Pp Pointhound

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Pointhound — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the pointhound-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 pointhound --cli-only

2. Verify: pointhound-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):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/pointhound/cmd/pointhound-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.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI whenever you need to compound award-search work: comparing multiple routes, tracking deals over time, asking balance-aware questions, or wiring Pointhound into a daily cron. The web UI is fine for one-off searches but loses everything when you close the tab; this CLI keeps every snapshot in a local SQLite for SQL queries, drift detection, and cross-route ranking.

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.

Local state that compounds

• from-home — Tell me where I can fly with the points I actually hold — feed in your Chase UR, Amex MR, Bilt, Capital One, and Citi TY balances and get back every destination reachable in the requested cabin within those balances, ranked by lowest effective spend.

  When an agent has a goal like 'plan a fall trip' and a balance fact like 'user has 450k transferable points', this command answers the multi-step optimization in one call instead of N searches.

  pointhound-pp-cli from-home SFO --balance "ur:250000,mr:80000,bilt:120000" --cabin business --month 2026-10 --agent

• compare-transfer — Given a transferable points program (Chase UR, Amex MR, etc.) and a route, list every redemption ranked by source-program points spent — multiplying each offer's price by the real transfer ratio (1:1 instant for UR→United vs 0.333:1 up_to_72 for Marriott→United).

  Agents reasoning about 'cheapest redemption' should ask in user-input units, not airline-output units. This command does the math.

  pointhound-pp-cli compare-transfer chase-ultimate-rewards --search-id ofs_xxx --json

• batch — Issue N route+date searches in parallel from a CSV file (or repeated --route flags); all results are snapshotted to the local SQLite store with throttling.

  Multi-search is the common case for travel planning; web UIs only do one search at a time.

  pointhound-pp-cli batch --search-ids-file ~/routes.txt --throttle 1s --cabin business --json

• top-deals-matrix — Submit a multi-origin × multi-destination × month-range matrix search (e.g. SFO,LAX → LIS,FCO,LHR across Oct-Dec) and snapshot every result. Mirrors Pointhound's Premium Top Deals product but with offline access and cabin filtering.

  Travel agents and trip planners can ask 'best Europe deal this fall?' in one shot.

  pointhound-pp-cli top-deals-matrix --origins SFO,LAX --dests LIS,FCO,LHR --months 2026-10,2026-11,2026-12 --cabin business

• drift — For a watched route, diff the latest snapshot against the previous and show per-offer status: new, cheaper, disappeared, unchanged. Includes the points delta and timestamp gap.

  Answers 'did anything change?' in one terse output, which is what an agent or human re-checker actually wants.

  pointhound-pp-cli drift SFO LIS 2026-08-15 --since yesterday --json

• calendar — For a route + cabin, batch-search every month over a 12-month window and produce a month-grid showing min points cost per month (and the offer that achieved it).

  Trip-planning agents need a month picker, not a date picker, when the user says 'sometime next year'.

  pointhound-pp-cli calendar --search-ids ofs_a,ofs_b,ofs_c --cabin business --json

Agent-native plumbing

• watch — Register a route as a saved watch; subsequent runs poll Pointhound and exit with code 2 only when a new or cheaper deal appears since the last snapshot. Perfect for cron.

  The agent-native equivalent of 'tell me when something changes' — exit-code-driven, suitable for any scheduler.

  pointhound-pp-cli watch SFO LIS 2026-08-15 --cabin business --quiet && say 'new deal'

Service-specific patterns

• explore-deal-rating — Use Pointhound's scout.pointhound.com/places/search dealRating and isTracked fields to discover airports near a metro that historically have high-frequency deals, optionally chaining into batch to fetch live offers for them.

  Lets an agent narrow the search space before fan-out: 'find me cheap deals from somewhere near NYC' becomes one command, not three.

  pointhound-pp-cli explore-deal-rating --metro NYC --min-rating high --limit 5 --agent

• transferable-sources — Given an airline redeem program (e.g. United MileagePlus), list every transferable earn program that feeds it with the ratio and transfer time (instant vs up_to_72).

  Quick lookup for 'can I get to United via Capital One?' without remembering the table.

  pointhound-pp-cli transferable-sources united-mileageplus --json

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Discovery Signals

This CLI was generated with browser-observed traffic context.

• Capture coverage: 30 API entries from 134 total network entries
• Protocols: rest_json (95% confidence)
• Auth signals: none; cookie — cookies: cf_clearance, ph_session
• Generation hints: primary_base_url=https://www.pointhound.com, auth_type=cookie, anonymous_read_endpoints, cross_domain_novel_commands=scout.pointhound.com,db.pointhound.com, search_create_blocked_by_cloudflare_requires_cookie_replay
• Candidate command ideas: — Primary read endpoint; verified replayable anonymously.; — Filter facets for a given search session; verified replayable anonymously.; — Airport/city autocomplete with deal-aware ranking (cross-domain — hand-written novel command).
• Caveats: :; :

Command Reference

offers — Flight offers returned for a search session

• pointhound-pp-cli offers filter_options — Get the filterable facets (card programs, airline programs, airlines) available for a given search session.
• pointhound-pp-cli offers list — List flight offers for an existing search session, with optional filters and sort.

Finding the right command

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

pointhound-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.