Agent skill · creative production · mvanhorn
pp-allrecipes
Every Allrecipes recipe in your terminal — cached as data, with pantry-aware search, Bayesian-smoothed ranking, and one-line grocery lists. Trigger phrases: `search Allrecipes for X`, `find a recipe for brownies`, `scale this Allrecipes recipe`, `build a grocery list from these recipes`, `what can I cook with what I have`, `use allrecipes-pp-cli`, `run allrecipes`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a CLI tool that enables pantry-aware recipe searching and grocery list generation, which the AI cannot generate from knowledge alone.
What it needs
Requires allrecipes-pp-cli installed locally. About 9k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Allrecipes — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the allrecipes-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: 2. Verify: allrecipes-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): 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 Allrecipes data as data, not as a webpage: searching for proven recipes, fetching ingredient lists in structured form, building grocery lists across multiple recipes, scaling for different serving counts, or filtering by what's in the pantry. The local SQLite cache makes iterative meal-planning workflows fast — every recipe fetched is queryable forever via pantry, with-ingredient, top-rated, and dietary. Skip this CLI when the user wants a multi-site comparison (different tool) or when they need authenticated features like saved recipes or meal plans (intentionally not supported). 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. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/allrecipes