Pp Kie

Kie — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the kie-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 kie --cli-only

2. Verify: kie-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 before this CLI has a public-library category, install Node or use the category-specific Go fallback after publish.

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.

Unified API for Kie.ai's AI generation platform: image, video, music, and chat models, plus account and file utilities. Async generation endpoints return a taskId; poll the matching record-info/get-details endpoint (or use a callBackUrl) to retrieve results.

Command Reference

aleph — Manage aleph

• kie-pp-cli aleph generate-video — Using Runway Aleph model for video-to-video conversion to create dynamic AI-generated videos ## Overview Transform
• kie-pp-cli aleph get-video-details — Retrieving comprehensive information about Runway Alpeh video generation tasks ## Overview Retrieve detailed

chat — Manage chat

• kie-pp-cli chat — Get the current credit balance available in your account.

claude — Manage claude

• kie-pp-cli claude — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE).

codex — Manage codex

• kie-pp-cli codex — GPT 5.

common — Manage common

• kie-pp-cli common — Convert generated file URLs into downloadable temporary links. Only supports files generated by kie.ai services.

file-base64-upload — Manage file base64 upload

• kie-pp-cli file-base64-upload — Uploaded files are temporary and will be automatically deleted after 24h ### Features * Supports Base64 encoded data

file-stream-upload — Manage file stream upload

• kie-pp-cli file-stream-upload — Uploaded files are temporary and will be automatically deleted after 24h ### Features * Supports binary stream upload

file-url-upload — Manage file url upload

• kie-pp-cli file-url-upload — Uploaded files are temporary and will be automatically deleted after 24h ### Features * Supports HTTP and HTTPS file

flux — Manage flux

• kie-pp-cli flux generate-or-edit-image — Create a new image generation or editing task using the Flux Kontext AI model. ### Usage Modes 1.
• kie-pp-cli flux get-image-details — Query the status and results of an image generation or editing task.

gemini — Manage gemini

• kie-pp-cli gemini 3-5-flash — The Gemini endpoint returns streaming chunks from streamGenerateContent.
• kie-pp-cli gemini 3-6-flash — The Gemini endpoint returns streaming chunks from streamGenerateContent.
• kie-pp-cli gemini 3-flash-v1betamodels — The Gemini endpoint returns streaming chunks from streamGenerateContent.

gemini-2-5-flash — Manage gemini 2 5 flash

• kie-pp-cli gemini-2-5-flash chat-completions — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-2-5-pro — Manage gemini 2 5 pro

• kie-pp-cli gemini-2-5-pro chat-completions — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-3-1-pro — Manage gemini 3 1 pro

• kie-pp-cli gemini-3-1-pro — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-3-5-flash-openai — Manage gemini 3 5 flash openai

• kie-pp-cli gemini-3-5-flash-openai — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-3-6-flash-openai — Manage gemini 3 6 flash openai

• kie-pp-cli gemini-3-6-flash-openai — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-3-flash — Manage gemini 3 flash

• kie-pp-cli gemini-3-flash — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

gemini-3-pro — Manage gemini 3 pro

• kie-pp-cli gemini-3-pro chat-completions — When stream: true is set in the request, the API returns responses as server-sent events (SSE) with `Content-Type

generate — Manage generate

• kie-pp-cli generate add-instrumental — Generate instrumental accompaniment based on uploaded audio files.
• kie-pp-cli generate add-vocals — Generate music with vocals based on uploaded audio files.
• kie-pp-cli generate extend-music — Extend or modify existing music by creating a continuation based on a source audio track.
• kie-pp-cli generate get-music-details — Retrieve detailed information about a music generation task.
• kie-pp-cli generate get-timestamped-lyrics — Retrieve synchronized lyrics with precise timestamps for music tracks.
• kie-pp-cli generate mashup — Create remix music using AI models by combining multiple audio tracks.
• kie-pp-cli generate music — Generate music with or without lyrics using AI models.
• kie-pp-cli generate persona — Create a personalized music Persona based on generated music, giving the music a unique identity and characteristics.
• kie-pp-cli generate replace-section — Replace a specific time segment within existing music.
• kie-pp-cli generate sounds — Used for creating a sound generation task (Sounds Task).
• kie-pp-cli generate upload-and-cover-audio — This API creates a cover version of an audio track by transforming it into a new style while retaining its core melody.
• kie-pp-cli generate upload-and-extend-audio — This API extends audio while preserving the original style, generating a longer and seamless audio track.

gpt-5-2 — Manage gpt 5 2

• kie-pp-cli gpt-5-2 — GPT-5-2 API is a next-generation multimodal model with exceptional reasoning capabilities

gpt4o-image — Manage gpt4o image

• kie-pp-cli gpt4o-image generate-4o-image — Create a new 4o Image generation task. Generated images are stored for 14 days, after which they expire.
• kie-pp-cli gpt4o-image get-4o-image-details — Query 4o Image generation task details using taskId, including generation status, parameters and results.
• kie-pp-cli gpt4o-image get-4o-image-download-url — Convert an image URL to a direct download URL. This helps solve cross-domain issues when downloading images directly.

