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CDC Pakistan — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the cdc-pakistan-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 cdc-pakistan --cli-only

2. Verify: cdc-pakistan-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). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/payments/cdc-pakistan/cmd/cdc-pakistan-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.

CDC publishes the sole per-security custody-penetration figures in the Pakistani market as split PDFs behind a bot challenge, with no API and no history endpoint. This CLI mints a browser clearance once, replays it over plain HTTP, and turns the downloads corpus into a queryable local store. coverage map proves what is mirrored, identity ledger stops symbol recycling from corrupting your return series, and eligibility state folds two decades of notices into a per-security lifecycle.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for this CLI when you need Pakistani custody-layer facts that exist nowhere else in machine-readable form: what share of a security's capital sits in the central depository, whether a symbol has been reused by a different issuer, or when a security entered or left CDS eligibility. It is also the right tool when you need to prove a local mirror is complete before running research on it.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI for holder-level or sub-account positions — CDC does not publish them, they require an individual investor's own login.
• Do not use it for the nine-class investor taxonomy that NCCPL and MUFAP publish — CDC exposes only Individual versus Corporate, at aggregate level.
• Do not use it for daily prices, volumes or index data — that is the PSX CLI's surface.
• Do not use it to determine whether a security is tradable today — CDS eligibility is a custody status, not a trading suspension.
• Do not ask it for a free-float time series — only one live vintage of the penetration report exists.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

• coverage map — See exactly which document buckets are mirrored, which are genuinely absent at source, and which were never asked for.

  Run this before trusting any other command's completeness; it is the only command that writes the document index.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli coverage map --category notices --agent

• identity ledger — Reconstruct a security's symbol, name and ISIN history so you never splice two different issuers into one return series.

  Reach for this before joining CDC data to any symbol-keyed price series; symbol recycling silently corrupts factor research.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli identity ledger --symbol LOTCHEM --agent

• stats history — Track the sixteen CDS aggregate metrics forward from your first sync, with archived rows labelled as such.

  Use to measure retail-participation growth; archived rows are non-contiguous and must never be read as a continuous series.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli stats history --metric sub_accounts_individual --agent

Twenty years of regulatory events

• eligibility state — Get a security's full CDS-eligibility history folded from twenty years of notices into a six-state lifecycle.

  Use for CDS-eligibility history, but note CDS eligibility is not the same as PSX trading suspension and is not a tradability gate.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli eligibility state --isin PK0069501016 --agent

Extraction you can trust

• verify rows — Prove the PDF extraction is trustworthy by asserting the report's own percentage column against its own share and capital columns.

  Run this before any analysis that depends on the penetration numbers; residual signatures tell you which column drifted.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli verify rows --vintage 2025-11-30 --agent

• verify schema — Refuse to blend vintages whose column sets are incompatible, and refuse a month that is missing one of its parts.

  Run this whenever a new vintage lands; it blocks silently-incompatible data instead of averaging it.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli verify schema --vintage 2025-11-30 --agent

Cross-source joins

• float triangulate — Put CDC custody penetration beside PSX free-float shares and NCCPL free-float percent, with each denominator named.

  Use this to see where the three float definitions disagree; it deliberately never blends them into one number.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli float triangulate --symbol OGDC --agent

• gop stake — Derive state-held capital per security from the difference between the including-GoP and excluding-GoP capital columns.

  Use for a current cross-section of state ownership; there is only one vintage, so no time series exists.

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli gop stake --min-pct 25 --agent

Command Reference

assets — Static PDF report files under /assets/uploads/YYYY/MM/.

• cdc-pakistan-pp-cli assets — Fetch one report PDF. Also challenged by Cloudflare, so the same clearance cookie is required.

downloads — CDC downloads corpus — 7,956 documents across 15 categories, 2007-2026.

• cdc-pakistan-pp-cli downloads — List download items for one (category, year, page).

statistics — CDS aggregate statistics — a 16-row HTML table, overwritten monthly. Current-state only.

• cdc-pakistan-pp-cli statistics — Fetch the current CDS aggregate statistics table.

