Agent skill

Pp Visit Detroit Blog

by mvanhorn in mvanhorn/printing-press-library

Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports.

Apache-2.0Auto-check: notesBackend & APIs

Install Pp Visit Detroit Blog

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-visit-detroit-blog --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-visit-detroit-blog .claude/skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog && 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-visit-detroit-blog
GitHub stars
2.1k
Token cost
~3.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,265 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
506
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports.

  • Works in 3 steps: Install via the Printing Press… → Verify: visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli… → Ensure the reported install directory is…
  • Phrases: what should I do in Detroit
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites: Install the CLI, When to Use This CLI, When Not to Use This CLI and Unique Capabilities, plus 11 more sections
  • Calls claude, npx and go

What it does

Pp Visit Detroit Blog is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports. Trigger phrases: what should I do in Detroit, Detroit dining articles in Corktown, best things to do in Greektown, read the Detroit donuts article, recent Inside the D blog posts, use visit-detroit-blog, run visit-detroit-blog.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Search implementation and Blog and article writing. 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: what should I do in Detroit
  • Detroit dining articles in Corktown
  • Best things to do in Greektown
  • Read the Detroit donuts article

Example prompts

  • “s official”
  • “/pp-visit-detroit-blog”

Requirements

  • Node.js
  • 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: visit-detroit-blog-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 d9a1696. 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
    • jq

    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 no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

Context cost

Pp Visit Detroit Blog loads about 3.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,265 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.1k

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 d9a1696, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mvanhorn). 1,265 words, ~3,093 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pp-visit-detroit-blog
description
Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports. Trigger phrases: `what should I do in Detroit`, `Detroit dining articles in Corktown`, `best things to do in Greektown`, `read the Detroit donuts article`, `recent Inside the D blog posts`, `use visit-detroit-blog`, `run visit-detroit-blog`.
allowed-tools
Read, Bash
author
user
license
Apache-2.0
argument-hint
<command> [args] | install cli|mcp
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
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     silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
     See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->

Visit Detroit Blog — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the visit-detroit-blog-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 visit-detroit-blog --cli-only
  2. Verify: visit-detroit-blog-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/travel/visit-detroit-blog/cmd/visit-detroit-blog-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

Reach for this CLI when an agent or user needs Detroit travel and editorial recommendations grounded in Visit Detroit's official blog: finding articles by neighborhood and topic together, reading full article bodies offline, discovering related reads, or assembling a shareable reading list. It is the right tool for 'what should I do, eat, or see in <Detroit neighborhood>' questions and for separating editorial from sponsored content. It is not a hotel/restaurant directory — it is the editorial blog.

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.

Queries the website can't express
  • blogs list — Filter Detroit articles by category AND neighborhood AND date window in one query — the slice the website's single-facet search can't express.

    Reach for this when a request combines a topic and a place (and optionally recency) — e.g. 'recent dining articles in Corktown' — instead of issuing several single-facet searches and intersecting them by hand.

    bash
    inside-the-d-pp-cli blogs list --category Dining --region Corktown --since 2026-01-01 --agent
  • blogs related — Find the articles that share the most categories and neighborhoods with a given post, ranked.

    Use this to chain recommendations — after surfacing one good article, hand the user (or yourself) the next best reads without another keyword search.

    bash
    inside-the-d-pp-cli blogs related donuts --limit 5 --agent
  • blogs coverage — Cross-tabulate article counts across every category and every neighborhood to see where coverage is dense or thin.

    Use this to answer 'which neighborhoods have the most Outdoors coverage' or to spot gaps before recommending an under-covered area.

    bash
    inside-the-d-pp-cli blogs coverage --category Outdoors --agent
Take it with you
  • blogs reading-list — Materialize an ordered, deduped reading list (markdown/json/csv) from any filter to a file — with an option to drop sponsored posts for a neutral handout.

