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    mvanhorn/cli-printing-press

    Every API has a secret identity. This finds it, absorbs every feature from every competing tool, then builds the GOAT CLI — designed for AI agents first, with SQLite sync, offline search, and compound insight commands.

    ai-agents
    cli
    developer-tools
    api
    cli-generator
    golang
    openapi
    Go
    MIT
    4.9K stars
    533 forks
    4.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 30, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 99 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Generates advanced AI-agent-optimized CLI and MCP server tools from any API or website, including those without OpenAPI specs.
    • Combines comprehensive feature absorption from competing tools with local SQLite persistence and compound commands for unique domain insights.
    • Use for creating token-efficient, agent-native CLIs that enable offline search and complex queries on API data.
    • Use for reverse-engineering undocumented APIs or websites by sniffing traffic to generate usable CLI interfaces.
    • Use for building dual human and IDE agent interfaces with consistent auth, data sync, and verified command correctness.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    Nothing is more valuable than time and money. In a world of AI agents, that's speed and token spend. A well-designed CLI is muscle memory for an agent: no hunting through docs, no wrong turns, no wasted tokens. We built the Printing Press to print the best CLIs in the world for agents.

    It reads the official API docs, studies every popular community CLI and MCP server, sniffs the web for the APIs nobody published (think Google Flights or Dominos), and applies the power-user playbook Peter Steinberger proved with discrawl and gogcli - local SQLite, compound commands, agent-native flags. It fuses all of that and prints a token-efficient Go CLI plus a Claude Code skill plus an MCP server for any API or any website.

    Three CLIs printed by the press, installable today:

    Browse the full catalog of printed CLIs at printingpress.dev or in the Printing Press Library, organized by category, most with full MCP servers.

    Codex users: see docs/CODEX.md to install the Printing Press skills with --agent codex, verify the install, and understand how that differs from /printing-press <api> codex.

    Cursor users: see docs/CURSOR.md for how to install a printed CLI, attach the matching skill, handle auth, and choose CLI vs MCP when your repo does not already document a workflow.

    Excerpt from the mvanhorn/cli-printing-press README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Aug 18: +7

    +535 stars over 87 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +7 on Aug 18.

    Forks

    533+68

    Open issues

    37-208

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