Finding the right command

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

cdc-pakistan-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. --json (and other machine formats) keep that exit-2 contract and write {"matches":[]} on stdout so agents can inspect the envelope without treating a miss as success.

Recipes

Prove the mirror before trusting it

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli coverage map --agent --select buckets.category,buckets.year,buckets.state

Returns the tri-state coverage per bucket so you can tell a genuine source gap from an unasked question.

Narrow a wide eligibility history for an agent

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli eligibility state --isin PK0069501016 --agent --select events.effective_date,events.state,events.notice_url

The full event payload is large; selecting three dotted paths keeps an agent's context small while preserving the audit trail.

Find state-owned concentration

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli gop stake --min-pct 25 --agent --select rows.symbol,rows.gop_shares,rows.gop_pct

Lists securities where the Government of Pakistan holds at least a quarter of paid-up capital.

Catch a symbol collision before a join

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli identity resolve --symbol LOTCHEM --as-of 2019-06-30 --agent

Returns the identity in force on that date, or NOT_IN_VINTAGE rather than guessing.

Audit an extraction end to end

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli verify rows --vintage 2025-11-30 --agent --select findings.check_name,findings.severity,findings.isin

Surfaces only the failing checks and the ISINs they belong to.

Auth Setup

CDC sits behind a Cloudflare JS challenge on every path. The authoritative gesture is auth clearance set, which stores three things as one unit: the cf_clearance cookie, the exact User-Agent that minted it (the cookie is bound to that User-Agent and is useless without it), and the mint time. Clear the challenge once in a real browser, then pass the cookie and that browser's User-Agent:

# The cookie is read from stdin so it never reaches your shell history.
printf '%s' "$CF_CLEARANCE" | cdc-pakistan-pp-cli auth clearance set --user-agent "$UA"
cdc-pakistan-pp-cli auth clearance status

$UA must be the exact User-Agent of the browser you cleared the challenge in.

The clearance has a measured hard lifetime of roughly thirty minutes from mint, regardless of traffic — the cookie's own expiry field claims a year and is not to be trusted. The long-running commands (coverage map, verify rows, stats history --snapshot) check the remaining margin before starting and refuse early rather than dying midway through a fan-out; the thin single-request commands (downloads, statistics, assets) send the stored pair but do not pre-check the margin, so past the window they simply return a challenge error.

auth login --chrome is the framework's generic cookie import. It populates the generated credential store and is enough for the thin fetchers, but it captures neither the minting User-Agent nor a mint time, so it cannot support the margin guard and does not satisfy the commands that read the clearance store. Prefer auth clearance set.

Run cdc-pakistan-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color.

Global format flags share one contract on promoted, novel, sync, and --deliver paths:

• --json — one JSON document on stdout (sync progress events go to stderr)

• --compact — keep identity/status/timestamp fields; does not change the document vs stream shape

• --csv / --plain — tabular rows (collection envelopes unwrap to the row array)

• --quiet — one identity value per row, no envelope

• 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:

  cdc-pakistan-pp-cli downloads --agent

• 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:

{
  "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 CDC_PAKISTAN_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: CDC_PAKISTAN_CONFIG_DIR, CDC_PAKISTAN_DATA_DIR, CDC_PAKISTAN_STATE_DIR, CDC_PAKISTAN_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, CDC_PAKISTAN_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 cdc-pakistan-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:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "cdc-pakistan": {
        "command": "cdc-pakistan-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "CDC_PAKISTAN_HOME": "/srv/cdc-pakistan"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use CDC_PAKISTAN_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 CDC_PAKISTAN_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Automatic learning

This CLI ships a self-capturing learning loop. The CLI does its own bookkeeping: every invocation is journaled locally, a failed flag followed by a corrected retry auto-derives a flag_alias candidate, and a teach on a query family without a playbook auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal. Your job is judgment only: recall first, act on surfaced candidates, teach the final answer, playbook amend when you observe a correction. You never record failures by hand.