    Use this when a person needs to hand a curated, source-stable list to a team or attendee — not a one-off query that disappears when the tab closes.

    bash
    inside-the-d-pp-cli blogs reading-list --region "Downtown Detroit" --category Culture --no-sponsored --output detroit-culture.md

Command Reference

Run visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli sync once to populate the local store, then:

blogs — browse, read, and analyze articles

  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs list — filter articles across category, neighborhood, and date
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs get <slug> — read a full article by slug, URI, or id
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs related <slug> — articles sharing the most categories and neighborhoods
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs coverage — category × neighborhood cross-tab
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs reading-list — export an ordered md/json/csv reading list

Top-level

  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli search <query> — offline ranked full-text search
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli categories — list blog categories with article counts
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli regions — list neighborhoods/regions with article counts
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli recent — newest articles by post date
  • visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli sync — pull all articles into the local store
Finding the right command

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

bash
visit-detroit-blog-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.

Recipes

Recent dining articles in a neighborhood
bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs list --category Dining --region "Eastern Market" --since 2025-01-01

Cross-axis filter: topic plus place plus recency in one query the site's single-facet search can't run.

Neutral attendee reading list
bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs reading-list --region "Downtown Detroit" --category Culture --no-sponsored --output detroit-culture.md

Builds a stable, sponsored-free markdown reading list to hand to a team — every web search is otherwise ephemeral.

Where is the blog dense vs thin?
bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs coverage --category Outdoors

Cross-tabulates Outdoors coverage by neighborhood — a two-dimensional view Algolia's facet API can't return.

Agent: narrow a large result to high-gravity fields
bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli search "patio season" --agent --select title,uri,snippet --limit 5

Pairs --agent with --select so the agent gets only title, URL, and summary instead of full bodies for every hit — bounded context.

Show full SKILL.md (557 more words)Show less
Chain from one good article to the next
bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs related ikea --limit 5 --agent

Returns the most topically and geographically similar posts to an article, as JSON, for follow-up recommendations.

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run visit-detroit-blog-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 long article bodies:

    bash
    visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs list --agent --select title,url,categories
  • 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

  • Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

Output shape

Commands emit a bare JSON array on stdout under --json/--agent or when piped — a single JSON object for single-article commands like blogs get. There is no wrapper envelope, so parse the array directly:

bash
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli blogs list --category Dining --agent | jq '.[].title'

On an interactive terminal with no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select), output is a human-readable table instead. All article data is read from the local SQLite store, which sync populates from Algolia.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless VISIT_DETROIT_BLOG_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or VISIT_DETROIT_BLOG_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.

visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli --profile briefing blogs
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli profile list --json
visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli profile show briefing
visit-detroit-blog-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 visit-detroit-blog-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 visit-detroit-blog-pp-mcp -- visit-detroit-blog-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

  1. Check if installed: which visit-detroit-blog-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
    visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
  4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: visit-detroit-blog-pp-cli <command> --help.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in cli-skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog of mvanhorn/printing-press-library.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d9a1696

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Questions about Pp Visit Detroit Blog

What does Pp Visit Detroit Blog do?

Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports. Pp Visit Detroit Blog is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports.

When should I use Pp Visit Detroit Blog?

Pp Visit Detroit Blog fits situations like: phrases: what should I do in Detroit; detroit dining articles in Corktown; best things to do in Greektown; read the Detroit donuts article.

How do I install Pp Visit Detroit Blog in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Pp Visit Detroit Blog in Codex?

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

Can I use Pp Visit Detroit Blog 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-visit-detroit-blog -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-visit-detroit-blog, .gemini/skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog, .github/skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog and .opencode/skills/pp-visit-detroit-blog in your project.

What does Pp Visit Detroit Blog need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Pp Visit Detroit Blog needs the command-line tools its instructions call (claude, npx, go and jq). Our summary lists: Node.js. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Bash.

Does Pp Visit Detroit Blog 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 Visit Detroit Blog 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 Visit Detroit Blog use?

Pp Visit Detroit Blog 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 Visit Detroit Blog use?

About 3.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k 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 Visit Detroit Blog?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pp Visit Detroit Blog: Duckdb Docs (duckdb/duckdb-skills, 603 stars), Figure (vectorize-io/hindsight, 48k stars), Blog Taxonomy (AgriciDaniel/claude-blog, 2.3k stars) and Wordpress Content (jezweb/claude-skills, 1.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Pp Visit Detroit Blog?

mvanhorn (a GitHub user) maintains it in mvanhorn/printing-press-library, which has 2,056 GitHub stars. The repository holds 506 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 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.