Agent skill · creative production · mvanhorn
pp-art-goat
OmniMuseum aggregator for a daily contemplative art practice — eight open-access museum and astronomy APIs as one local corpus. Trigger phrases: `sit with a piece of art`, `today's piece of art`, `what's APOD`, `browse art collections`, `museum aggregator`, `open access art practice`, `8-source contemplative tool`, `art journal stats`, `walk a theme across museums`, `journal compare sits`, `revisit a past sit`, `bridge from last sit mood`, `artist arc across sources`, `use art-goat`, `run art-goat`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds unique commands for contemplative art practice that aren't available in public APIs, enhancing the AI's ability to guide users in art engagement.
What it needs
Requires art-goat-pp-cli installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
art-goat — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the art-goat-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: art-goat-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 Use art-goat when you want a daily contemplative practice grounded in real museum and astronomy collections. It's the right choice when one piece of extended attention is more useful than skimming a feed of fifty. It's not the right choice for shopping for art, building a catalog, or doing research that needs the museum's full canonical metadata in raw form — for that, use the AIC API directly. 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. Contemplative practice sit — Sit with one piece of art for a fixed period. Opens the image in your browser, shows the curator's description, runs a quiet timer, and captures your reflection in the journal. Use this when you want to spend deliberate time with one piece instead of skimming a feed. The reflection is persisted locally for later search. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/art-goat