Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-open-library
Use Open Library source-backed recipes for book search, ISBN edition lookup, author works, work metadata, editions, and subject browsing. Trigger phrases: Open Library, book metadata, ISBN lookup, author bibliography, editions, subject books, open-library-pp-cli.
What it needs
About 2k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Open Library - Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the open-library-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: open-library-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). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: 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 Use open-library-pp-cli when an agent needs source-backed Open Library metadata: Search for book/work candidates by title or keyword phrase. Resolve ISBNs to Open Library edition metadata. Find an author record and fetch a bounded sample of their works. Fetch canonical work metadata by Open Library work ID. List bounded editions for a known work. Browse subject works and optional subject facets. When Not To Use Do not use it for borrowing, waitlists, patron data, account actions, or catalog edits. Do not use it for bulk harvesting; use Open Library data dumps for bulk access. Do not scrape Open Library HTML pages. Do not treat subject facets as stable; Open Library documents the Subjects API as experimental. Setup No API key is required. The module declares go 1.26.4 so environments with Go toolchain auto-download disabled should use Go 1.26.4 or newer for direct installs. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/open-library