Agent skill · marketing growth · mvanhorn
pp-espn
Use this skill whenever the user asks about live sports scores, standings, team stats, game summaries (with box score, leaders, scoring plays, odds, and win probability), NFL / NBA / MLB / NHL / NCAA / MLS / EPL / WNBA games, team schedules, polls, or rankings. ESPN sports CLI with live scores across 10 leagues, offline search, head-to-head comparisons, and rich per-game summary payloads. No API key required. Triggers on natural phrasings like 'what's the score of the Lakers game', 'Patriots schedule this week', 'NFL standings', 'box score for tonight's Mavs game', 'Chiefs vs Eagles head to head', 'who's on top of the AP poll'.
Why this skill is useful
Provides niche commands for accessing live sports data and detailed game summaries that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires espn-pp-cli installed locally. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
ESPN — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the espn-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: espn-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 when a user wants a quick sports lookup - current score, standings, upcoming schedule, head-to-head record, or a rich per-game summary (box score, leaders, scoring plays, odds, win probability). Also good for cross-league discovery (today) and offline search across synced data. Don't reach for this if the user has a paid feed like Stats Perform or Sportradar that provides cleaner data, or if they need real-time websocket updates (ESPN's endpoints are polling-only). For betting odds in isolation, the per-game summary payload includes them but there is no league-wide odds command. Unique Capabilities Commands that only work because of local sync + cross-league tooling. Cross-league discovery today — Today's scores across all major sports in one call. The fastest "what's on tonight" answer without picking a sport first. trending — Most-followed athletes and teams across all leagues, ranked by current popularity. Good for "who is hot right now" without naming a sport. dashboard — Reads [favorites] from ~/.config/espn-pp-cli/config.toml and shows scores for each favorited team across leagues, in one call. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/espn