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Is Agentic — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the is-agentic-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 is-agentic --cli-only

2. Verify: is-agentic-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/developer-tools/is-agentic/cmd/is-agentic-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.

Retrieve the official report with the same read-only contract as the upstream CLI, then keep local history, diffs, fleet comparisons, policy gates, issue lifecycles, and exportable evidence beside it. The API remains the source of truth; the local layer makes repeated engineering work compound.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or engineering workflow needs an Is Agentic score, evidence-backed issues, or repeatable comparisons across public sites. Prefer the local history, diff, portfolio, and check commands when the task spans deployments or more than one target.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI as a security, accessibility, compliance, or penetration-test substitute.
• Do not use it for private or authenticated pages that the public scan cannot observe.
• Do not use it to start arbitrary scans through undocumented website internals; start a missing scan from the official web report page.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local evidence that compounds

• history — Keep a local, timestamped ledger of readiness reports and their provenance.

  Choose this when you need an auditable local timeline instead of one ephemeral API response.

  is-agentic-pp-cli history --json --agent

• diff — See which readiness scores and findings changed between two retained audits.

  Choose this after a deployment to verify whether agent-readiness regressions were introduced or fixed.

  is-agentic-pp-cli diff --target https://is-agentic.com --json --agent

• issues — Track when readiness findings first appeared, last appeared, were fixed, or regressed.

  Choose this to turn recurring findings into a remediation queue with honest history.

  is-agentic-pp-cli issues --target https://is-agentic.com --json --agent

Release and fleet controls

• check — Fail CI with an explicit, machine-readable readiness policy decision.

  Choose this when a release pipeline must enforce readiness instead of merely displaying it.

  is-agentic-pp-cli check --target https://is-agentic.com --min-score 80 --json --agent

• portfolio — Compare a fleet of public sites in one sortable score and issue matrix.

  Choose this for platform or agency work spanning multiple public targets.

  is-agentic-pp-cli portfolio --targets https://is-agentic.com,https://example.com --json --agent

• portfolio — Refresh many targets with bounded concurrency, deduplication, and Retry-After-aware pacing.

  Choose this for repeatable fleet refreshes that must respect the public 120-per-minute quota.

  is-agentic-pp-cli portfolio --file sites.txt --max-requests 50 --json --agent

Portable audit artifacts

• evidence — Package a report and its provenance into a portable evidence artifact.

  Choose this when an audit must travel with a review, ticket, or release artifact.

  is-agentic-pp-cli evidence --target https://is-agentic.com --json

Command Reference

report — Read completed public Is Agentic reports.

• is-agentic-pp-cli report get-is-agentic-legacy — Deprecated compatibility alias for GET /api/v1/report.
• is-agentic-pp-cli report get-is-agentic-v1 — Returns one latest completed stored report for a public HTTP or HTTPS URL without launching a scan.

Finding the right command

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

is-agentic-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

Fetch one report

is-agentic-pp-cli report get-is-agentic-v1 --url https://is-agentic.com --json --agent

Return the current report in a compact agent-friendly shape.

Compare a small fleet

is-agentic-pp-cli portfolio --targets https://is-agentic.com,https://example.com --json --agent --select target,score,score_label

Compare targets while selecting only the fields needed for a decision.

Gate a release

is-agentic-pp-cli check --target https://is-agentic.com --min-score 80 --json --agent

Enforce a local minimum score with a structured decision.

Auth Setup

No authentication required. The public API has no bulk sync endpoint; use report or portfolio to populate local history.

Run is-agentic-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

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

• 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:

  is-agentic-pp-cli report get-is-agentic-legacy --url https://example.com --agent --select details,id,name

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Local evidence — report and portfolio commands populate local SQLite history for history/diff/issues; this API has no bulk sync endpoint

• 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 IS_AGENTIC_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: IS_AGENTIC_CONFIG_DIR, IS_AGENTIC_DATA_DIR, IS_AGENTIC_STATE_DIR, IS_AGENTIC_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, IS_AGENTIC_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 is-agentic-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": {
      "is-agentic": {
        "command": "is-agentic-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "IS_AGENTIC_HOME": "/srv/is-agentic"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use IS_AGENTIC_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 IS_AGENTIC_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:

is-agentic-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>", "is-agentic-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 `is-agentic-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; is-agentic-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.

Step 3: always read warnings

• low_confidence: row exists at confidence<2. Treat as a hint, not a skip-discovery hit.
• resource_not_in_store: the local store doesn't have the resource the learning points at. The match validator couldn't classify entities — direct-fetch and re-evaluate.
• cross_alias_match (per-result): the row was taught under a different alias and matched the live query's canonical via entity_lookups (e.g., a "USA" teach satisfying a "United States" recall). Trust the resource_id.
• similar_shape_different_entity:<canonical> (top-level): a structurally matching row exists but its canonical entity differs from the live query's. Treated as cold start; the warning carries the conflicting canonical as a hint, but the row is NOT promoted into Results.
• ambiguous_alias (top-level): a single query entity resolved to multiple canonicals (e.g., "Cards" → Arizona Cardinals + St. Louis Cardinals). Surface the ambiguity from context before committing to a resource.
• candidates_present (top-level): the envelope carries a candidates section. Handle it via the candidates branch in Step 2 before anything else.
• lookup_refresh_available (top-level): an entity in the query has no lookup row yet, but synced data could provide one. Run is-agentic-pp-cli report get-is-agentic-v1 --url <target> or is-agentic-pp-cli portfolio --targets <target> to populate local evidence.
• Top-level no_learnings_for_query_family: the table had no rows above the Jaccard floor. Pure cold start.