Pp Placeit

Placeit — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the placeit-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 placeit --cli-only
   

2. Verify: placeit-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). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/marketing/placeit/cmd/placeit-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.

Placeit has no public API, no bulk search, and no offline catalog. This CLI mirrors the entire Algolia-indexed catalog into a local SQLite database, then layers on commands no Placeit tool has: rank results by actual purchase count (top), filter Printify-ready mockups for a POD pipeline (pod), assemble matched Twitch kits (kit), and cross-tabulate the catalog's tag facets (gaps). Search and browse need no login; account and saved-templates use your Placeit session.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI to search, filter, and analyze Placeit's template catalog programmatically: finding the best-selling or Printify-ready mockups for a product line, assembling matched streamer kits, or auditing catalog coverage across tag facets. It is ideal for print-on-demand sellers, streamers, and social-media managers who batch-produce assets and want scriptable, offline-cacheable catalog access.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI to actually render or download a finished design — Placeit's render/download is a browser-only flow; use 'open' to launch the template in your browser instead.
• Do not use this CLI to edit a template's text, colors, or uploaded artwork — there is no headless editor.
• Do not use this CLI to manage billing or change a Placeit subscription.

Unique Capabilities

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

Popularity intelligence

• top — Rank matching templates by real purchase count, not opaque relevance.

  Reach for this when a seller needs the mockups that actually convert, not just the first search hits.

  placeit-pp-cli top "t-shirt" --category mockups --agent
  

• rank — Show a template's purchase percentile within its category and tag cohort.

  Reach for this to judge whether a specific template is a strong pick before committing to it.

  placeit-pp-cli rank 41935 --agent
  

Print-on-demand

• pod — Return only Printify-compatible mockups for a query with deep links for a listing pipeline.

  Reach for this when batching POD listings so you never open a mockup that isn't print-ready.

  placeit-pp-cli pod "hoodie" --agent --select stage_link,editor_link
  

Matched sets

• kit — Assemble a coherent streamer kit (overlay, panels, emotes, frame) and flag missing slots.

  Reach for this when a streamer rebrand needs a visually consistent set, not mismatched single assets.

  placeit-pp-cli kit "neon gaming" --agent
  

Taxonomy navigation

• industry-map — Map the 152-entry industry taxonomy with template counts from your synced mirror.

  Reach for this to size a niche and find the industries with the most ready-made templates.

  placeit-pp-cli industry-map "coffee shop"
  

Monitoring

• watch — Persist named searches and report templates newly matching since the last sync.

  Reach for this to keep a client niche fresh without re-running searches by hand every week.

  placeit-pp-cli watch run --agent
  

Catalog analytics

• gaps — Pivot the catalog across two tag facets to surface under-served template combinations.

  Reach for this to spot mockup coverage gaps (e.g. a device with thin on-model diversity).

  placeit-pp-cli gaps --facet device_tags --by ethnicity_tags
  

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Command Reference

account — Your Placeit account and subscription status (requires a logged-in session)

• placeit-pp-cli account — Show the signed-in user's account type and subscription status

bookmarks — Templates you've saved/bookmarked on Placeit (requires a logged-in session)

• placeit-pp-cli bookmarks — List the signed-in user's bookmarked templates

campaigns — Active Placeit marketing campaigns and promotions (no login required)

• placeit-pp-cli campaigns — List active Placeit campaigns and promotions

Finding the right command

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

placeit-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

Find the best-selling Printify t-shirt mockups

placeit-pp-cli pod "t-shirt" --agent --select name,stage_link,purchases

Filters to Printify-ready mockups and narrows the JSON to just the fields a listing pipeline needs.

Rank cached logos by popularity in a niche

placeit-pp-cli top "coffee shop logo" --category logos --limit 20 --agent

Orders local-mirror matches by real purchase count for agent consumption.

Audit on-model mockup diversity

placeit-pp-cli gaps --facet device_tags --by ethnicity_tags

Cross-tabulates two tag facets to reveal under-served mockup combinations.

Narrow a deeply nested template record for an agent

placeit-pp-cli template 41935 --agent --select name,category_name,stage_link,large_thumb,device_tags

Template records carry 40+ fields and 9 tag arrays; --select keeps only what the agent needs.

Watch a client niche for new templates

placeit-pp-cli watch add "halloween instagram" && placeit-pp-cli watch run --agent

Saves a named search, then reports templates newly published since the last sync.

Auth Setup

Search, browse, sync, and template lookup use Placeit's public Algolia catalog and need no credentials. The account and bookmarks commands read your Placeit (Envato) session, which you import once from Chrome via the auth login step shown in Quick Start. Because Placeit sits behind Cloudflare, the CLI ships a browser-compatible HTTP transport for those calls.

Run placeit-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:

  placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --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:

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.local/share/placeit-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless PLACEIT_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or PLACEIT_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.

placeit-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
placeit-pp-cli --profile briefing bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
placeit-pp-cli profile list --json
placeit-pp-cli profile show briefing
placeit-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 placeit-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/marketing/placeit/cmd/placeit-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add placeit-pp-mcp -- placeit-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which placeit-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:

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

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