grok — Manage grok

• kie-pp-cli grok responses — GPT Grok 4.

kie-ai-jobs — Manage kie ai jobs

• kie-pp-cli kie-ai-jobs market-create-task — Unified entry point for every model in the Kie.ai Market catalog (image, video, and audio generation).
• kie-pp-cli kie-ai-jobs market-query-task — Query the status and results of any task created in the Market models.

lyrics — Manage lyrics

• kie-pp-cli lyrics generate — Generate creative lyrics content based on a text prompt.
• kie-pp-cli lyrics get-details — Retrieve detailed information about a lyrics generation task.

midi — Manage midi

• kie-pp-cli midi generate — Convert separated audio tracks into MIDI format with detailed note information for each instrument.
• kie-pp-cli midi get-details — Retrieve detailed information about a MIDI generation task including complete note data for all detected instruments.

mp4 — Manage mp4

• kie-pp-cli mp4 create-music-video — Create a video with visualizations based on your generated music track.
• kie-pp-cli mp4 get-music-video-details — Retrieve detailed information about a music video generation task.

omni — Manage omni

• kie-pp-cli omni gemini-audio — Use this endpoint to create a new audio.
• kie-pp-cli omni gemini-character — - image_urls supports only 1 image

responses — Manage responses

• kie-pp-cli responses — GPT Codex API is a multimodal chat-completions style endpoint that accepts structured input arrays

runway — Manage runway

• kie-pp-cli runway extend-ai-video — Extend existing AI-generated videos to create longer sequences.
• kie-pp-cli runway generate-ai-video — Create dynamic AI-generated videos from text prompts or image references.
• kie-pp-cli runway get-ai-video-details — Retrieve comprehensive information about an AI-generated video task.

style — Manage style

• kie-pp-cli style — Boost Music Style

suno — Manage suno

• kie-pp-cli suno generate-cover — Generate personalized cover images based on original music tasks.
• kie-pp-cli suno get-cover-details — Get detailed information about Cover generation tasks.

veo — Manage veo

• kie-pp-cli veo extend-veo3-1-video — Extend an existing Veo 3.1 video by generating new content based on the original video and a text prompt.
• kie-pp-cli veo generate-veo3-1-video — Our Veo 3.1 Generation API is more than a direct wrapper around Google's baseline.
• kie-pp-cli veo get-veo3-1-1080p-video — Get the high-definition 1080P version of a Veo 3.1 video generation task.
• kie-pp-cli veo get-veo3-1-4k-video — Get the ultra-high-definition 4K version of a Veo 3.1 video generation task.
• kie-pp-cli veo get-veo3-1-video-details — This endpoint is the authoritative source of truth for querying the execution status and final results of all Veo 3.

vocal-removal — Manage vocal removal

• kie-pp-cli vocal-removal get-vocal-separation-details — Retrieve detailed information about a vocal separation task.
• kie-pp-cli vocal-removal separate-vocals — Use advanced audio processing technology to separate music into vocals, accompaniment

voice — Manage voice

• kie-pp-cli voice suno-check — Check whether a generated Suno custom voice is available.
• kie-pp-cli voice suno-generate — Generate a custom Suno Voice after the user reads the validation phrase.
• kie-pp-cli voice suno-record-info — Query the custom Suno Voice generation result.
• kie-pp-cli voice suno-regenerate — Regenerate the validation phrase for an existing Suno Voice task.
• kie-pp-cli voice suno-validate — Generate a validation phrase for the Suno Voice custom voice workflow.
• kie-pp-cli voice suno-validate-info — Query the validation phrase generation result for a Suno Voice task.

wav — Manage wav

• kie-pp-cli wav convert-to — Convert an existing music track to high-quality WAV format.
• kie-pp-cli wav get-details — Retrieve detailed information about a WAV format conversion task.

Finding the right command

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

kie-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.

Auth Setup

Run kie-pp-cli auth setup for the URL and steps to obtain a token (add --launch to open the URL). Then store it:

kie-pp-cli auth set-token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

Or set KIE_BEARER_AUTH as an environment variable.

Run kie-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:

  kie-pp-cli aleph generate-video --prompt example-value --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

• Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success

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

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: KIE_CONFIG_DIR, KIE_DATA_DIR, KIE_STATE_DIR, KIE_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, KIE_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 kie-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": {
      "kie": {
        "command": "kie-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "KIE_HOME": "/srv/kie"
        }
      }
    }
  }

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

kie-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>", "kie-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 `kie-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; kie-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.