Pp Vagaro

Vagaro — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the vagaro-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 vagaro --cli-only
   

2. Verify: vagaro-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/health/vagaro/cmd/vagaro-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.

Vagaro's website is a per-business click-through funnel with no way to ask a question across the whole marketplace. This CLI syncs businesses, services, providers, reviews, and availability into a local SQLite store, so you can find any open slot matching your constraints (find), compare businesses head to head (compare), check whether a price is fair (price-check), and rebook your usual with the same provider (me rebook) — all with agent-native --json output.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when a user wants to discover salon/spa/barber/fitness businesses, compare them by price or rating, check availability across many businesses at once, or manage and rebook their own Vagaro appointments from the command line or an agent. It shines at cross-business questions the Vagaro website makes tedious.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI for Vagaro Pro / business-owner operations (POS, payroll, staff management) — that is a different, paid API.
• Do not use it to manage payment methods or edit your Vagaro profile — those are intentionally out of scope.
• Do not use it to complete a prepaid/deposit booking — payment happens on Vagaro's site, not here.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

• find — Find nearby businesses with a service open soonest, filtered by price, rating, and a date/time window.

  Reach for this when a user wants any open slot matching constraints across many businesses, not a specific known place.

  vagaro-pp-cli find massage --max-price 120 --min-rating 4.5 --from thu --to sat --agent
  

• compare — Compare named businesses side by side: rating, review count, price range, matching-service price, and next-available.

  Use when the user already has 2-3 businesses in mind and wants a decision table.

  vagaro-pp-cli compare centralbarber rudysbarbershop --agent
  

• price-check — Show the price spread (min/median/max) for a service across a metro and flag who's below median.

  Use to judge whether a quoted price is fair or to find below-median providers.

  vagaro-pp-cli price-check haircut --city seattle --agent
  

• market — One-shot landscape of a metro: business count, rating distribution, and price ranges by category.

  Use when someone is new to an area and wants the lay of the land before picking a regular spot.

  vagaro-pp-cli market seattle --agent
  

• menu-diff — Diff a business's service menu across synced snapshots to catch price changes and added/removed services.

  Use to detect silent price hikes or menu changes at a business you follow.

  vagaro-pp-cli menu-diff centralbarber --agent
  

Booking that remembers you

• me rebook — Re-run your usual: reads your past appointment (business + service + provider) and lists that provider's open slots in a date window so you can pick a future time.

  Use when the business/service/provider are already known from history, such as another haircut with the same barber. The variable is the future slot, not provider discovery.

  vagaro-pp-cli me rebook --last --from thu --to sat --agent
  

• watch — Check one business/provider's next-available against a stored baseline and report if a slot opened up sooner.

  Use when waiting on a booked-out provider to open a sooner slot.

  vagaro-pp-cli watch centralbarber --service haircut --before 2026-07-05 --agent
  

• business availability — Query one known business for available slots, scoped to a service, provider, and date range.

  Use when the user already knows the business and needs a precise provider/service/window answer.

  vagaro-pp-cli business availability sample-shop --service haircut --provider alex --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-31 --agent
  

Command Reference

business — Look up a Vagaro business (salon/spa/barber/fitness) by its slug

• vagaro-pp-cli business availability — Get a business's next-available booking summary; supports --service <name-or-id>, --provider <name-or-id>, --from <date>, --to <date>, and --weeks <n>
• vagaro-pp-cli business get — Get a business profile (name, rating, address, categories)
• vagaro-pp-cli business services — List a business's services with prices and durations

classes — Browse upcoming livestream classes

• vagaro-pp-cli classes — List upcoming livestream classes

listings — Browse businesses by service and location (live JSON-LD listings)

• vagaro-pp-cli listings <service> <location> — List businesses for a service in a city (city--state slug)

me — Your own Vagaro account (requires auth login --chrome)

• vagaro-pp-cli me — List your appointments (upcoming or past)
• vagaro-pp-cli me rebook --last --from <date> --to <date> — Use your most recent past appointment's business/service/provider and list matching future openings

booking-link / book — Booking handoff only

• vagaro-pp-cli booking-link <slug> --service <id> --provider <id> --at <YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM> — Verify a selected slot and print the booking handoff details. This does not submit the appointment.
• book is an alias for booking-link; with --confirm it prints the tightest Vagaro booking URL plus exact browser steps for the verified slot, but still does not complete checkout for you.
• Use the business slug from the Vagaro URL, for example centralbarber from https://www.vagaro.com/centralbarber.

favorites — Saved-business discovery

• vagaro-pp-cli favorites — Tries to read saved/favorite businesses from the authenticated account. Use this when the user forgot which business they saved; do not use it for routine repeat appointments where me rebook can infer the business/service/provider from history.

