Pp Jobber

Jobber — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the jobber-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 jobber --cli-only
   

2. Verify: jobber-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/sales-and-crm/jobber/cmd/jobber-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 jobber-pp-cli when an agent or user needs offline analysis of a Jobber tenant: AR aging, invoice payment tracing, week-over-week snapshot diffs, full-text search across synced data, or ad-hoc SQL over the local store. It is read-only by design — pair it with QBO or another accounting CLI for full reconciliation. It does not write to Jobber.

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.

Accounting & AR analysis

• ar aging — Aged AR by client with 0-30/31-60/61-90/90+ buckets and per-bucket totals — answers the question every advisor and bookkeeper asks first, offline and instantly.

  Reach for this whenever the user asks about overdue invoices, collections risk, or DSO. It's the offline-first, agent-shaped equivalent of opening the Jobber AR report and re-pivoting in Excel.

  jobber-pp-cli ar aging --as-of 2026-05-15 --json --select client,bucket_0_30,bucket_31_60,bucket_61_90,bucket_over_90
  

• invoices trace — Per-invoice ledger: total billed, sum of payment records, balance, allocated payout reference, status drift. --mismatched filters to invoices where payments don't equal total.

  Use when the user asks 'why is this invoice still open' or wants to find misposted payments. One row per invoice covers everything the Jobber UI buries three clicks deep.

  jobber-pp-cli invoices trace --mismatched --json
  

Diligence & diff

• snapshot diff — Diff two labeled SQLite snapshots: new clients, status transitions, paid invoices, open-AR deltas per client. --save <label> tags the current DB for a later diff.

  Reach for this on a weekly cadence to write client memos, identify deltas, or build an audit log of changes between two points in time.

  jobber-pp-cli snapshot diff 2026-05-15 2026-05-22 --json
  

Command Reference

clients — Clients (Jobber clients Relay connection)

• jobber-pp-cli clients get — Get a client by EncodedId
• jobber-pp-cli clients list — List clients with optional filters

invoices — Invoices (Jobber invoices Relay connection)

• jobber-pp-cli invoices — List invoices with optional filters

jobber_jobs — Jobs (Jobber jobs Relay connection). Resource key is jobber_jobs to avoid press v4.9.0 reserved-cobra collision; post-rewrite renames Cobra Use back to jobs and removes the unused built-in jobs ledger.

• jobber-pp-cli jobber_jobs get — Get a job by EncodedId
• jobber-pp-cli jobber_jobs list — List jobs with optional filters

payment-records — Payment records (Jobber paymentRecords Relay connection, PaymentRecordInterface)

• jobber-pp-cli payment-records — List payment records with optional filters (entryDate is exclusive both ends - pad +/-1 day)

properties — Properties (Jobber properties Relay connection)

• jobber-pp-cli properties — List properties with optional filters

quotes — Quotes (Jobber quotes Relay connection)

• jobber-pp-cli quotes — List quotes with optional filters

visits — Visits (Jobber visits Relay connection)

• jobber-pp-cli visits — List visits with optional filters

Finding the right command

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

jobber-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

Build a weekly AR delta memo

jobber-pp-cli snapshot save 2026-05-22
jobber-pp-cli snapshot diff 2026-05-15 2026-05-22 --json

Saves a labeled DB snapshot, then diffs it against last week to surface new clients, status transitions, newly paid invoices, and per-client open-AR deltas — exactly the changes that belong in a weekly client memo.

Find invoices where payments don't match the total

jobber-pp-cli invoices trace --mismatched --json

Per-invoice ledger comparing total, payments_total, deposit_amount, and the sum of underlying payment records. Flags any drift > $0.005 — the misposted-payment finder.

Ad-hoc SQL against the local store

jobber-pp-cli sql "SELECT invoice_number, total, payments_total FROM invoices WHERE invoice_status='awaiting_payment' ORDER BY total DESC LIMIT 25" --json

Read-only ad-hoc SQL (write tokens rejected at the CLI layer + sqlite mode=ro) for anything the curated commands don't already answer.

Full-text search across synced data

jobber-pp-cli search "kitchen renovation" --json --limit 20

FTS5 search across every synced resource — clients, jobs, invoices, properties, quotes, visits, payment records — without hitting the live API.

Auth Setup

Jobber uses OAuth2 authorization code flow with mandatory refresh-token rotation. jobber-pp-cli reads JOBBER_CLIENT_ID, JOBBER_CLIENT_SECRET, JOBBER_CALLBACK_URL, JOBBER_ACCESS_TOKEN, JOBBER_REFRESH_TOKEN, and JOBBER_GRAPHQL_VERSION from the environment. Every refresh persists the newest refresh token back to the Windows user environment (required by Jobber's rotation policy). Run jobber-pp-cli doctor to verify the connection.

Run jobber-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:

  jobber-pp-cli clients list --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 AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.jobber-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless JOBBER_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or JOBBER_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.

jobber-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
jobber-pp-cli --profile briefing clients list
jobber-pp-cli profile list --json
jobber-pp-cli profile show briefing
jobber-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 jobber-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

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

claude mcp add jobber-pp-mcp -- jobber-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which jobber-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:

   jobber-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: jobber-pp-cli <command> --help.