pp-dreaming

Dreaming — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the dreaming-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

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 dreaming --cli-only
```
Verify: dreaming-pp-cli --version
Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails before this CLI has a public-library category, install Node or use the category-specific Go fallback after publish.

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.

Dreaming's web app shows your hours but won't plan, search, or bulk-import for you, and the community's features are scattered across a dozen browser extensions and scripts. This CLI unifies them into one agent-native tool backed by a local SQLite mirror of your catalog, daily series, and external-hours log - so next picks your next video offline, external import clears a CSV backlog in one shot, and roadmap lays out the whole L1-L7 fluency ladder with personalized ETAs.

When to Use This CLI

Use the Dreaming CLI for any task about a learner's comprehensible-input progress on Dreaming Spanish or French: checking hours and pace toward a fluency level, picking the next right-level video, searching the catalog by topic/guide/dialect, logging or bulk-importing external listening time, and analyzing whether consumed difficulty is trending up. It is the right tool whenever the question involves the hours-based roadmap or the leveled video catalog.

Unique Capabilities

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

Roadmap intelligence

next — Get the next unwatched videos tuned to where you are on the fluency roadmap, sorted by fine-grained difficulty.

Reach for this instead of scrolling the catalog when an agent needs the single right-level, not-yet-watched video to recommend.
```
dreaming next --limit 5 --agent
```
diet — See whether the difficulty of what you actually watch is trending up over a window - the real signal that you're ready to level up.

Use this to answer 'is this learner actually progressing, or stuck rewatching easy content?'
```
dreaming diet --window 90d --agent
```
roadmap — The whole L1-L7 ladder with comprehensible-input advisories (speaking, reading, native milestones) and personalized calendar ETAs in one view.

Reach for this when the question is 'where am I on the path to fluency and when do I hit the next milestone?'
```
dreaming roadmap --agent
```

External-hours logging

external import — Import a backlog of outside listening/watching hours from a CSV in one command instead of dozens of web-form clicks.

Use this whenever a learner has weeks of un-logged podcast/Netflix time to reconcile in bulk.
```
dreaming external import backlog.csv --preview
```

Local state that compounds

transcript — Fetch a video's captions as clean, timestamp-free plain text (and cache the cue-level transcript).

Pick this when an agent needs to read or summarize what a single video actually says rather than just its title and tags.
```
dreaming transcript 5f3a1b2c4d5e6f7a8b9c0d1e --agent
```
concordance — Search every cached transcript for a word, phrase, regex, or verb-tense pattern and get each hit in context with the video, level, guide, and timestamp.

Reach for this to find real, level-appropriate examples of a word or grammar form in context - the core ritual of grammar-in-context study.
```
dreaming concordance --tense subjunctive-imperfect --level intermediate --agent
```

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

day-watched-time — Manage day watched time

dreaming-pp-cli day-watched-time — List per-day on-platform watch time

external-time — Manage external time

dreaming-pp-cli external-time add — Log an external input-time entry
dreaming-pp-cli external-time delete — Delete an external input-time entry by id
dreaming-pp-cli external-time list — List your external (outside-platform) input-time log entries

inspect-external-video — Manage inspect external video

dreaming-pp-cli inspect-external-video — Resolve a YouTube URL for external-time logging

playlist — Manage playlist

dreaming-pp-cli playlist — List your watched-video playlist

sign-in — Manage sign in

dreaming-pp-cli sign-in — Exchange email/password for a bearer token

user — Manage user

dreaming-pp-cli user — Get your account stats (hours, daily goal, subscription)

video — Manage video

dreaming-pp-cli video — Get a single video's metadata, captions, and stream sources

videos — Manage videos

dreaming-pp-cli videos — List the video catalog

Finding the right command

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

dreaming-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

Plan to a deadline

dreaming plan --target 600h --by 2026-12-31

Back-solves the daily minutes you need to reach 600 hours (L5, speaking recommended) by a date.

Find the next video, agent-friendly

dreaming next --limit 5 --agent

Returns the next unwatched, level-appropriate videos as structured JSON for an agent to recommend.

Narrow a large catalog payload

dreaming next --level beginner --dialect rioplatense --agent --select title,guide,difficulty

The picker returns verbose video records; --select trims each to just the fields an agent needs.

Break down watched hours by teacher

dreaming stats by-guide --agent

Aggregates your watched videos per guide from the local store as structured JSON.

Check readiness to level up

dreaming diet --window 90d --agent

Shows whether the difficulty of what you actually watched is climbing over the last 90 days.

Read a video's transcript

dreaming transcript 5f3a1b2c4d5e6f7a8b9c0d1e

Fetches the inline captions and prints clean, timestamp-free text an agent can read or summarize.

Resolve a downloadable stream

dreaming download 5f3a1b2c4d5e6f7a8b9c0d1e

Prints the signed HLS URL and a ready ffmpeg command; add --exec to download when ffmpeg is installed.

Find a verb tense in real content

dreaming concordance --tense subjunctive-imperfect --level beginner

After 'transcript sync', returns level-appropriate sentences using the imperfect subjunctive, each with its video and timestamp.

Concordance a specific word

dreaming concordance "entonces" --agent --select context,video_title,timestamp

Keyword-in-context hits for a word across the whole corpus as structured JSON for an agent.

Auth Setup

Dreaming has no official API. Authenticate with your account bearer token: copy it from your browser's localStorage 'token' key on app.dreaming.com (run dreaming auth setup for the steps), then run dreaming auth set-token <token> or set DREAMING_TOKEN. You can also exchange email/password for a token with sign-in. Tokens expire periodically - re-run auth set-token (or re-export DREAMING_TOKEN) when you hit a 401.

Run dreaming-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:
```
dreaming-pp-cli day-watched-time --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:

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.local/share/dreaming-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless DREAMING_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or DREAMING_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:

Sink	Effect
`stdout`	Default; write to stdout only
`file:<path>`	Atomically write output to `<path>` (tmp + rename)
`webhook:<url>`	POST the output body to the URL (`application/json` or `application/x-ndjson` when `--compact`)

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.

dreaming-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
dreaming-pp-cli --profile briefing day-watched-time
dreaming-pp-cli profile list --json
dreaming-pp-cli profile show briefing
dreaming-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

Code	Meaning
0	Success
2	Usage error (wrong arguments)
3	Resource not found
4	Authentication required
5	API error (upstream issue)
7	Rate limited (wait and retry)
10	Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Empty, help, or --help → show dreaming-pp-cli --help output
Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
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 dreaming-pp-mcp -- dreaming-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed: which dreaming-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.

Execute with the --agent flag:

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

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