Agent skill · writing content · mvanhorn
pp-drudgereport
Drudge Report in your terminal, with the editorial signal (splash, red, slot, tenure) the live page broadcasts but... Trigger phrases: `what's on drudge`, `drudge splash`, `drudge breaking`, `what changed on drudge`, `drudge tenure`, `drudge sources this week`, `use drudgereport`, `run drudgereport`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands for extracting editorial signals from Drudge Report that are not commonly known or available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires drudgereport-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
Drudge Report — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the drudgereport-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: drudgereport-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 the task is 'what is Drudge featuring' or 'how has Drudge framed X over time.' It is read-only, the local SQLite store rewards repeated sync runs with deeper analytics, and the agent surface returns bounded JSON. Not the right tool for live breaking news outside Drudge's curation. 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. Editorial signal-aware reading splash — Just the current center-slot splash headline with image, outbound URL, red flag, and how long it has been on splash. When an agent is asked 'what's on Drudge right now?' this is the one-shot bounded answer; no HTML soup to re-parse. breaking — Every headline currently set in red by Drudge's editor, ordered by slot importance. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/drudgereport