Pp Tidycal

<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
     This file is a verbatim mirror of library/productivity/tidycal/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/". -->

Tidycal — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the tidycal-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 tidycal --cli-only

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

Unique Capabilities

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

Agentic scheduling

• brief — Produce a contact-aware schedule brief for a day or date range.

  Use this before drafting prep notes or deciding whether a booking needs attention.

  tidycal-pp-cli brief --date today --format json

• triage — Identify booking problems such as missing meeting URLs, duplicate contacts, off-hours bookings, cancelled bookings, and incomplete contact data.

  Use this to decide which bookings require operator review.

  tidycal-pp-cli triage --from today --to +7d --format json

• propose-times — Fetch available TidyCal timeslots for a booking type and rank a paste-ready shortlist by date window, timezone, preference, and weekend policy.

  Use this when proposing meeting options in chat or email.

  tidycal-pp-cli propose-times 123 --from today --to +14d --count 3 --format json

• followups — Create an AI-ready follow-up queue from recent bookings without sending messages or notifications.

  Use this to prepare follow-up tasks after recent meetings.

  tidycal-pp-cli followups --from -7d --to today --format json

• assisted-book — Book on behalf of a contact through an inspectable dry-run and explicit confirmation gate.

  Use this only when the operator has approved the booking details.

  tidycal-pp-cli assisted-book 123 --name Ada --email ada@example.com --slot 2026-06-02T15:00:00Z --dry-run --format json

Command Reference

booking-types — Manage booking types

• tidycal-pp-cli booking-types create — Create a new booking type.
• tidycal-pp-cli booking-types list — Get a list of booking types.

bookings — Manage bookings

• tidycal-pp-cli bookings get — Get a booking by ID.
• tidycal-pp-cli bookings list — Get a list of bookings.

contacts — Manage contacts

• tidycal-pp-cli contacts create — Create a new contact.
• tidycal-pp-cli contacts list — Get a list of contacts.

me — Manage me

• tidycal-pp-cli me — Get account details.

teams — Manage teams

• tidycal-pp-cli teams get — Get details of a specific team.
• tidycal-pp-cli teams list — Get a list of teams the authenticated user has access to.

Finding the right command

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

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

tidycal-pp-cli auth set-token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

Or set TIDYCAL_API_TOKEN as an environment variable.

Run tidycal-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:

  tidycal-pp-cli booking-types list --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, and --ignore-missing only when a missing delete target should count as success