printing-press-amend
Amend a published CLI from one of two input sources: (1) dogfood mode mines the active Claude…
Polish a generated CLI to pass verification and become publish-ready. Runs diagnostics (dogfood, verify, scorecard, go vet, gosec), automatically fixes all issues (verify failures, static-analysis findings, dead code, descriptions, README, MCP tool quality), reports the
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Polish a generated CLI to pass verification and become publish-ready. Runs diagnostics (dogfood, verify, scorecard, go vet, gosec), automatically fixes all issues (verify failures, static-analysis findings, dead code, descriptions, README, MCP tool quality), reports the
name: printing-press-polish description: > Polish a generated CLI to pass verification and become publish-ready. Runs diagnostics (dogfood, verify, scorecard, go vet, gosec), automatically fixes all issues (verify failures, static-analysis findings, dead code, descriptions, README, MCP tool quality), reports the before/after delta, and offers to publish. Use after any /printing-press run, or on any CLI in $PRESS_LIBRARY/. Trigger phrases: "polish", "improve the CLI", "fix verify", "make it publish-ready", "clean up the CLI", "get this ready to ship". context: fork min-binary-version: "4.0.0" allowed-tools: - Bash - Read - Glob - Grep - Write - Edit - AskUserQuestion created_by: user
Polish a generated CLI so it passes verification and is ready to publish.
The retro improves the Printing Press. Polish improves the generated CLI. This skill runs in a forked context (`context: fork`) so its diagnostic and fix loop doesn't pollute the caller — the diagnostic spam, fix iterations, and re-diagnose noise stay scoped to the polish session, and the caller receives a clean summary.
/printing-press-polish redfin /printing-press-polish redfin-pp-cli /printing-press-polish "$PRESS_LIBRARY/redfin"
After any `/printing-press` generation, especially when:
Can also be run standalone on any CLI in `$PRESS_LIBRARY/`.
# min-binary-version: 4.0.0
PRESS_HOME="${PRINTING_PRESS_HOME:-$HOME/printing-press}"
PRESS_LIBRARY="$PRESS_HOME/library"
_pp_check_disk_space() {
_pp_disk_warn_kb="${PRINTING_PRESS_DISK_WARN_KB:-3145728}"
_pp_disk_fail_kb="${PRINTING_PRESS_DISK_FAIL_KB:-524288}"
case "$_pp_disk_warn_kb$_pp_disk_fail_kb" in
""|*[!0-9]*) return 0 ;;
esac
_pp_disk_path="$PRESS_HOME"
while [ ! -e "$_pp_disk_path" ] && [ "$_pp_disk_path" != "/" ]; do
_pp_disk_path="$(dirname "$_pp_disk_path")"
done
_pp_disk_avail_kb="$(df -Pk "$_pp_disk_path" 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN {
if ((getline header) <= 0 || (getline record) <= 0) exit
field_count = split(record, fields)
if (field_count >= 4) print fields[4]
}')"
case "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" in
""|*[!0-9]*) return 0 ;;
esac
if [ "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" -lt "$_pp_disk_fail_kb" ]; then
echo ""
echo "[setup-error] Critically low disk space on the Printing Press workspace volume."
echo "PRESS_DISK_PATH=$_pp_disk_path"
echo "PRESS_DISK_AVAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_avail_kb"
echo "PRESS_DISK_FAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_fail_kb"
echo "Free disk space or set PRINTING_PRESS_HOME to a volume with more room, then re-run this skill."
echo ""
return 1
fi
if [ "$_pp_disk_avail_kb" -lt "$_pp_disk_warn_kb" ]; then
echo ""
echo "[low-disk] Printing Press workspace volume is low on free space."
echo "PRESS_DISK_PATH=$_pp_disk_path"
echo "PRESS_DISK_AVAIL_KB=$_pp_disk_avail_kb"
echo "PRESS_DISK_WARN_KB=$_pp_disk_warn_kb"
echo "This flow may need several GiB for generated files, Go build cache, module downloads, or repository clones."
echo ""
fi
}
_pp_check_disk_space || { return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1; }
# Mid-pipeline callers may pass printing_press_bin: <abs-path> in the args
# bundle. Prefer it so forked polish runs keep using the parent skill's
# preflight-selected binary instead of re-resolving through PATH.
PRINTING_PRESS_BIN="${PRINTING_PRESS_BIN:-}"
if [ -z "$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN" ] && [ -n "${ARGUMENTS:-}" ]; then
PRINTING_PRESS_BIN="$(printf '%s\n' "$ARGUMENTS" | sed -nE 's/^[[:space:]]*printing_press_bin:[[:space:]]*(.+)$/\1/p' | head -1)"
fi
if [ -z "$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN" ]; then
PRINTING_PRESS_BIN="$(command -v cli-printing-press 2>/dev/null || true)"
fi
if [ -z "$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN" ]; then
echo "cli-printing-press binary not found."
echo "Install with: go install github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/v4/cmd/cli-printing-press@latest"
return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
fi
if ! command -v go >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo ""
echo "[setup-error] Go toolchain not found."
echo ""
echo "This Printing Press flow runs Go-based build or validation commands."
echo "Install Go 1.26.6 or newer from https://go.dev/dl/, then verify with:"
echo " go version"
echo "Then re-run this skill."
echo ""
return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
fi
echo "PRINTING_PRESS_BIN=$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN"
_pp_semver_lt() {
if [ -z "${PP_SEMVER_A:-}" ] || [ -z "${PP_SEMVER_B:-}" ]; then
echo "[setup-error] semver comparison inputs are missing." >&2
return 2
fi
awk -v a="${PP_SEMVER_A:-}" -v b="${PP_SEMVER_B:-}" 'BEGIN {
split(a, x, "."); split(b, y, ".")
for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
if ((x[i] + 0) < (y[i] + 0)) exit 0
if ((x[i] + 0) > (y[i] + 0)) exit 1
}
exit 1
}'
}
_pp_go_version_norm() {
printf '%s\n' "${PP_GO_VERSION_INPUT:-}" | sed -nE 's/.*go([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)(\.([0-9]+))?.*/\1.\2.\4/p' | sed -E 's/\.$/.0/'
}
_pp_check_go_currency() {
_pp_go_installed="$(PP_GO_VERSION_INPUT="$(go env GOVERSION 2>/dev/null)" _pp_go_version_norm)"
_pp_go_required="$(PP_GO_VERSION_INPUT="$(go version "$PRINTING_PRESS_BIN" 2>/dev/null)" _pp_go_version_norm)"
PP_SEMVER_A="$_pp_go_installed"
PP_SEMVER_B="$_pp_go_required"
if [ -z "$_pp_go_installed" ] || [ -z "$_pp_go_required" ] || ! _pp_semver_lt; then
return 0
fi
echo ""
if [ "${GOTOOLCHAIN:-auto}" = "local" ]; then
echo "[setup-error] Go $_pp_go_required or newer is required by this cli-printing-press binary (installed: $_pp_go_installed)."
echo "GOTOOLCHAIN=local disables automatic toolchain downloads, so later Go quality gates would fail."
echo "Install Go $_pp_go_required or newer from https://go.dev/dl/, or unset GOTOOLCHAIN."
echo ""
return 1
fi
echo "[go-toolchain-old] Go $_pp_go_required or newer is required by tNothing 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.
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