pp-redmine

Redmine — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the redmine-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 redmine --cli-only
```
Verify: redmine-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 (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/project-management/redmine/cmd/redmine-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.

Redmine's REST API is deeply relational but strictly request-per-entity — no burndown endpoint, no workload endpoint, no staleness concept. This CLI absorbs the full REST surface (issues, projects, time entries, wiki, versions, memberships, and more) and adds a synced SQLite mirror underneath, so burndown, workload, cycle-time, and blocker-chain questions resolve to one local query instead of dozens of live requests.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI for any Redmine workflow: triaging and updating issues, logging and reporting time, planning releases against versions, managing projects/users/memberships, and — uniquely — cross-entity reporting (burndown, workload, cycle-time, staleness, blocker chains) that Redmine's own REST API and web UI cannot answer in one call. Good for agents scripting bulk issue updates, CI jobs that log time entries, and periodic digest/health checks.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

Do not use this CLI for real-time Gantt chart rendering or rich visual roadmap graphics — it reports the same underlying data as text/JSON, not a visual timeline.
Do not use this CLI to edit wiki page rich text/attachments inline — wiki update accepts plain Textile/Markdown body text, not a WYSIWYG diff.
Do not use this CLI for Redmine account self-service (password reset, 2FA enrollment) — that requires the web login UI.
Do not use this CLI to sync or mirror issues with GitHub/GitLab/Jira — it only talks to a single Redmine instance's REST API.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local state that compounds

roadmap burndown — See open/closed issue counts, average completion, and logged-vs-estimated hours for a release version — the Roadmap page Redmine never exposed as an API.

Reach for this before a release-readiness call instead of hand-counting issues in the web UI.
```
redmine-pp-cli roadmap burndown 1.0 --project demo --json
```
workload — See every assignee's open-issue count and estimated hours in one aggregate view, with a flag for anyone over threshold.

Use this before sprint planning to catch overload without opening every engineer's issue list one by one.
```
redmine-pp-cli workload --project demo --threshold 5 --json
```
issues stale — Find open issues nobody has touched in N days — Redmine has no built-in staleness concept.

Use this for triage sweeps to surface issues that fell through the cracks, not recently active ones.
```
redmine-pp-cli issues stale --project demo --days 14 --json
```
digest — A personal activity report of what was created, updated, or closed in a time window, optionally scoped to issues assigned to or watched by you.

Use this for a 'what did I miss' catch-up instead of paging through each project's activity feed by hand.
```
redmine-pp-cli digest --since 7d --mine --json
```
issues cycle-time — Average days from creation to close, grouped by tracker or project — real duration math the API can't do.

Use this to spot which issue types are taking longer than they should to resolve.
```
redmine-pp-cli issues cycle-time --group-by tracker --project demo --json
```
issues blockers — Walk the full multi-hop 'blocks'/'blocked by' dependency chain for an issue, not just its direct relations.

Use this before starting work on an issue to confirm it isn't blocked three hops away by something you haven't seen yet.
```
redmine-pp-cli issues blockers 3 --depth 3 --json
```

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

attachments — Status: Beta, Availability: 1.3

redmine-pp-cli attachments delete — Delete attachment
redmine-pp-cli attachments download-file — Undocumented: This operation is not listed in the official documentation.
redmine-pp-cli attachments download-thumbnail — Undocumented: This operation is not listed in the official documentation.
redmine-pp-cli attachments get — Show attachment
redmine-pp-cli attachments update — Update attachment

custom-fields-json — Manage custom fields json

redmine-pp-cli custom-fields-json — List custom fields

enumerations — Status: Alpha, Availability: 2.2

redmine-pp-cli enumerations get-document-categories — List document categories
redmine-pp-cli enumerations get-issue-priorities — List issue priorities
redmine-pp-cli enumerations get-time-entry-activities — List time entry activities

groups — Status: Alpha, Availability: 2.1

redmine-pp-cli groups delete — Delete group
redmine-pp-cli groups get — Show group
redmine-pp-cli groups update — Update group

groups-json — Manage groups json

redmine-pp-cli groups-json create-group — Create group
redmine-pp-cli groups-json get-groups — List groups

issue-categories — Status: Alpha, Availability: 1.3

redmine-pp-cli issue-categories delete-issue-category — Delete issue category
redmine-pp-cli issue-categories get-issue-category — Show issue category
redmine-pp-cli issue-categories update-issue-category — Update issue category

issue-statuses-json — Manage issue statuses json

redmine-pp-cli issue-statuses-json — List issue statuses

issues — Status: Stable, Availability: 1.0

redmine-pp-cli issues delete — Delete issue
redmine-pp-cli issues get — Show issue
redmine-pp-cli issues update — Update issue

issues-json — Manage issues json

redmine-pp-cli issues-json create-issue — Create issue
redmine-pp-cli issues-json get-issues — List issues

journals — Status: Alpha, Availability: 5.0

redmine-pp-cli journals <journal_id> — The journal is deleted when it is updated with empty notes and has no property changes (details).

