This CLI, When Not to Use This CLI and Unique Capabilities, plus 11 more sections
  • Calls claude, npx and go

What it does

Pp Catasto is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,... Trigger phrases: convert cadastral to GPS, Italian cadastre lookup, particella to coordinates, comune foglio particella, reverse geocode Italian parcel, use catasto, run catasto.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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: convert cadastral to GPS
  • Italian cadastre lookup
  • Particella to coordinates
  • Comune foglio particella

Example prompts

  • “/pp-catasto”

Requirements

  • 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: catasto-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:

    • claude
    • npx
    • go

    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 no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

Context cost

Pp Catasto loads about 2.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,178 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.8k

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). 1,178 words, ~2,812 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pp-catasto/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pp-catasto
description
The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,... Trigger phrases: `convert cadastral to GPS`, `Italian cadastre lookup`, `particella to coordinates`, `comune foglio particella`, `reverse geocode Italian parcel`, `use catasto`, `run catasto`.
allowed-tools
Read, Bash
author
Roberto Bissanti
license
Apache-2.0
argument-hint
<command> [args] | install cli|mcp
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
     This file is a verbatim mirror of library/other/catasto/SKILL.md,
     regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are
     silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
     See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->

Catasto — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the catasto-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 catasto --cli-only
  2. Verify: catasto-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/catasto/cmd/catasto-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.

Bridges Italian cadastral references (provincia / comune / foglio / particella) and WGS84 coordinates using the Agenzia delle Entrate public ajax endpoint plus the community-maintained ondata Parquet centroids. Produces JSON shapes that map cleanly onto downstream GIS pipelines. No credentials, no Python, no DuckDB — a single Go binary.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for this CLI whenever an agent needs to bridge Italian cadastral identifiers and geographic coordinates — real-estate due diligence, surveying preparation, GIS data enrichment, batch reverse-geocoding of address lists. It's the right tool when the work is offline-friendly, scriptable, or needs to be embedded in field laptops without Python/QGIS/DuckDB dependencies.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

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

Agent-native composability
  • gps — Resolve a WGS84 lon/lat point to its Italian cadastral parcel (province, comune, foglio, particella). Supports single-point and streaming batch mode.

    Reach for this when an agent has a coordinate (or list of coordinates) and needs to attach Italian cadastral references to it.

    bash
    catasto-pp-cli gps 12.4924 41.8902 --json
Local state that compounds
  • cadastral — Reverse lookup: given a comune codice belfiore + foglio + particella, return the WGS84 centroid coordinates. Powered by the ondata/dati_catastali Parquet dataset, cached locally on first use.

    The headline reverse-direction lookup; pair it with gps for full round-trip between paper cadastral titles and digital maps.

    bash
    catasto-pp-cli cadastral --comune H501 --foglio 508 --particella B --json
Field-work ergonomics
  • validate — Parse-only validator for cadastral references. Explains shape rules without hitting any API.

    Form-style flows and batch imports can short-circuit invalid input before burning an API call; agents use it as a guardrail.

    bash
    catasto-pp-cli validate --comune H501 --foglio 508 --particella B --json

Command Reference

lookup — Forward lookup: GPS coordinates to cadastral reference via the Agenzia delle Entrate public ajax endpoint.

  • catasto-pp-cli lookup — Resolve a WGS84 longitude/latitude point to the cadastral parcel it falls inside. Returns province code, comune...
Finding the right command

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

bash
catasto-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

Resolve a coordinate to a cadastral parcel
bash
catasto-pp-cli gps 12.4924 41.8902 --json --select SIGLA_PROV,COD_COMUNE,FOGLIO,NUM_PART

Forward lookup for a single point with narrowed JSON output for agent consumption.

Batch reverse-geocode coordinates from stdin
bash
catasto-pp-cli gps --stdin --json

Stream lon,lat pairs (one per line, CSV-compatible) and emit one JSON object per row with the input echoed alongside the result. Points outside Italy are flagged inline rather than aborting the stream.

Reverse-lookup a cadastral reference
<!-- PATCH: Make the Comune/Foglio/Particella -> GPS workflow explicit for agents. -->
bash
catasto-pp-cli cadastral --comune M011 --foglio 2 --particella 2 --agent

Geolocalizza una particella catastale da Comune + Foglio + Particella, restituendo coordinate GPS WGS84 (lon, lat) del centroide. --comune accetta sia codice Belfiore sia nome umano; quando usi il nome, aggiungi --provincia se il comune e' ambiguo:

bash
catasto-pp-cli cadastral --comune "Roma" --provincia RM --foglio 508 --particella B --agent

Resolves codice belfiore/name + foglio + particella to a WGS84 centroid via the ondata Parquet dataset. First call in a region downloads and caches the file.

Validate references before importing a spreadsheet
bash
catasto-pp-cli validate --comune H501 --foglio 508 --particella B --json

Free, deterministic syntax check. Exits 2 on invalid input with a JSON report of every problem.

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run catasto-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

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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
    catasto-pp-cli lookup --op example-value --lon 42 --lat 42 --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.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.catasto-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless CATASTO_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or CATASTO_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.

catasto-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
catasto-pp-cli --profile briefing lookup --op example-value --lon 42 --lat 42
catasto-pp-cli profile list --json
catasto-pp-cli profile show briefing
catasto-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
5API error (upstream issue)
7Rate limited (wait and retry)
10Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  1. Empty, help, or --help → show catasto-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

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

bash
claude mcp add catasto-pp-mcp -- catasto-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

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

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Files

Just SKILL.md in cli-skills/pp-catasto of mvanhorn/printing-press-library.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 76de244

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Questions about Pp Catasto

What does Pp Catasto do?

The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,... Pp Catasto is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. The free, single-binary Italian cadastre CLI — converts between cadastral references and GPS, online or offline,...

When should I use Pp Catasto?

Pp Catasto fits situations like: phrases: convert cadastral to GPS; italian cadastre lookup; particella to coordinates; comune foglio particella.

How do I install Pp Catasto in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Pp Catasto in Codex?

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

Can I use Pp Catasto 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-catasto -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-catasto, .gemini/skills/pp-catasto, .github/skills/pp-catasto and .opencode/skills/pp-catasto in your project.

What does Pp Catasto need to run?

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

Does Pp Catasto 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 Catasto 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 Catasto use?

Pp Catasto 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 Catasto use?

About 2.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k 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 Catasto?

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Who maintains Pp Catasto?

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.