Pp Seek

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SEEK — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the seek-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 seek --cli-only

2. Verify: seek-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/productivity/seek/cmd/seek-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.

seek-pp-cli searches Australian and New Zealand job listings, pulls full job details through SEEK's own JSON endpoints (never the bot-gated HTML), and keeps every job it has seen in a local SQLite store. On top of that it computes salary percentiles (salary), hiring-volume trends over time (trends), per-company hiring scans (company), and runs all your saved searches for new postings in one command (me new-jobs). No API key; no hosted scraper.

When to Use This CLI

Use seek-pp-cli when an agent needs to search or monitor Australian/NZ job listings, pull structured job details, compute salary statistics, or track hiring volume over time. It caches every job it fetches to a local SQLite store, so salary and trends answer aggregate questions the SEEK site and every scraper cannot.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI to submit a job application or edit a SEEK profile/resume — it is read-only against your account.
• Do not use it for job boards other than SEEK (Indeed, LinkedIn, JobStreet non-AU/NZ) — it only speaks to au.seek.com.
• Do not use it for the SEEK partner/hirer Job Posting API (developer.seek.com) — that is a different, credentialed product.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

• salary — Get salary percentiles, a histogram, and the pay-disclosure rate for a role and location by sampling matching listings (which it also caches locally).

  Reach for this instead of fetching hundreds of listings and computing pay statistics yourself.

  seek-pp-cli salary "registered nurse" --where "Melbourne VIC" --agent

• trends — See how job-listing volume for a classification, region, or work arrangement changes over time, bucketed from the listing dates of every job the CLI has cached, with period-over-period deltas.

  Use this when the question is 'is hiring up or down', not 'what is open right now'.

  seek-pp-cli trends --by classification --since 90d --agent

Cross-entity joins

• company — Profile one advertiser: their company details and review ratings plus every current opening and a local history of how many roles they've posted.

  Reach for this for 'who is hiring for X' market scans and interview prep instead of scrolling a company's SEEK page.

  seek-pp-cli company "Atlassian" --active --agent

• me new-jobs — Run every one of your SEEK saved searches and return only the postings that aren't already in your local store, tagged by which search matched.

  This is the daily-driver command for an active job hunt; use it instead of re-scrolling the SEEK site.

  seek-pp-cli me new-jobs --since 7d --agent

Agent-native plumbing

• listings facets — Break a live query down by classification, work type, pay band, or region by tallying the sampled result pages — no local store needed.

  Use this for a fast shape-of-the-market answer before committing to a full search or a sync.

  seek-pp-cli listings facets --keywords "data analyst" --where "Brisbane QLD" --group-by classification --agent

• classifications — Browse or resolve SEEK's numeric classification and subclassification IDs so filtered searches can target them precisely.

  Call this first when you need a --classification value for listings search.

  seek-pp-cli classifications software

Discovery Signals

This CLI was generated with browser-observed traffic context.

• Capture coverage: 12 API entries from 60 total network entries
• Protocols: rest_json (95% confidence), graphql (95% confidence), ssr_embedded_data (80% confidence)
• Auth signals: cookie — cookies: SEEK_SESSION; none
• Generation hints: primary transport: standard_http against https://au.seek.com, search surface is REST JSON at /api/jobsearch/v5/search; job-detail and account surfaces are GraphQL at POST /graphql, graphql endpoint rejects introspection and enforces a real schema; jobDetails(id: ID!) and jobSearchV7(params: JobSearchV7QueryInput!) verified working with hand-written queries, AU and NZ share the au.seek.com host; switch via siteKey=AU-Main|NZ-Main and locale=en-AU|en-NZ, authenticated surface uses same-origin session cookies on .seek.com (no Authorization header, no CSRF token on read queries); emit auth login --chrome / press-auth cookie companion, requires_browser_auth for the me/* commands only; all jobs/* commands are unauthenticated
• Candidate command ideas: search — GET /api/jobsearch/v5/search — keyword+location+filter job search, the primary workflow; get — POST /graphql jobDetails(id) — full job description, salary, apply link; count — POST /graphql jobSearchV7 JobCountV7 — result count for a filter combination without fetching rows; recommended — POST /graphql JobDetailsRecommendedJobs(jobDetailsId) — similar jobs; saved-searches — viewer -> ApacSavedSearch{id,name,query,createdDate,newToYouCountLabel,subscribeToNewJobs} (cookie auth); saved-jobs — viewer.savedJobs(first) (cookie auth); applied-jobs — viewer.searchAppliedJobs / applied job history (cookie auth)
• Caveats: hand_written_queries: GraphQL operation bodies were reconstructed by the agent and verified against the live endpoint (HTTP 200); they are leaner than the SPA's persisted queries. jobDetailsPersonalised/GetMatchedQualities field selections were observed but not fully transcribed.; cookie_replay_unverified: Cookie auth confirmed working in-browser (viewer queries returned data). Replay outside the browser was not validated this run because session cookie values were deliberately not extracted; Phase 5 live smoke or first auth login --chrome will confirm.

Command Reference

listings — Search and inspect SEEK job listings

• seek-pp-cli listings — Search job listings by keyword, location, and filters

me — Your SEEK account: saved searches, saved jobs, applied jobs (needs auth login --chrome)

• seek-pp-cli me job-status — Check which of the given job IDs you've saved or already applied to
• seek-pp-cli me saved-jobs — List jobs you've saved on SEEK
• seek-pp-cli me saved-searches — List your saved searches / job alerts

Finding the right command

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

seek-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

Daily new-jobs digest

seek-pp-cli me new-jobs --since 24h --agent

Runs every saved search and returns only postings not already in the local store.

Salary benchmark for a role

seek-pp-cli salary "data engineer" --where "All Australia" --agent

Percentiles and disclosure rate over the listings the command samples and caches for that role and location.

Competitor hiring snapshot

seek-pp-cli company "Canva" --agent --select openings.title,openings.location,openings.listingDate

All current openings for one advertiser with just the fields an agent needs from a large nested response.

Is ICT hiring cooling?

seek-pp-cli trends --by classification --since 180d --agent

Period-over-period listing counts bucketed from the listing dates of jobs cached locally.

Shape of a market before a full search

seek-pp-cli listings facets --keywords "registered nurse" --where "Perth WA" --group-by salary --agent

Per-facet counts tallied from the sampled result pages, zero extra rows fetched.

Auth Setup

Job search, job details, salary data, and company profiles need no authentication. The me commands (saved searches, saved jobs, applied status) read your SEEK session: run seek-pp-cli auth login --chrome once while logged in to au.seek.com in Chrome and the CLI imports the session cookie. Nothing is written to your SEEK account.

Run seek-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:

  seek-pp-cli listings --agent --select id,title,teaser

• 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

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

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: SEEK_CONFIG_DIR, SEEK_DATA_DIR, SEEK_STATE_DIR, SEEK_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, SEEK_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 seek-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": {
      "seek": {
        "command": "seek-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "SEEK_HOME": "/srv/seek"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use SEEK_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 SEEK_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, 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=$(cat /path/to/question.txt)
seek-pp-cli recall "$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>", "seek-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 `seek-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; seek-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.