Agent skill

Pp Pushover

by mvanhorn in mvanhorn/printing-press-library

Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local...

Apache-2.0Auto-check: notes

Install Pp Pushover

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-pushover -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-pushover --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-pushover .claude/skills/pp-pushover && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
pp-pushover
GitHub stars
2.1k
Token cost
~3.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,401 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
505
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local...

  • Works in 3 steps: Install via the Printing Press… → Verify: pushover-pp-cli --version → Ensure the reported install directory is…
  • Phrases: send me a pushover
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites: Install the CLI, When to Use This CLI, Unique Capabilities and Command Reference, plus 10 more sections
  • Calls claude, npx and go; needs PUSHOVER_USER_KEY and PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN

What it does

Pp Pushover is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local... Trigger phrases: send me a pushover, notify me on my phone, check pushover quota, watch pushover emergency receipt, validate pushover user key, use pushover-pp-cli.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Official library of CLIs generated by the CLI Printing Press. Endorsed, tested, and community-contributed. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Phrases: send me a pushover
  • Notify me on my phone
  • Check pushover quota
  • Watch pushover emergency receipt

Example prompts

  • “/pp-pushover”

Requirements

  • Node.js
  • A credential in PUSHOVER_USER_KEY
  • A credential in PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and…
  2. Verify: pushover-pp-cli --version
  3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0fdcc7a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Bash

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • claude
    • npx
    • go

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • PUSHOVER_USER_KEY
    • PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN
    • PUSHOVER_TOKEN
    • PUSHOVER_CLIENT_SECRET

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Pp Pushover loads about 3.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,401 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mvanhorn/printing-press-library at commit 0fdcc7a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mvanhorn). 1,401 words, ~3,330 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pp-pushover/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pp-pushover
description
Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local... Trigger phrases: `send me a pushover`, `notify me on my phone`, `check pushover quota`, `watch pushover emergency receipt`, `validate pushover user key`, `use pushover-pp-cli`.
allowed-tools
Read, Bash
author
Todd Dailey
license
Apache-2.0
argument-hint
<command> [args] | install cli|mcp
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
     This file is a verbatim mirror of library/social-and-messaging/pushover/SKILL.md,
     regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are
     silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
     See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->

Pushover — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the pushover-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:
    bash
    npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install pushover --cli-only
  2. Verify: pushover-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):

bash
go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/social-and-messaging/pushover/cmd/pushover-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 pushover-pp-cli for agent or ops workflows that need mobile push notifications, emergency receipt tracking, quota-aware sends, group delivery management, or Open Client message retrieval.

Unique Capabilities

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

Agent-native plumbing
  • notify — Send a notification from an argument or stdin with env/config defaults, named priorities, and emergency validation.

    Lets agents send test or operational notifications without leaking token values or remembering the raw endpoint shape.

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli notify "Printing Press test" --priority low --json
Receipt operations
  • emergency watch — Send or monitor an emergency notification receipt, polling acknowledgement status and supporting cancellation.

    Turns emergency notifications from fire-and-forget sends into an auditable on-call workflow.

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli emergency watch --receipt <receipt> --poll-interval 30s --cancel-on-timeout --json
Operational safety
  • quota — Show monthly send limit, remaining sends, and reset time from the app limits endpoint.

    Agents can check send budget before fanout or repeated test sends.

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli quota --json
Local state that compounds
  • history — Search and export a local redacted ledger of notifications sent by this CLI and receipt outcomes.

    Shows what this CLI sent, when, with which priority, without storing raw user keys or tokens.

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli history list --since 24h --json
  • inbox sync — Download Open Client messages into local SQLite before optional server-side delete-through.

    Makes Pushover usable as both send channel and retrievable inbox for agents that own an Open Client device.

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli inbox sync --device-id <device-id> --json

Command Reference

notify — Send an agent-safe notification from an argument, --message, or stdin

  • pushover-pp-cli notify — Send with env defaults, named priorities, emergency validation, and redacted local history

emergency — Watch emergency-priority receipts

  • pushover-pp-cli emergency watch — Poll an emergency receipt at a safe cadence until terminal state

quota — Check application send quota

  • pushover-pp-cli quota — Show monthly limit, remaining sends, and reset time

history — Inspect the local redacted notification ledger

  • pushover-pp-cli history — List locally recorded notification sends
  • pushover-pp-cli history show — Show one local history row

inbox — Sync Open Client messages locally

  • pushover-pp-cli inbox sync — Store downloaded Open Client messages in local SQLite
  • pushover-pp-cli inbox list — List locally synced Open Client messages

apps — Inspect application-level message quotas

  • pushover-pp-cli apps — Check monthly message limit, remaining sends, and reset time

devices — Manage Open Client devices

  • pushover-pp-cli devices create — Register a new Open Client desktop device
  • pushover-pp-cli devices delete-through — Delete downloaded Open Client messages up to a highest message id

glances — Update Pushover Glances widgets

  • pushover-pp-cli glances — Update Glances widget fields

groups — Create, inspect, and manage Pushover delivery groups

  • pushover-pp-cli groups add-user — Add a user to a delivery group
  • pushover-pp-cli groups create — Create a delivery group
  • pushover-pp-cli groups disable-user — Temporarily disable a group user
  • pushover-pp-cli groups enable-user — Re-enable a disabled group user
  • pushover-pp-cli groups get — Get a delivery group's name and users
  • pushover-pp-cli groups list — List delivery groups owned by the account
  • pushover-pp-cli groups remove-user — Remove a user from a delivery group
  • pushover-pp-cli groups rename — Rename a delivery group

