Agent skill · marketing growth · mvanhorn
pp-slickdeals
Slickdeals live RSS surface (hot deals, frontpage, search, category, coupons) plus local-snapshot transcendence (watch/digest/deals/analytics) — agent-native, MCP-compatible, SQLite-backed. Trigger phrases: `slickdeals frontpage`, `slickdeals hot deals`, `slickdeals missed deals`, `slickdeals coupons`, `slickdeals category`, `use slickdeals-pp-cli`, `run slickdeals`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a CLI with executable commands for accessing and analyzing Slickdeals data, enabling new capabilities for deal tracking and analytics.
What it needs
Requires slickdeals-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Slickdeals — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the slickdeals-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: slickdeals-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. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when you need agent-native access to Slickdeals data — hot deals, frontpage feed, coupons, category browsing, and local deal-tracking over time. The v0.2 release expands beyond v0.1's Nuxt endpoint wrapping: it adds an RSS surface for live frontpage data and a local SQLite snapshot store so agents can track deal velocity, run compound queries, and generate merchant analytics entirely offline. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. hot — Top live frontpage deals filtered by min-thumbs, sorted thumbs DESC. frontpage-fresh — Live unfiltered frontpage RSS feed (today's drops). popular — Slickdeals "Popular Deals" feed (community-voted, distinct from editor-curated frontpage). New in v0.3 search --live — Real server-side keyword search via the q= parameter, optionally scoped with --forum N. Fixed in v0.3 — v0.2 used the wrong parameter name and silently fell back to client-side filtering. category — Forum-scoped RSS feed via forumchoice[]=N. Five Slickdeals-advertised forum IDs: 4 (Freebies), 9 (Hot Deals), 10 (Coupons), 25 (Contests), 38 (Drugstore/Grocery). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/slickdeals