Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-walkingpad
The standalone CLI for WalkingPad treadmills — drive the belt over Bluetooth LE and keep a permanent local history of every walk the belt forgets on power-cut. Trigger phrases: `start my walkingpad`, `how far have I walked today`, `what's my walking streak`, `walking trends this week`, `estimate my walking calories`, `log my walk to Apple Health`, `run the treadmill at 2 km/h`, `use walkingpad`, `run walkingpad`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable commands for controlling WalkingPad treadmills and managing local walk history that aren't available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires walkingpad-pp-cli installed locally. About 6k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
WalkingPad — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the walkingpad-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: walkingpad-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 Reach for this CLI whenever an agent or script needs to inspect a WalkingPad's recorded walk history, compute streaks/trends/calories, or drive a physical belt from a laptop instead of the phone app. It is ideal for "how far did I walk today / this week", consecutive-day streak tracking, calorie estimates the belt won't report, exporting walks to Apple Health, and — on a live build — starting, holding, and stopping the belt over a reliable held BLE connection. The MCP surface mirrors the read and history/analytics commands so an agent can answer walking questions without the phone app. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this device. Local history & analytics The belt loses its run memory on power-cut. This CLI persists every recorded walk locally so the long view survives. today — Today's recorded totals: distance, steps, active minutes, session count. streak — Current consecutive-day walking streak. trends — Per-day distance, steps, and active minutes over a window (including zero-activity days). calories — Estimate calories burned from your body weight (the belt never reports them). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/walkingpad