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MyAnimeList — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the myanimelist-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 myanimelist --cli-only

2. Verify: myanimelist-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/media-and-entertainment/myanimelist/cmd/myanimelist-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.

Search, inspect, and rank anime and manga from the terminal with no API key, no OAuth, and no browser. Everything you look at is cached in SQLite so it stays searchable offline, and local commands like drift, week, and franchise gap answer questions MyAnimeList has no page for: how a score moved, what airs tonight in your timezone, and which franchise entries you skipped.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or a person needs MyAnimeList data without registering an application or holding a token: title lookups, seasonal and ranking exploration, cast and staff research, and analytics over score and status distributions. It is also the right tool for local watch tracking when a user does not want their list tied to an account. It is well suited to scripted seasonal planning, backlog triage, and franchise audits because every read is cached and every command emits JSON.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use it to stream, download, or watch anime; it returns metadata and streaming links only.
• Do not use it to modify a MyAnimeList account: there is no authenticated write path, by design.
• Do not use it as a general anime database across sites; it reads MyAnimeList alone and does not merge AniList, Kitsu, or Shikimori data.
• Do not use it for bulk crawling of the whole catalog; it exposes no catalog enumeration surface.

Unique Capabilities

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

Reception analytics the site hides

• anime divisive — See whether a title is universally loved or bitterly split, instead of reading one average score.

  Use it before committing to a long series when the average score hides a love-it-or-hate-it split.

  myanimelist-pp-cli anime divisive 5114 --json

• anime drop-risk — Judge how likely a title is to be abandoned before you commit dozens of episodes to it.

  Use it to triage a plan-to-watch backlog by follow-through rather than by average score.

  myanimelist-pp-cli anime drop-risk 21 --json

• anime consistency — See whether a show improves, holds, or falls apart across its episodes using per-episode poll data.

  Use it to decide whether to keep watching mid-season rather than finishing a dud.

  myanimelist-pp-cli anime consistency 52991 --json

Local state that compounds

• drift — See how a title's score, member count, favorites, and rank have moved since you last looked.

  Reach for it when a question depends on change over time rather than the current number.

  myanimelist-pp-cli drift --since 30d --json

• week — Get a timezone-correct seven-day grid of just the shows you track, with same-hour collisions flagged.

  Use it to plan what to watch tonight without hand-converting Japan time for every show.

  myanimelist-pp-cli week --json

Franchise intelligence

• adaptation — Learn whether an anime covered its source manga and how much source material is left.

  Use it when a user asks where to pick up the manga after the anime.

  myanimelist-pp-cli adaptation 52991 --json

• franchise gap — Find the sequel, movie, or side story you skipped in every franchise you have already started.

  Use it to catch missing entries before starting a new season of a franchise.

  myanimelist-pp-cli franchise gap --json

Command Reference

anime — Browse, search, and inspect anime titles

• myanimelist-pp-cli anime characters — Characters and their Japanese/English voice actors for an anime
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime episodes — Episode table with titles, air dates, poll averages, and reply counts
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime forum — Discussion boards attached to an anime title
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime get — Fetch one anime title's full detail page by MyAnimeList id
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime list — Search anime with the site's full advanced filters (query, format, score, airing status, rating, year range, genre
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime moreinfo — Extended credits, external links, and full theme-song credits
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime pictures — Image gallery (posters, key visuals, screenshots) for an anime
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime recommendations — Community recommendations for an anime, with recommendation counts
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime reviews — Community reviews with scores, helpful counts, and spoiler flags
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime stats — Score distribution (1-10 with vote counts) and status distribution for an anime
• myanimelist-pp-cli anime videos — Promotional videos and trailers for an anime

character — Characters

• myanimelist-pp-cli character <id> — A character's profile with appearances and voice actors

forum — Public forum boards and topics

• myanimelist-pp-cli forum boards — All forum boards with their current topic counts
• myanimelist-pp-cli forum topic — One forum topic and its posts
• myanimelist-pp-cli forum topics — Topics in one forum board

genre — Browse by genre, theme, or demographic

• myanimelist-pp-cli genre anime — Anime in a genre, theme, or demographic
• myanimelist-pp-cli genre manga — Manga in a genre, theme, or demographic

instant — Instant cross-entity search

• myanimelist-pp-cli instant — Instant search across anime, manga, characters, and people (the site's own suggest API, JSON)

magazine — Manga serialization magazines

• myanimelist-pp-cli magazine <id> — A magazine's page with every serialized title

manga — Browse, search, and inspect manga, novels, and one-shots

• myanimelist-pp-cli manga characters — Characters credited in a manga
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga get — Fetch one manga title's full detail page by MyAnimeList id
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga list — Search manga with the site's advanced filters
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga moreinfo — Extended credits and external links for a manga
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga pictures — Image gallery for a manga
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga recommendations — Community recommendations for a manga
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga reviews — Community reviews for a manga
• myanimelist-pp-cli manga stats — Score distribution and status distribution for a manga

