pp-movie-goat

Movie Goat — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the movie-goat-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:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install movie-goat --cli-only
2. Verify: movie-goat-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):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/movie-goat/cmd/movie-goat-pp-cli@latest

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 Movie Goat when an agent needs to answer cinephile questions that require combining streaming availability with multi-source ratings. It is the right choice for tonight-picker scenarios, franchise marathon planning, and rated career timelines. It is not the right choice for box-office tracking, review sentiment analysis, or any workflow that needs LLM-style summaries of plot or reviews.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Cinephile rituals

• tonight — Pick what to watch tonight from trending titles actually streaming on your services.

  Use this when an agent needs a streaming-filtered shortlist; one call replaces tab-bouncing across TMDb/RT/JustWatch.

  movie-goat-pp-cli tonight --mood thriller --max-runtime 120 --providers netflix,max --region US --json

• ratings — TMDb + IMDb + Rotten Tomatoes + Metacritic ratings for any title in one card.

  Use when an agent needs the canonical multi-source rating for a title; degrades gracefully to TMDb-only if OMDB_API_KEY is unset.

  movie-goat-pp-cli ratings 550 --json

• Remake-aware title resolution — Every command that accepts a title instead of a TMDb id says so out loud when the title is shared.

  TMDb's search ranks by a proprietary relevance score, so "Sabrina" resolves to the 1995 remake even though the 1954 Wilder original is better rated. When a title has more than one well-rated match, the CLI reports it on both channels: a human notice on stderr, and a meta.ambiguous record in the JSON on stdout for consumers that never read stderr. Pin the one you meant with --year, a "Title (YYYY)" suffix, or the id.

  movie-goat-pp-cli ratings "Sabrina" --year 1954 --json

• marathon — Plan a franchise marathon with watch order, total runtime, and suggested breaks.

  Use when planning an event watch; agent can dump the schedule to share with a group.

  movie-goat-pp-cli marathon "The Avengers" --order release --breaks-every 240 --json

• career — Explore any actor or director's full filmography with ratings and chronology.

  Use when an agent needs a rated chronological filmography; replaces flat IMDb lists with cross-source ratings.

  movie-goat-pp-cli career "Christopher Nolan" --since 2010 --role director --json

• versus — Compare two movies or shows side-by-side across ratings, cast, runtime, and streaming.

  Use when an agent has to pick between two finalists; one command shows where they differ on every axis.

  movie-goat-pp-cli versus 550 27205 --region US --json

• collaborators — List people who appear in 2+ of a person's credits, with count and titles.

  Use when an agent is researching a filmmaker's circle; surfaces recurring DPs/composers/actors mechanically.

  movie-goat-pp-cli collaborators "Christopher Nolan" --min-count 3 --role crew --json

Local state that compounds

• watchlist list — Local SQLite watchlist; flag rows that are streamable on your services.

  Use weekly to surface streamable items from a saved list; eliminates ad-hoc JustWatch checks per title.

  movie-goat-pp-cli watchlist list --available --providers netflix,max --region US --json

• queue — Suggest next-watch picks derived from your watchlist's recommendations and similars.

  Use when an agent needs a fresh queue derived from saved interests; combines local state with API recommendations.

  movie-goat-pp-cli queue --limit 20 --providers netflix,max --region US --json

Command Reference

auth — Manage TMDB_API_KEY and OMDB_API_KEY credentials

• movie-goat-pp-cli auth status — Show authentication status for both the TMDb and OMDb credentials
• movie-goat-pp-cli auth set-token — Save the TMDb API token to the config file
• movie-goat-pp-cli auth set-omdb-token — Save the optional OMDb API token to the config file
• movie-goat-pp-cli auth logout — Clear stored credentials

discover — Discover movies and TV shows with rich filters

• movie-goat-pp-cli discover movies — Discover movies by genre, year, rating, certification, cast, crew, streaming provider, and more
• movie-goat-pp-cli discover tv — Discover TV shows by genre, year, rating, network, and streaming provider

genres — Get genre lists for movies and TV

• movie-goat-pp-cli genres movies — Get the list of movie genres
• movie-goat-pp-cli genres tv — Get the list of TV genres

