# AGENTS.md - Hacker News CLI

You are being asked to install or use the Hacker News CLI from the Printing Press library.

## What it is

hackernews-pp-cli is an agent-native command line tool for Hacker News. Hacker News from your terminal — with a local SQLite store, snapshot history, and agent-native output no other HN tool has.
It is a single Go binary that ships with an agent skill, and it installs with one command.

## Install

Recommended (installs the binary and the agent skill):

    npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install hackernews

Hermes:

    hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-hackernews --force

OpenClaw:

    clawhub install printing-press-library/hackernews

## MCP server

This CLI ships an MCP server (hackernews-pp-mcp) with 10 tools. Point any MCP client at it, including Claude Desktop.

## After install

Call hackernews-pp-cli from the shell, or use the /pp-hackernews skill inside an agent.
Run hackernews-pp-cli --help to list commands.

## Links

- Documentation: https://printingpress.dev/documentation/hackernews
- Library page: https://printingpress.dev/library/media-and-entertainment/hackernews
- This file: https://printingpress.dev/documentation/hackernews/agents.md