--- name: pp-myanimelist description: "The entire public MyAnimeList in one binary, plus offline analytics the site itself cannot answer. Trigger phrases: `look up an anime on MyAnimeList`, `what anime airs tonight`, `watch order for this series`, `is this anime worth starting`, `search MyAnimeList for a manga`, `track my anime progress locally`." author: "Som Samantray" license: "Apache-2.0" argument-hint: "anime show 52991 | install cli|mcp" allowed-tools: "Read Bash" metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - myanimelist-pp-cli install: - kind: go bins: [myanimelist-pp-cli] module: github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/myanimelist/cmd/myanimelist-pp-cli --- # MyAnimeList — Printing Press CLI ## Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the `myanimelist-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 `$HOME/.local/bin` on macOS/Linux and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin` on Windows: ```bash npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install myanimelist --cli-only ``` 2. Verify: `myanimelist-pp-cli --version` 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on `$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 `$PATH` instead: ```bash go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/myanimelist/cmd/myanimelist-pp-cli@latest ``` If `--version` reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on `$PATH`. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Search, inspect, and rank anime and manga from the terminal with no API key, no OAuth, and no browser. Everything you look at is cached in SQLite so it stays searchable offline, and local commands like `drift`, `week`, and `franchise gap` answer questions MyAnimeList has no page for: how a score moved, what airs tonight in your timezone, and which franchise entries you skipped. ## When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent or a person needs MyAnimeList data without registering an application or holding a token: title lookups, seasonal and ranking exploration, cast and staff research, and analytics over score and status distributions. It is also the right tool for local watch tracking when a user does not want their list tied to an account. It is well suited to scripted seasonal planning, backlog triage, and franchise audits because every read is cached and every command emits JSON. ## Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: - Do not use it to stream, download, or watch anime; it returns metadata and streaming links only. - Do not use it to modify a MyAnimeList account: there is no authenticated write path, by design. - Do not use it as a general anime database across sites; it reads MyAnimeList alone and does not merge AniList, Kitsu, or Shikimori data. - Do not use it for bulk crawling of the whole catalog; it exposes no catalog enumeration surface. ## Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. ### Reception analytics the site hides - **`anime divisive`** — See whether a title is universally loved or bitterly split, instead of reading one average score. _Use it before committing to a long series when the average score hides a love-it-or-hate-it split._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime divisive 5114 --json ``` - **`anime drop-risk`** — Judge how likely a title is to be abandoned before you commit dozens of episodes to it. _Use it to triage a plan-to-watch backlog by follow-through rather than by average score._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime drop-risk 21 --json ``` - **`anime consistency`** — See whether a show improves, holds, or falls apart across its episodes using per-episode poll data. _Use it to decide whether to keep watching mid-season rather than finishing a dud._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime consistency 52991 --json ``` ### Local state that compounds - **`drift`** — See how a title's score, member count, favorites, and rank have moved since you last looked. _Reach for it when a question depends on change over time rather than the current number._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli drift --since 30d --json ``` - **`week`** — Get a timezone-correct seven-day grid of just the shows you track, with same-hour collisions flagged. _Use it to plan what to watch tonight without hand-converting Japan time for every show._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli week --json ``` ### Franchise intelligence - **`adaptation`** — Learn whether an anime covered its source manga and how much source material is left. _Use it when a user asks where to pick up the manga after the anime._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli adaptation 52991 --json ``` - **`franchise gap`** — Find the sequel, movie, or side story you skipped in every franchise you have already started. _Use it to catch missing entries before starting a new season of a franchise._ ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli franchise gap --json ``` ## Command Reference **anime** — Browse, search, and inspect anime titles - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime characters` — Characters and their Japanese/English voice actors for an anime - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime episodes` — Episode table with titles, air dates, poll averages, and reply counts - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime forum` — Discussion boards attached to an anime title - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime get` — Fetch one anime title's full detail page by MyAnimeList id - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime list` — Search anime with the site's full advanced filters (query, format, score, airing status, rating, year range, genre - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime moreinfo` — Extended credits, external links, and full theme-song credits - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime pictures` — Image gallery (posters, key visuals, screenshots) for an anime - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime recommendations` — Community recommendations for an anime, with recommendation counts - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime reviews` — Community reviews with scores, helpful counts, and spoiler flags - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime stats` — Score distribution (1-10 with vote counts) and status distribution for an anime - `myanimelist-pp-cli anime videos` — Promotional videos and trailers for an anime **character** — Characters - `myanimelist-pp-cli character ` — A character's profile with appearances and voice actors **forum** — Public forum boards and topics - `myanimelist-pp-cli forum boards` — All forum boards with their current topic counts - `myanimelist-pp-cli forum topic` — One forum topic and its posts - `myanimelist-pp-cli forum topics` — Topics in one forum board **genre** — Browse by genre, theme, or demographic - `myanimelist-pp-cli genre anime` — Anime in a genre, theme, or demographic - `myanimelist-pp-cli genre manga` — Manga in a genre, theme, or demographic **instant** — Instant cross-entity search - `myanimelist-pp-cli instant` — Instant search across anime, manga, characters, and people (the site's own suggest API, JSON) **magazine** — Manga serialization magazines - `myanimelist-pp-cli magazine ` — A magazine's page with every serialized title **manga** — Browse, search, and inspect manga, novels, and one-shots - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga characters` — Characters credited in a manga - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga get` — Fetch one manga title's full detail page by MyAnimeList id - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga list` — Search manga with the site's advanced filters - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga moreinfo` — Extended credits and external links for a manga - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga pictures` — Image gallery for a manga - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga recommendations` — Community recommendations for a manga - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga reviews` — Community reviews for a manga - `myanimelist-pp-cli manga stats` — Score distribution and status distribution for a manga **member** — Public MyAnimeList user profiles and lists - `myanimelist-pp-cli member anime-list` — A public anime list as JSON rows (status, score, progress, tags); no credential required - `myanimelist-pp-cli member get` — A public member profile: statistics, favorites, and recent activity (no credential required) - `myanimelist-pp-cli member manga-list` — A public manga list as JSON rows; no credential required - `myanimelist-pp-cli member statistics` — A member's public aggregate statistics **news** — Anime and manga news - `myanimelist-pp-cli news get` — A single news article, body included - `myanimelist-pp-cli news list` — Latest news headlines with pagination **person** — Voice actors and staff - `myanimelist-pp-cli person ` — A person's page: animeography, voice roles, and staff credits **ranking** — Top anime and manga rankings - `myanimelist-pp-cli ranking anime` — Top anime by type: all, airing, upcoming, tv, movie, ova, ona, special, bypopularity, favorite - `myanimelist-pp-cli ranking manga` — Top manga by type: all, manga, novels, lightnovels, oneshots, doujin, manhwa, manhua, bypopularity, favorite **season** — Seasonal anime charts - `myanimelist-pp-cli season archive` — Index of every past season - `myanimelist-pp-cli season current` — The season airing right now - `myanimelist-pp-cli season later` — Upcoming seasons announced but not yet airing (the `upcoming` path 404s; `later` is the real route) - `myanimelist-pp-cli season list` — Full seasonal chart for a year and season, grouped by format - `myanimelist-pp-cli season schedule` — The weekly airing schedule, optionally shifted to a timezone the site understands **studio** — Animation studios and licensors - `myanimelist-pp-cli studio ` — A studio's or licensor's page with its full production list ## Freshness Contract This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In `--data-source auto` mode, those paths check `sync_state` and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. `--data-source local` never refreshes. `--data-source live` reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set `MYANIMELIST_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1` to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection. Covered paths: Real command paths are discoverable at runtime: - `myanimelist-pp-cli --help` for the 15 resource groups and the hand-written commands - `myanimelist-pp-cli --help` for that group's endpoint commands - `myanimelist-pp-cli which "" --json` to map a capability to a command - `myanimelist-pp-cli agent-context` for the full machine-readable command tree When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at `meta.freshness`. Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment. ### Finding the right command When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly: ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli which "" ``` `which` resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code `0` means at least one match; exit code `2` means no confident match — fall back to `--help` or use a narrower query. `--json` (and other machine formats) keep that exit-2 contract and write `{"matches":[]}` on stdout so agents can inspect the envelope without treating a miss as success. ## Recipes ### Narrow a title record for an agent ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime get 52991 --agent --select id,title,score,episodes,status,genres,studios ``` Title pages are large; --select keeps only the fields an agent needs. ### Trim nested instant-search results ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli instant --query frieren --entity-type anime --agent --select categories.items.name,categories.items.payload.score ``` The suggest response nests categories and payloads; dotted --select flattens the useful fields. ### Is this show split or universally loved? ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime divisive 5114 ``` Turns the 1-10 vote distribution into a polarization reading. ### Audit a franchise you started ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli franchise gap ``` Lists entries missing from franchises already in your local library. ### Plan the week in your own timezone ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli week ``` Shows only your tracked shows, with same-hour collisions flagged. ## Auth Setup No credentials, ever. The CLI reads MyAnimeList's public pages and its own suggest endpoint over plain HTTP. There is no API key to set, no OAuth flow to complete, and no session cookie to keep alive. Requests are polite by default: a descriptive User-Agent, one request per second, and a 24-hour cache so repeat reads cost nothing. Run `myanimelist-pp-cli doctor` to verify setup. ## Agent Mode Add `--agent` to any command. Expands to: `--json --compact --no-input --no-color`. Global format flags share one contract on promoted, novel, sync, and `--deliver` paths: - `--json` — one JSON document on stdout (sync progress events go to stderr) - `--compact` — keep identity/status/timestamp fields; does not change the document vs stream shape - `--csv` / `--plain` — tabular rows (collection envelopes unwrap to the row array) - `--quiet` — one identity value per row, no envelope - **Pipeable** — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr - **Filterable** — `--select` keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs: ```bash myanimelist-pp-cli anime show 52991 --agent --select id,title,score,genres ``` - **Previewable** — `--dry-run` shows the request without sending - **Offline-friendly** — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available - **Non-interactive** — never prompts, every input is a flag - **Explicit confirmation** — `--agent` does not imply `--yes`; pass `--yes` separately only after the target, arguments, and side effects are clear ### Response envelope Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope: ```json { "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."}, "results": } ``` Parse `.results` for data and `.meta.source` to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable `N results (live)` summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal AND no machine-format flag (`--json`, `--csv`, `--compact`, `--quiet`, `--plain`, `--select`) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout. ## Paths and state Agents should treat the CLI's path resolver as part of the runtime contract: - Use `--home ` for one invocation, or set `MYANIMELIST_HOME=` to relocate all four path kinds under one root. - Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: `MYANIMELIST_CONFIG_DIR`, `MYANIMELIST_DATA_DIR`, `MYANIMELIST_STATE_DIR`, `MYANIMELIST_CACHE_DIR`. - Resolution order is per-kind env var, `--home`, `MYANIMELIST_HOME`, XDG (`XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, `XDG_DATA_HOME`, `XDG_STATE_HOME`, `XDG_CACHE_HOME`), then platform defaults. - `config` contains settings like `config.toml` and profiles. `data` contains `data.db` (the local SQLite mirror and your `track` library). `state` contains persisted queries, jobs, and `teach.log`. `cache` contains regenerable HTTP/cache files. This CLI needs no credentials, so there is no credential store. - Run `myanimelist-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn` to surface path warnings. `agent-context` exposes a schema v4 `paths` block for agents that need the resolved dirs. - For MCP, pass relocation through the MCP host config. The MCP binary does not inherit CLI flags: ```json { "mcpServers": { "myanimelist": { "command": "myanimelist-pp-mcp", "env": { "MYANIMELIST_HOME": "/srv/myanimelist" } } } } ``` Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit `--home` for that kind. Use `MYANIMELIST_HOME` or per-kind vars as durable fleet levers, and use `--home` only for a single invocation. Relocation is not reversible by unsetting env vars; move files manually before clearing `MYANIMELIST_HOME`, or `doctor` will not find your database and library under the former root. ## Automatic learning This CLI ships a self-capturing learning loop. The CLI does its own bookkeeping: every invocation is journaled locally, a failed flag followed by a corrected retry auto-derives a `flag_alias` candidate, and a `teach` on a query family without a playbook auto-synthesizes a `playbook_candidate` from the session's journal. Your job is judgment only: `recall` first, act on surfaced candidates, `teach` the final answer, `playbook amend` when you observe a correction. You never record failures by hand. ### Step 1: `recall` before any discovery Before list/search/drill commands on a new user question, pass the question as an argv or MCP tool argument to `recall --agent`. Do not interpolate user-controlled text into a shell command line. Quoted `recall ""` breaks on an apostrophe, which is ordinary English. A quoted heredoc breaks when a body line equals the delimiter, and that delimiter is published in these docs. Write the question with a non-shell file-writing tool, then read it back as data: ```bash # Write the question verbatim with your file-writing tool (no shell involved). # Command substitution on a file only ever yields data — the shell never # parses the file's bytes as syntax. QUERY=$(cat /path/to/question.txt) myanimelist-pp-cli recall "$QUERY" --agent ``` Prefer MCP: pass the question as the tool's query argument. `"$QUERY"` after a file read is argv-safe; putting the question itself in the command text is not. The response envelope: ```json { "query": "...", "normalized": "", "query_entities": ["..."], "found": true | false, "match_score": 0.0, "results": [ { "resource_id": "...", "resource_type": "...", "venue": "...", "confidence": 2, "entity_match": "exact|partial|unknown", "source": "taught|preseed|pattern", "warnings": ["..."] } ], "mismatches": [ /* only when --debug-mismatches */ ], "warnings": [ /* top-level */ ], "candidates": [ { "id": 12, "class": "flag_alias | playbook_candidate", "summary": "...", "sightings": 3, "last_seen": "...", "rationale": "...", "next_action": ["", "myanimelist-pp-cli learnings confirm 12"] } ], "playbook": { "query_family": "...", "playbook": { "steps": [ { "cmd": "", "purpose": "..." } ], "entity_slots": ["$ENTITY"], "expected_tool_calls": 3 }, "slots_resolved": { "$ENTITY": { "token": "", "canonical": "" } }, "notes": "" }, "notes": "" } ``` Empty-store short-circuit: if the store has no learnings, playbooks, or candidates yet (recall finds nothing and `learnings list` and `learnings candidates` are both empty), skip recall for the rest of this session instead of taxing every query; resume recall-first once something has been taught. ### Step 2: decision tree Read `