movies — Search and browse movies

• movie-goat-pp-cli movies get — Get detailed info about a movie including cast, ratings, and streaming availability
• movie-goat-pp-cli movies now-playing — Get movies currently in theaters
• movie-goat-pp-cli movies popular — Get current popular movies
• movie-goat-pp-cli movies search — Search for movies by title
• movie-goat-pp-cli movies top-rated — Get the highest rated movies
• movie-goat-pp-cli movies upcoming — Get movies coming soon to theaters

multi — Multi-search across movies, TV shows, and people

• movie-goat-pp-cli multi <query> — Search for movies, TV shows, and people in a single query

people — Search and browse people (actors, directors, crew)

• movie-goat-pp-cli people get — Get detailed info about a person including their filmography
• movie-goat-pp-cli people popular — Get popular people in entertainment
• movie-goat-pp-cli people search — Search for people by name

trending — Get trending movies, TV shows, and people

• movie-goat-pp-cli trending all — Get trending movies, TV, and people
• movie-goat-pp-cli trending movies — Get trending movies
• movie-goat-pp-cli trending people — Get trending people
• movie-goat-pp-cli trending tv — Get trending TV shows

tv — Search and browse TV shows

• movie-goat-pp-cli tv airing-today — Get TV shows with episodes airing today
• movie-goat-pp-cli tv get — Get detailed info about a TV show
• movie-goat-pp-cli tv on-the-air — Get TV shows currently on the air
• movie-goat-pp-cli tv popular — Get current popular TV shows
• movie-goat-pp-cli tv search — Search for TV shows by title
• movie-goat-pp-cli tv top-rated — Get the highest rated TV shows

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

movie-goat-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Tonight, well-rated, on my services

movie-goat-pp-cli tonight --mood drama --max-runtime 130 --providers netflix,max,prime --region US --agent --select "results.title,results.year,results.rating,results.providers"

Streaming-filtered shortlist with only the high-gravity fields an agent needs to decide.

Watchlist sweep

movie-goat-pp-cli watchlist list --available --providers netflix,max --region US --agent

Weekly check: which saved titles became streamable on services I have.

Rated career deep dive

movie-goat-pp-cli career "Lynne Ramsay" --role director --agent --select "credits.title,credits.year,credits.rating_imdb,credits.rating_rt"

Agent-bounded chronological filmography with the cross-source rating columns that matter.

Pick between two finalists

movie-goat-pp-cli versus 27205 87108 --region US --agent

Aligned compare card for Inception vs. Tenet; ratings, runtime, cast overlap, providers.

Store both API keys without touching the shell environment

movie-goat-pp-cli auth set-token YOUR_TMDB_API_KEY
movie-goat-pp-cli auth set-omdb-token YOUR_OMDB_API_KEY
movie-goat-pp-cli auth status --agent

Writes both credentials to ~/.config/movie-goat-pp-cli/config.toml (mode 0600) so every agent and shell on the machine sees them, not just the one that exported an environment variable. auth status reports authenticated, omdb_configured, and omdb_source so an agent can tell whether the IMDb / RT / Metacritic columns will be populated before it runs ratings.

Pin the original, not the remake

movie-goat-pp-cli ratings "Sabrina" --year 1954 --agent
movie-goat-pp-cli ratings "Sabrina (1954)" --agent
movie-goat-pp-cli versus "Sabrina (1954)" "Sabrina (1995)" --agent

ratings, marathon, and watchlist add take --year; every title-taking command (including the two-positional versus) accepts the inline "Title (YYYY)" suffix. Without either, the CLI still takes TMDb's top-ranked result but prints the rival ids on stderr:

warn: "Sabrina" matches 3 titles on TMDb; using id 11860 — Sabrina (1995).
      TMDb's search relevance put it first, but Sabrina (1954) has more ratings (1373 vs 703).
      Other matches:
        6620  Sabrina (1954)
        503902  Sabrina (2018)
      Disambiguate with --year <YYYY>, a "title (YYYY)" suffix, or the TMDb id.

