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 a comprehensive set of executable commands for managing Etherpad instances that extend the AI's capabilities in collaborative editing environments.
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
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 author etherpad-pp-cli create-author — creates a new author create-author-if-not-exists-for — Manage create author if not exists for etherpad-pp-cli create-author-if-not-exists-for — this functions helps you to map your application author ids to Etherpad author ids create-diff-html — Manage create diff html etherpad-pp-cli create-diff-html — return …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-etherpad--13ae2d