licenses — Assign and inspect Pushover license credits

  • pushover-pp-cli licenses assign — Assign a pre-paid license credit to a user or email
  • pushover-pp-cli licenses credits — Check remaining license credits

messages — Send application notifications and download Open Client messages

  • pushover-pp-cli messages download — Download pending messages for an Open Client device
  • pushover-pp-cli messages send — Send a Pushover notification

receipts — Inspect and cancel emergency-priority message receipts

  • pushover-pp-cli receipts cancel — Cancel retries for one emergency-priority receipt
  • pushover-pp-cli receipts cancel-by-tag — Cancel active emergency-priority retries matching a tag
  • pushover-pp-cli receipts get — Get emergency-priority receipt status

sounds — Discover notification sounds

  • pushover-pp-cli sounds — List built-in and account custom notification sounds

subscriptions — Manage Pushover subscription migrations

  • pushover-pp-cli subscriptions — Migrate an existing user key into a subscription user key

teams — Manage Pushover for Teams membership

  • pushover-pp-cli teams add-user — Add a user to a team
  • pushover-pp-cli teams get — Show team information and users
  • pushover-pp-cli teams remove-user — Remove a user from a team

users — Validate users and log in for Open Client sessions

  • pushover-pp-cli users login — Log in a user for Open Client and return a user key plus session secret
  • pushover-pp-cli users validate — Validate a user or group key and optional device
Finding the right command

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

bash
pushover-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.

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Recipes

Send a low-priority test
bash
pushover-pp-cli notify "Printing Press test" --priority low --json

Uses env/config credentials and records a local ledger row.

Check quota before a batch
bash
pushover-pp-cli quota --json --select remaining,reset

Reads the dedicated app limits endpoint.

Validate a destination
bash
pushover-pp-cli users validate --user-key "$PUSHOVER_USER_KEY" --json

Confirms the key is valid before relying on it in scripts.

Watch an emergency receipt
bash
pushover-pp-cli emergency watch --receipt <receipt> --json

Polls the official receipt endpoint at a safe cadence.

Auth Setup

Set PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN and PUSHOVER_USER_KEY for send, quota, users, groups, sounds, receipts, glances, subscriptions, and license workflows. Legacy PUSHOVER_TOKEN and PUSHOVER_USER are accepted as local compatibility aliases. Open Client workflows use PUSHOVER_CLIENT_SECRET and PUSHOVER_DEVICE_ID when their flags are omitted.

Run pushover-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:

    bash
    pushover-pp-cli groups list --app-token your-token-here --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:

json
{
  "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 — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

pushover-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
pushover-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
pushover-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.pushover-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless PUSHOVER_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or PUSHOVER_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

SinkEffect
stdoutDefault; write to stdout only
file:<path>Atomically write output to <path> (tmp + rename)
webhook:<url>POST the output body to the URL (application/json or application/x-ndjson when --compact)

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

pushover-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
pushover-pp-cli --profile briefing groups list --app-token your-token-here
pushover-pp-cli profile list --json
pushover-pp-cli profile show briefing
pushover-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

CodeMeaning
0Success
2Usage error (wrong arguments)
3Resource not found
5API error (upstream issue)
7Rate limited (wait and retry)
10Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  1. Empty, help, or --help → show pushover-pp-cli --help output
  2. Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
  3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

bash
claude mcp add pushover-pp-mcp -- pushover-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

  1. Check if installed: which pushover-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
  2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
  3. Execute with the --agent flag:
    bash
    pushover-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
  4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: pushover-pp-cli <command> --help.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in cli-skills/pp-pushover of mvanhorn/printing-press-library.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0fdcc7a

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Questions about Pp Pushover

What does Pp Pushover do?

Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local... Pp Pushover is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Pushover from the terminal: send alerts, watch emergency receipts, inspect quota, and keep a redacted local...

When should I use Pp Pushover?

Pp Pushover fits situations like: phrases: send me a pushover; notify me on my phone; check pushover quota; watch pushover emergency receipt.

How do I install Pp Pushover in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-pushover -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-pushover in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .claude/skills/pp-pushover in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pp Pushover in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-pushover -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-pushover in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .agents/skills/pp-pushover in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pp Pushover in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-pushover -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pp-pushover, .gemini/skills/pp-pushover, .github/skills/pp-pushover and .opencode/skills/pp-pushover in your project.

What does Pp Pushover need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Pp Pushover needs the command-line tools its instructions call (claude, npx and go) and credentials named PUSHOVER_USER_KEY, PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN, PUSHOVER_TOKEN and PUSHOVER_CLIENT_SECRET. Our summary lists: Node.js; A credential in PUSHOVER_USER_KEY; A credential in PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Bash.

Does Pp Pushover access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Pp Pushover safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Pp Pushover use?

Pp Pushover is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Pp Pushover use?

About 3.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Pp Pushover?

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Who maintains Pp Pushover?

mvanhorn (a GitHub user) maintains it in mvanhorn/printing-press-library, which has 2,053 GitHub stars. The repository holds 505 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: mvanhorn/printing-press-library on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.