Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-shelters
Printing Press CLI for Shelters. Credible, real-time disaster shelter information for AI agents and people
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands and functionality for accessing real-time disaster shelter information that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires shelters-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
Shelters — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the shelters-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: shelters-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. Gives agents and people the most comprehensive, credible open-shelter picture available: it unions FEMA's National Shelter System (NSS) OpenShelters feed with the American Red Cross Emergency-Action feed (the redcross.org map's source) and dedupes them, because FEMA is synchronized downstream of Red Cross and lags it by up to a day, so neither feed alone is complete. Coverage is the United States and its territories only (both FEMA NSS and the American Red Cross are US feeds), not other countries. FEMA rows are best-effort enriched with the richer FEMANSS layer (county/parish, the driving incident, the open date, generator and floodplain/surge attributes), and the CLI folds in live occupancy (current population, the general/medical/other/pet breakdown, capacity, and the driving incident) from the American Red Cross OpenShelters layer, the one feed that reports a real headcount. Every shelter carries a source field recording which feeds it came from ('fema', 'redcross', or 'fema+redcross', with '+occupancy' appended once live population is merged in). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-shelters--1b35ec