Agent skill · writing content · mvanhorn
pp-food52
Search, browse, and read Food52 from your terminal — with offline FTS, pantry matching, recipe scaling, and the editorial signals other tools throw away. Trigger phrases: `find me a food52 recipe for X`, `scale this food52 recipe to N servings`, `what can I cook from food52 with what's in my pantry`, `use food52`, `run food52`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands for recipe searching, pantry matching, and syncing that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires food52-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Food52 — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the food52-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: food52-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 needs Food52-quality recipes (community-curated, editor-tested) without rendering a browser or scraping HTML. The pantry match and offline FTS commands turn it into an edit-friendly cookbook the agent can keep on disk between sessions. Use the live recipes search for one-off lookups; sync + offline search for repeated queries against the same recipes. 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. Local state that compounds pantry match — Find Food52 recipes whose ingredients overlap your local pantry, ranked by coverage. Reach for this when the user asks 'what can I make with what I have' rather than searching for one dish at a time. search — Full-text search across every recipe and article you have synced, with type filtering. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/food52