Pp Pangolin

Pangolin — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the pangolin-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:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install pangolin --cli-only
   

2. Verify: pangolin-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH.

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/developer-tools/pangolin/cmd/pangolin-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Pangolin is the open-source, self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels. This CLI exposes all 157 integration-API endpoints with --json, --select, --csv, and --dry-run, mirrors the full configuration into a local SQLite store, and adds commands that span orgs — audit, cert-watch, access-graph, backup, restore, expose — that no Pangolin tool offers today.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for this CLI whenever the user mentions Pangolin, exposing a homelab service through a tunnel, managing reverse-proxy resources, or auditing who can reach what on a self-hosted edge proxy. The CLI is the right tool for any Pangolin workflow that involves more than a single resource or a single org, or anything an agent should drive programmatically.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

• audit — Find stale targets, orphaned resources, and missing role bindings across every org you administer, in one command.

  When the user asks 'is anything broken in my Pangolin stack?', this is the single command that answers it — no dashboard tab-clicking.

  pangolin-pp-cli audit --json --select issues
  

• cert-watch — List certificates sorted by days-until-expiry across every org, with a configurable warning window.

  When the user asks 'what certs expire soon?', skip the dashboard and get an actionable list with one call.

  pangolin-pp-cli cert-watch --days 30 --json
  

• access-graph — Answer 'who can reach what' by joining users, roles, resources, and orgs into one queryable view.

  When the user asks 'what does $person have access to?' or 'who can hit this resource?', this is the answer.

  pangolin-pp-cli access-graph --user $USER_ID --json
  

Disaster recovery

• backup — Export the complete Pangolin configuration — orgs, sites, resources, targets, roles, IdPs — as version-controllable JSON.

  When the user wants a disaster-recovery snapshot or a config diff between dates, this is the artifact.

  pangolin-pp-cli backup --out pangolin-backup.json
  

• restore — Re-apply a backup against a fresh Pangolin install, in the correct dependency order, with dry-run preview.

  When the user rebuilds a Pangolin host or moves between machines, this is the way back up.

  pangolin-pp-cli restore pangolin-backup.json --dry-run
  

Agent-native plumbing

• expose — Create site (if needed), create resource, attach target, bind a role — in one command, with dry-run preview.

  When the user (or an agent) wants to expose a homelab service, this is the entire workflow in one line.

  pangolin-pp-cli expose grafana --target 192.168.1.50:3000 --site site_42 --role admins --dry-run
  

• doctor — Validate auth, probe both /v1 and /api/v1 mount paths, and report the working integration-API base URL with environment-variable guidance.

  When the user sets up the CLI for the first time, this catches the single most common misconfiguration before any other command fails.

  pangolin-pp-cli doctor
  

Command Reference

access-token — Manage access token

• pangolin-pp-cli access-token <accessTokenId> — Delete a access token.

certificate — Manage certificate

• pangolin-pp-cli certificate <certId> <orgId> — Restart a certificate by ID.

client — Manage client

• pangolin-pp-cli client create — Update a client by its client ID.
• pangolin-pp-cli client delete — Delete a client by its client ID.
• pangolin-pp-cli client get — Get a client by its client ID.

domain — Manage domain

• pangolin-pp-cli domain — Check if a domain namespace is available based on subdomain

domains — Manage domains

• pangolin-pp-cli domains — List all domain namespaces in the system

idp — Manage idp

• pangolin-pp-cli idp delete — Delete IDP.
• pangolin-pp-cli idp get — Get an IDP by its IDP ID.
• pangolin-pp-cli idp list — List all IDP in the system.
• pangolin-pp-cli idp update — Create an OIDC IdP.

maintenance — Manage maintenance

• pangolin-pp-cli maintenance — Get maintenance information for a resource by domain.

openapi-json — Manage openapi json

• pangolin-pp-cli openapi-json — Get OpenAPI specification as JSON

openapi-yaml — Manage openapi yaml

• pangolin-pp-cli openapi-yaml — Get OpenAPI specification as YAML

org — Manage org

• pangolin-pp-cli org create — Update an organization
• pangolin-pp-cli org delete — Delete an organization
• pangolin-pp-cli org get — Get an organization
• pangolin-pp-cli org update — Create a new organization

orgs — Manage orgs

• pangolin-pp-cli orgs — List all organizations in the system.

resource — Manage resource

• pangolin-pp-cli resource create — Update a resource.
• pangolin-pp-cli resource delete — Delete a resource.
• pangolin-pp-cli resource get — Get a resource by resourceId.

role — Manage role

• pangolin-pp-cli role create — Update a role.
• pangolin-pp-cli role delete — Delete a role.
• pangolin-pp-cli role get — Get a role.

site — Manage site

• pangolin-pp-cli site create — Update a site.
• pangolin-pp-cli site delete — Delete a site and all its associated data.
• pangolin-pp-cli site get — Get a site by siteId.

site-resource — Manage site resource

• pangolin-pp-cli site-resource create — Update a site resource.
• pangolin-pp-cli site-resource delete — Delete a site resource.
• pangolin-pp-cli site-resource get — Get a specific site resource by siteResourceId.

target — Manage target

• pangolin-pp-cli target create — Update a target.
• pangolin-pp-cli target delete — Delete a target.
• pangolin-pp-cli target get — Get a target.

user — Manage user

• pangolin-pp-cli user <userId> — Get a user by ID.

users — Manage users

• pangolin-pp-cli users — List non–server-admin users (server admin).

Finding the right command

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

pangolin-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

Expose a homelab service in one command

pangolin-pp-cli expose grafana --target 192.168.1.50:3000 --role admins --dry-run

Previews the full create-site-resource-target-role chain; drop --dry-run to apply.

Find expiring certs across every org

pangolin-pp-cli cert-watch --days 30 --json --select domain,daysUntilExpiry

Returns a compact JSON array of certs expiring within 30 days. Pair with --select to shrink the agent's context cost.

Audit access for a specific user

pangolin-pp-cli access-graph --user $USER_ID --json --select resource,org,role

Joins users x roles x resources x orgs into a single answer for 'what can this person reach?'.

Disaster-recovery backup

pangolin-pp-cli backup --out backups/pangolin-$(date +%F).json

Snapshots the entire Pangolin configuration as JSON; commit to git for diffable history.

Search resources by partial name

pangolin-pp-cli search 'grafana' --json --select id,name,fullDomain

FTS over the local store finds resources without paginating the live API.

Auth Setup

Authentication is a single Bearer integration token. Set PANGOLIN_TOKEN in your environment; the base URL is typically https:///api/v1 (note: the OpenAPI spec advertises /v1 but real EE deployments mount the API under /api/v1). Set PANGOLIN_BASE_URL accordingly and run pangolin-pp-cli doctor to confirm.

Run pangolin-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:

  pangolin-pp-cli client 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

• Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success, and --ignore-missing only when a missing delete target should count as success

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:

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

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

pangolin-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
pangolin-pp-cli --profile briefing client get mock-value
pangolin-pp-cli profile list --json
pangolin-pp-cli profile show briefing
pangolin-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 pangolin-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/developer-tools/pangolin/cmd/pangolin-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add pangolin-pp-mcp -- pangolin-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which pangolin-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:

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

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