/search/* orders results by a relevance score TMDb does not expose. It is not the vote count and not the popularity field — in this very case the 1954 entry leads on both (1373 vs 703 ratings, 4.25 vs 3.60 popularity) and still comes back second. That is why the top result can differ from the canonical edition, and why the notice compares vote counts: they are the only ranking input you can read.

Unrated same-title obscurities never trigger it, so ratings "Inception" stays silent.

A script that never reads stderr still finds out. The same event is recorded in the JSON response under meta.ambiguous, so a cron job or a pipeline running with 2>/dev/null — the case where nobody is watching and a wrong year is most dangerous — can detect it:

movie-goat-pp-cli ratings "Sabrina" --agent 2>/dev/null | jq '.meta.ambiguous'

[
  {
    "query": "Sabrina",
    "kind": "titles",
    "match_count": 3,
    "signal": "alternative_better_rated",
    "chosen":  { "tmdb_id": 11860, "title": "Sabrina", "year": "1995", "vote_count": 703 },
    "alternatives": [
      { "tmdb_id": 6620,   "title": "Sabrina", "year": "1954", "vote_count": 1373 },
      { "tmdb_id": 503902, "title": "Sabrina", "year": "2018", "vote_count": 194 }
    ],
    "hint": "Disambiguate with --year <YYYY>, a \"title (YYYY)\" suffix, or the TMDb id."
  }
]

signal is alternative_better_rated when the entry TMDb's search ranked first is not the best-rated one — treat that as "stop and pin an id" — or multiple_exact_matches when the top pick is also the best-rated. meta.ambiguous is a list because one command can resolve several titles (versus resolves two).

popularity is TMDb's trending score, passed through as reported. It is not the order the results came back in, and it is not what the signal compares — that is vote_count.

Rules worth knowing:

• Additive. The field appears only when the stderr notice fires. Unambiguous lookups carry no meta key at all, so nothing changes for existing parsers.
• --select cannot filter it out. --select title,ratings still returns meta.ambiguous when a lookup was ambiguous — narrowing the field list is exactly the habit that would otherwise hide it.
• --compact / --agent keep it. The compact allow-list applies to arrays; these responses are objects, whose compaction is a blocklist that leaves meta alone.
• --quiet silences the stderr notice but not the record. They are separate channels with separate audiences. Note that on these commands --quiet suppresses stdout entirely (pre-existing behavior), so use --json without --quiet to read the field.

Plan a franchise night

movie-goat-pp-cli marathon "Mission: Impossible" --order release --breaks-every 240 --agent

Ordered watchlist with total runtime and break suggestions.

Auth Setup

Movie Goat uses two API keys, and each can live in the config file or the environment.

Both keys are stored in ~/.config/movie-goat-pp-cli/config.toml (mode 0600) as api_key and omdb_api_key. The environment variable wins over the saved value for either key, so an existing environment-based setup keeps working unchanged.

The TMDb key is sent as a query parameter, not a Bearer header. Without an OMDb key, ratings, versus, and career show TMDb-only and gracefully omit the IMDb / RT / Metacritic columns.

movie-goat-pp-cli auth status reports both credentials and where each resolved from; movie-goat-pp-cli auth logout clears both from the config file.

Run movie-goat-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  movie-goat-pp-cli movies get mock-value --agent --select id,name,status

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

movie-goat-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
movie-goat-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
movie-goat-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.movie-goat-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless MOVIE_GOAT_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or MOVIE_GOAT_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

movie-goat-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
movie-goat-pp-cli --profile briefing movies get mock-value
movie-goat-pp-cli profile list --json
movie-goat-pp-cli profile show briefing
movie-goat-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

1. Empty, help, or --help → show movie-goat-pp-cli --help output
2. Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

1. Install the MCP server:

   go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/movie-goat/cmd/movie-goat-pp-mcp@latest
2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add -e TMDB_API_KEY=<your-tmdb-key> -e OMDB_API_KEY=<your-omdb-key> movie-goat-pp-mcp -- movie-goat-pp-mcp
   OMDB_API_KEY is optional, but it enables IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic enrichment in ratings, versus, and career.
3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which movie-goat-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
3. Execute with the --agent flag:

   movie-goat-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: movie-goat-pp-cli <command> --help.