CLI Printing Press: Print the best CLIs in the world for agents (4.9k stars)
What it does
All text below is quoted directly from the project README.
>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.
Why these CLIs win:
- Local-first data layer. High-gravity resources get domain-specific SQLite tables (not JSON blobs), FTS5 full-text search indexes, and incremental sync with cursor tracking.
- Compound commands no wrapper can do. Once data lives in SQLite, commands like stale, health, bottleneck, and reconcile become possible - they join across resources and analyze history.
- Agent-native by default. Human-friendly tables when you're in a terminal. Auto-JSON when piped, no --json flag needed.
- No spec? No problem. Don't have an OpenAPI spec? Point the press at a website. It launches a browser, captures traffic, reverse-engineers the API, and generates the spec for you.
- Dual interface from one spec. Every API gets a Cobra CLI (<api>-pp-cli) and an MCP server (<api>-pp-mcp). Same client, same store, same auth.
- Verified, not vibes. Four mechanical checks - scorecard, dogfood, proof-of-behavior, live API smoke test - catch hallucinated paths, dead flags, auth mismatches, and broken data pipelines before you ship.
>curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Repository
mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
Repository stats
|Metric|Value|
|:-|:-|
|Stars|4,870|
|Forks|532|
|Last release|v4.34.2 (2026-10-25)|
|Languages|Go 77.4%, Go Template 20.6%, Python 1.7%|
|Contributors|107|
|AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)|@claude (644 commits), @cursoragent (268 commits), @codex (5 commits)|
|AI co-authored commits|Claude: 645, Codex: 1, Cursor: 266|
Main contributor
|Field|Value|
|:-|:-|
|Name|Trevin Chow|
|GitHub|@tmchow|
|Commits to this repo|1,521 (top contributor)|
|Bio|Exploring and building. Ex: Big Cartel, Nike, Sketchy, Axon, Microsoft|
|Company / Location|Seattle, WA|
|Followers|699|
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CLI Printing Press: Print the best CLIs in the world for agents (4.9k stars) What it does All text below is quoted directly from the project README. >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. Why these CLIs win: - Local-first data layer. High-gravity resources get domain-specific SQLite tables (not JSON blobs), FTS5 full-text search indexes, and incremental sync with cursor tracking. - Compound commands no wrapper can do. Once data lives in SQLite, commands like stale, health, bottleneck, and reconcile become possible - they join across resources and analyze history. - Agent-native by default. Human-friendly tables when you're in a terminal. Auto-JSON when piped, no --json flag needed. - No spec? No problem. Don't have an OpenAPI spec? Point the press at a website. It launches a browser, captures traffic, reverse-engineers the API, and generates the spec for you. - Dual interface from one spec. Every API gets a Cobra CLI (<api>-pp-cli) and an MCP server (<api>-pp-mcp). Same client, same store, same auth. - Verified, not vibes. Four mechanical checks - scorecard, dogfood, proof-of-behavior, live API smoke test - catch hallucinated paths, dead flags, auth mismatches, and broken data pipelines before you ship. >curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press/main/scripts/install.sh | bash Repository mvanhorn/cli-printing-press Repository stats |Metric|Value| |:-|:-| |Stars|4,870| |Forks|532| |Last release|v4.34.2 (2026-10-25)| |Languages|Go 77.4%, Go Template 20.6%, Python 1.7%| |Contributors|107| |AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)|@claude (644 commits), @cursoragent (268 commits), @codex (5 commits)| |AI co-authored commits|Claude: 645, Codex: 1, Cursor: 266| Main contributor |Field|Value| |:-|:-| |Name|Trevin Chow| |GitHub|@tmchow| |Commits to this repo|1,521 (top contributor)| |Bio|Exploring and building. Ex: Big Cartel, Nike, Sketchy, Axon, Microsoft| |Company / Location|Seattle, WA| |Followers|699| ────────────────────────────── 📌 How many great GitHub repos have you discovered and completely forgotten about? Don't let another useful tool disappear into your Reddit feed. Get the community's best repos, organized by category, plus key takeaways from real developer discussions, delivered to your inbox twice a week. 📬 Never lose track of great repos again. Subscribe free.
给 API 写 CLI，又得翻文档？ cli-printing-press 给任意 API 印 Go CLI 和 MCP：本地 SQLite 同步，离线能查能拼。 适合给 agent 配趁手 CLI 的人，先从常用 API 印起。 先给哪个 API 印，GitHub 还是别的？ #CLI #MCP @grok mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
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mvanhorn/cli-printing-press Please star and install some MCPs/CLIs for your agents.