Step 1: recall before any discovery

Before list/search/drill commands on a new user question, run:

cdc-pakistan-pp-cli recall "<user's question>" --agent

The response envelope:

{
  "query": "...",
  "normalized": "<normalized form>",
  "query_entities": ["..."],
  "found": true | false,
  "match_score": 0.0,
  "results": [
    { "resource_id": "...", "resource_type": "...", "venue": "...",
      "confidence": 2, "entity_match": "exact|partial|unknown",
      "source": "taught|preseed|pattern", "warnings": ["..."] }
  ],
  "mismatches": [ /* only when --debug-mismatches */ ],
  "warnings": [ /* top-level */ ],
  "candidates": [
    { "id": 12, "class": "flag_alias | playbook_candidate",
      "summary": "...", "sightings": 3, "last_seen": "...",
      "rationale": "...",
      "next_action": ["<trial command>", "cdc-pakistan-pp-cli learnings confirm 12"] }
  ],
  "playbook": {
    "query_family": "...",
    "playbook": {
      "steps": [ { "cmd": "<command with {slot} substitution>", "purpose": "..." } ],
      "entity_slots": ["$ENTITY"],
      "expected_tool_calls": 3
    },
    "slots_resolved": { "$ENTITY": { "token": "<live token>", "canonical": "<canonical>" } },
    "notes": "<workarounds + gotchas for this query family>"
  },
  "notes": "<duplicate surface for non-playbook callers>"
}

Empty-store short-circuit: if the store has no learnings, playbooks, or candidates yet (recall finds nothing and learnings list and learnings candidates are both empty), skip recall for the rest of this session instead of taxing every query; resume recall-first once something has been taught.

Step 2: decision tree

Read candidates, playbook, notes, results[0], and warnings in that order:

if Candidates present (warnings include "candidates_present"):
    -> candidates are try-then-confirm, never facts. Follow each candidate's
       two-step next_action verbatim: run the trial command first, then run
       `learnings confirm <id>` only after the trial verified the behavior.
       Reject a wrong candidate with `learnings reject <id>`.
    -> NEVER re-teach something recall surfaced as a candidate; confirm or
       reject that candidate instead of teaching a duplicate.
    -> candidates ride alongside playbooks and resource hits, not instead of
       them; continue with the branches below after acting on them.

if Playbook present:
    -> READ Playbook.notes verbatim FIRST (workarounds + gotchas the CLI surface doesn't expose)
    -> replay Playbook.steps in order, substituting Playbook.slots_resolved entries
       for the entity slot tokens. If a step's slot is unresolved, fall back to
       discovery for that step only.
    -> the Playbook's expected_tool_calls is a budget; if you find yourself running
       materially more, record the divergence via `cdc-pakistan-pp-cli playbook amend`
       at end-of-session.

elif Notes present (no Playbook):
    -> read Notes verbatim before any discovery step; they carry known gotchas
       for this query family even when no structured choreography exists yet.

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "exact" AND Results[0].Confidence >= 2:
    -> skip discovery; fetch live data for Results[*].ResourceID in parallel

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "partial":
    -> candidate hint, NOT a hit; read the resource title to validate before trusting

elif (any row in Mismatches[] when --debug-mismatches was passed):
    -> treat as cold start; the stored learning is for a different entity
       (different canonical resolved from query_entities)

else:  // Found == false, no playbook, no notes
    -> cold start; run discovery normally; teach the answer afterward (Step 4).
       If the family has no playbook yet, that teach auto-synthesizes a
       playbook candidate from this session's journal - you do not need to
       record one by hand.

Playbook and Notes are orthogonal to the per-resource path. A recall response can carry both a Playbook AND a Results[] hit - use both: the Playbook tells you which choreography to run; the resource hits short-circuit specific steps. Default to skipping mismatches; pass --debug-mismatches only when investigating cold-start surprises.

Candidate judgment details: learnings confirm <id> prints the candidate's full payload before materializing it - check that the printed payload matches the behavior you verified. learnings reject <id> tombstones the derivation signature so the same candidate does not resurface. The envelope carries only the few candidates worth acting on now; cdc-pakistan-pp-cli learnings candidates lists the full open set.

Graceful degradation: if learnings confirm is an unknown command, you are driving an older binary - ignore the candidates guidance and follow the rest of the protocol.