Finding the right command

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

vagaro-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 an open massage this weekend under budget

vagaro-pp-cli find massage --max-price 120 --min-rating 4.5 --from sat --to sun --agent

Fans out across nearby businesses and ranks those with an open slot in the window under your price and rating floor.

Compare two barbers before committing

vagaro-pp-cli compare centralbarber rudysbarbershop --agent --select name,rating,priceRange,nextAvailable

Side-by-side decision table narrowed to the fields an agent needs, avoiding the verbose full payload.

Rebook your usual haircut with the same provider

vagaro-pp-cli me rebook --last --from thu --to sat --agent

Reads your most recent past appointment, keeps the same business/service/provider, and lists that provider's open times inside the requested window. For a recurring haircut, this is the default path: use history to keep "Central Barber + Ronnel + haircut" fixed, then choose the future slot.

If the most recent appointment is not the one you want to repeat, first list your appointment history and pass the desired appointment id:

vagaro-pp-cli me --past --agent --select appointment_id,business_name,service_name,provider_name,date
vagaro-pp-cli me rebook <appointment-id> --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-31 --agent

Turn a selected rebook slot into a booking handoff

After me rebook returns slots, choose one YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM value and verify it with booking-link / book before opening Vagaro:

vagaro-pp-cli booking-link centralbarber --service 34098477 --provider 43931725 --at 2026-07-24T10:00 --agent
vagaro-pp-cli booking-link centralbarber --service 34098477 --provider 43931725 --at 2026-07-24T10:00 --confirm --agent

booking-link verifies availability and prints what would be booked. book --confirm prints the tightest Vagaro URL plus the exact browser steps for the verified service/provider/time. Neither command submits the appointment or performs checkout; the final confirmation still happens on Vagaro's site.

When to use favorites instead of rebook

Use favorites when the question is "which businesses did I save?" or when there is no relevant past appointment. For a routine repeat appointment, such as another haircut with the same barber at the same shop, skip favorites and use me rebook: appointment history already carries the business, service, and provider, so the only real choice is the future slot.

Check if a haircut price is fair in your city

vagaro-pp-cli price-check haircut --city seattle --agent

Shows the metro price distribution and flags below-median providers.

Auth Setup

Public discovery (search, business detail, services, reviews, classes) needs no auth. For your own appointment history and profile, run 'vagaro-pp-cli auth login --chrome' to import your logged-in Vagaro session from Chrome (a JWT plus session cookies). Booking commands are handoff-only: booking-link / book verify a selected slot and can print the closest Vagaro booking URL plus browser steps, but they do not submit the appointment.

Run vagaro-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:

  vagaro-pp-cli business 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

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.

Paths and state

Agents should treat the CLI's path resolver as part of the runtime contract:

• Use --home <dir> for one invocation, or set VAGARO_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: VAGARO_CONFIG_DIR, VAGARO_DATA_DIR, VAGARO_STATE_DIR, VAGARO_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, VAGARO_HOME, XDG (XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME), then platform defaults.

• config contains settings like config.toml and profiles. data contains credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, and auth sidecars. state contains persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log. cache contains regenerable HTTP/cache files.

• Stored secrets live in credentials.toml under the data dir. Existing legacy config.toml secrets are read for compatibility and leave config.toml on the first auth write.

• Run vagaro-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to surface path and credential-location warnings. agent-context exposes a schema v4 paths block for agents that need the resolved dirs.

• For MCP, pass relocation through the MCP host config. The MCP binary does not inherit CLI flags:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "vagaro": {
        "command": "vagaro-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "VAGARO_HOME": "/srv/vagaro"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use VAGARO_HOME or per-kind vars as durable fleet levers, and use --home only for a single invocation. Relocation is not reversible by unsetting env vars; move files manually before clearing VAGARO_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally as feedback.jsonl under the resolved data dir. They are never POSTed unless VAGARO_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or VAGARO_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.

vagaro-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
vagaro-pp-cli --profile briefing business get mock-value
vagaro-pp-cli profile list --json
vagaro-pp-cli profile show briefing
vagaro-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 vagaro-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/health/vagaro/cmd/vagaro-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add vagaro-pp-mcp -- vagaro-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which vagaro-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:

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

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