/printing-press

Result: A working Go CLI in $PRESS_LIBRARY/<api-slug>/, plus up to five dense manuscripts archived to $PRESS_MANUSCRIPTS/<api-slug>/<run-id>/: research brief, absorb manifest, build log, shipcheck proof, and live smoke proof when live testing ran.

Next consumer: The user, who runs the CLI or ships it, and the sibling skills that take it from here: printing-press-polish for a second pass, printing-press-publish for the public library, printing-press-retro for findings against the Press itself.

Done: Every feature approved at the absorb gate is implemented, shipcheck reached ship, the live dogfood matrix ran against real targets, the CLI is promoted, and the receipt ledger closes on the last phase.

Intent: The best useful CLI for an API without an hour of phase theater. Optimize for time-to-ship, not time-to-document: reuse prior research when it is already good enough, run the cheap high-signal checks early, fix blockers before polish.

Boundaries

• Never leak a secret. API key values, token values, passwords, and session cookies must never reach source, manuscripts, proofs, READMEs, HARs, receipts, or anything committed. Env var names and placeholders are safe. Phase 5.6 and publish apply references/secret-protection.md.
• Never ship untested. go build and verify pass-rate are structural signals, not correctness signals. A CLI that has not been through the live matrix in phases/18-dogfood-testing.md is not shippable, and a bug a 1-3 file edit resolves is fixed now, not filed for v0.2.
• Never quote human-time estimates for sub-tasks ("~15-30 min", "quick fix"). The agent does the work, not the user; describe scope instead. The carve-outs are the genuinely time-bound: the whole run (30-60 minutes), tool installs, and the network-bound printing-press subcommands.
• Never sequence from memory. The receipt ledger decides which phase comes next; see references/phase-receipts.md.

Authority

Invocation authorizes reading and writing under $PRESS_RUNSTATE/, $PRESS_LIBRARY/, and $PRESS_MANUSCRIPTS/, running the printing-press binary and the Go toolchain, and researching the API on the open web. It does not authorize publishing to the public library, opening a pull request, or writing anywhere else on the user's machine.

Steps

Enter phases/01-preflight.md before any user-facing prompt, then read references/run-resolution.md: it resolves the API target, the briefing context, and the source priority for combo runs.

Never execute a phase from memory. When you enter a phase, Read its file from phases/ first.

Follow each file's final Next: pointer, and record the receipt handoff each phase names. Late procedure lives in the phase file or a role-named reference it loads (references/phase-receipts.md, references/codex-delegation.md, references/fetch-docs.md). Do not restate those files here.