Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-etherpad
Printing Press CLI for Etherpad. Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor scalable to thousands of simultaneous real time users. It provides full...
Why this skill is useful
Adds multiple executable commands for managing Etherpad instances that are not available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires etherpad-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
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/productivity/etherpad/SKILL.md, regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". --> Etherpad — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the etherpad-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: etherpad-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. Command Reference anonymize-author — Manage anonymize author etherpad-pp-cli anonymize-author — anonymizes an author across all their edits append-chat-message — Manage append chat message etherpad-pp-cli append-chat-message — appends a chat message append-text — Manage append text etherpad-pp-cli append-text — appends text to a pad check-token — Manage check token etherpad-pp-cli check-token — returns ok when the current API token is valid compact-pad — Manage compact pad etherpad-pp-cli compact-pad — compacts a pad's revision history, keeping recent revisions only copy-pad — Manage copy pad etherpad-pp-cli copy-pad — copies a pad with full history and chat copy-pad-without-history — Manage copy pad without history etherpad-pp-cli copy-pad-without-history — copies a pad without history or chat create-author — Manage create au …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-etherpad