Agent skill · writing content · mvanhorn
pp-podcastindex
The only PodcastIndex tool that is agent-native and works offline: search, resolve Trigger phrases: `search podcasts for`, `find episodes with`, `resolve this show to its episodes`, `what podcasts mention`, `podcast cadence for`, `use podcastindex`, `run podcastindex`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds unique command capabilities like full-text search within transcripts and offline functionality for podcast metadata analysis.
What it needs
Requires podcastindex-pp-cli installed locally. About 9k 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/media-and-entertainment/podcastindex/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/". --> PodcastIndex — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the podcastindex-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: podcastindex-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. Every existing PodcastIndex tool is a language SDK that mirrors the endpoints and returns raw JSON in-process. This CLI adds a local SQLite mirror, full-text search over synced shows and episodes, agent-native output, and compound commands no wrapper has: tgrep searches inside transcripts, cadence and dead-watch reason over publish history, guest-graph joins people across feeds. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent or user needs to discover podcasts, resolve a show to its episodes, or analyse podcast metadata, publish cadence, guests, value4value splits, or transcript content from the PodcastIndex database. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-podcastindex