member — Public MyAnimeList user profiles and lists

• myanimelist-pp-cli member anime-list — A public anime list as JSON rows (status, score, progress, tags); no credential required
• myanimelist-pp-cli member get — A public member profile: statistics, favorites, and recent activity (no credential required)
• myanimelist-pp-cli member manga-list — A public manga list as JSON rows; no credential required
• myanimelist-pp-cli member statistics — A member's public aggregate statistics

news — Anime and manga news

• myanimelist-pp-cli news get — A single news article, body included
• myanimelist-pp-cli news list — Latest news headlines with pagination

person — Voice actors and staff

• myanimelist-pp-cli person <id> — A person's page: animeography, voice roles, and staff credits

ranking — Top anime and manga rankings

• myanimelist-pp-cli ranking anime — Top anime by type: all, airing, upcoming, tv, movie, ova, ona, special, bypopularity, favorite
• myanimelist-pp-cli ranking manga — Top manga by type: all, manga, novels, lightnovels, oneshots, doujin, manhwa, manhua, bypopularity, favorite

season — Seasonal anime charts

• myanimelist-pp-cli season archive — Index of every past season
• myanimelist-pp-cli season current — The season airing right now
• myanimelist-pp-cli season later — Upcoming seasons announced but not yet airing (the upcoming path 404s; later is the real route)
• myanimelist-pp-cli season list — Full seasonal chart for a year and season, grouped by format
• myanimelist-pp-cli season schedule — The weekly airing schedule, optionally shifted to a timezone the site understands

studio — Animation studios and licensors

• myanimelist-pp-cli studio <id> — A studio's or licensor's page with its full production list

Freshness Contract

This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In --data-source auto mode, those paths check sync_state and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. --data-source local never refreshes. --data-source live reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set MYANIMELIST_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1 to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection.

Covered paths:

Real command paths are discoverable at runtime:

• myanimelist-pp-cli --help for the 15 resource groups and the hand-written commands
• myanimelist-pp-cli <resource> --help for that group's endpoint commands
• myanimelist-pp-cli which "<capability>" --json to map a capability to a command
• myanimelist-pp-cli agent-context for the full machine-readable command tree

When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at meta.freshness. Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment.

Finding the right command

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

myanimelist-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

Narrow a title record for an agent

myanimelist-pp-cli anime get 52991 --agent --select id,title,score,episodes,status,genres,studios

Title pages are large; --select keeps only the fields an agent needs.

Trim nested instant-search results

myanimelist-pp-cli instant --query frieren --entity-type anime --agent --select categories.items.name,categories.items.payload.score

The suggest response nests categories and payloads; dotted --select flattens the useful fields.

Is this show split or universally loved?

myanimelist-pp-cli anime divisive 5114

Turns the 1-10 vote distribution into a polarization reading.

Audit a franchise you started

myanimelist-pp-cli franchise gap

Lists entries missing from franchises already in your local library.

Plan the week in your own timezone

myanimelist-pp-cli week

Shows only your tracked shows, with same-hour collisions flagged.

Auth Setup

No credentials, ever. The CLI reads MyAnimeList's public pages and its own suggest endpoint over plain HTTP. There is no API key to set, no OAuth flow to complete, and no session cookie to keep alive. Requests are polite by default: a descriptive User-Agent, one request per second, and a 24-hour cache so repeat reads cost nothing.

Run myanimelist-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:

  myanimelist-pp-cli anime show 52991 --agent --select id,title,score,genres

• 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 confirmation — --agent does not imply --yes; pass --yes separately only after the target, arguments, and side effects are clear

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

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: MYANIMELIST_CONFIG_DIR, MYANIMELIST_DATA_DIR, MYANIMELIST_STATE_DIR, MYANIMELIST_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, MYANIMELIST_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 data.db (the local SQLite mirror and your track library). state contains persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log. cache contains regenerable HTTP/cache files. This CLI needs no credentials, so there is no credential store.

• Run myanimelist-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to surface path 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": {
      "myanimelist": {
        "command": "myanimelist-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "MYANIMELIST_HOME": "/srv/myanimelist"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use MYANIMELIST_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 MYANIMELIST_HOME, or doctor will not find your database and library 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, pass the question as an argv or MCP tool argument to recall --agent. Do not interpolate user-controlled text into a shell command line.

Quoted recall "<question>" breaks on an apostrophe, which is ordinary English. A quoted heredoc breaks when a body line equals the delimiter, and that delimiter is published in these docs. Write the question with a non-shell file-writing tool, then read it back as data:

# Write the question verbatim with your file-writing tool (no shell involved).
# Command substitution on a file only ever yields data — the shell never
# parses the file's bytes as syntax.
QUERY=$(cat /path/to/question.txt)
myanimelist-pp-cli recall "$QUERY" --agent

Prefer MCP: pass the question as the tool's query argument. "$QUERY" after a file read is argv-safe; putting the question itself in the command text is not.

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>", "myanimelist-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.