memberships — Manage memberships

redmine-pp-cli memberships delete — Delete membership
redmine-pp-cli memberships get — Show membership
redmine-pp-cli memberships update — Warning

my — Manage my

redmine-pp-cli my get-account — Show my account
redmine-pp-cli my update-account — Requests authenticated via OAuth are rejected with 403, regardless of the token's scopes.

news — Status: Stable, Availability: 1.1

redmine-pp-cli news delete — Delete news
redmine-pp-cli news get — Show news
redmine-pp-cli news update — Update news

news-json — Manage news json

redmine-pp-cli news-json — List news

projects — Status: Stable, Availability: 1.0

redmine-pp-cli projects delete — Delete project
redmine-pp-cli projects get — Show project
redmine-pp-cli projects update — Update project

projects-json — Manage projects json

redmine-pp-cli projects-json create-project — Create project
redmine-pp-cli projects-json get-projects — List projects

queries-json — Manage queries json

redmine-pp-cli queries-json — List queries

relations — Manage relations

redmine-pp-cli relations delete-issue — Delete issue relation
redmine-pp-cli relations get-issue — Show issue relation

roles — Status: Alpha, Availability: 1.4

redmine-pp-cli roles <role_id> — Show role

roles-json — Manage roles json

redmine-pp-cli roles-json — List roles

search-json — Manage search json

redmine-pp-cli search-json — Search

time-entries — Status: Stable, Availability: 1.1

redmine-pp-cli time-entries delete-time-entry — Delete time entry
redmine-pp-cli time-entries get-time-entry — Show time entry
redmine-pp-cli time-entries update-time-entry — Update time entry

time-entries-json — Manage time entries json

redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json create-time-entry — Create time entry
redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json get-time-entries — List time entries

trackers-json — Manage trackers json

redmine-pp-cli trackers-json — List trackers

uploads-json — Manage uploads json

redmine-pp-cli uploads-json — Upload attachment file

users — Status: Stable, Availability: 1.1

redmine-pp-cli users delete — Delete user
redmine-pp-cli users get — Show user
redmine-pp-cli users get-current — Show current user
redmine-pp-cli users update — Update user

users-json — Manage users json

redmine-pp-cli users-json create-user — Create user
redmine-pp-cli users-json get-users — List users

versions — Status: Alpha, Availability: 1.3

redmine-pp-cli versions delete — Delete version
redmine-pp-cli versions get — Show version
redmine-pp-cli versions update — Update version

Freshness Contract

This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In --data-source auto mode, those paths check sync_state and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. --data-source local never refreshes. --data-source live reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set REDMINE_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1 to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection.

Covered paths:

redmine-pp-cli custom-fields-json
redmine-pp-cli custom-fields-json get
redmine-pp-cli custom-fields-json list
redmine-pp-cli custom-fields-json search
redmine-pp-cli enumerations
redmine-pp-cli enumerations get
redmine-pp-cli enumerations list
redmine-pp-cli enumerations search
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-issue-priorities-json
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-issue-priorities-json get
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-issue-priorities-json list
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-issue-priorities-json search
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-time-entry-activities-json
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-time-entry-activities-json get
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-time-entry-activities-json list
redmine-pp-cli enumerations-time-entry-activities-json search
redmine-pp-cli groups-json
redmine-pp-cli groups-json get
redmine-pp-cli groups-json list
redmine-pp-cli groups-json search
redmine-pp-cli issue-statuses-json
redmine-pp-cli issue-statuses-json get
redmine-pp-cli issue-statuses-json list
redmine-pp-cli issue-statuses-json search
redmine-pp-cli issues-json
redmine-pp-cli issues-json get
redmine-pp-cli issues-json list
redmine-pp-cli issues-json search
redmine-pp-cli memberships-json
redmine-pp-cli memberships-json get
redmine-pp-cli memberships-json list
redmine-pp-cli memberships-json search
redmine-pp-cli news-json
redmine-pp-cli news-json get
redmine-pp-cli news-json list
redmine-pp-cli news-json search
redmine-pp-cli projects-json
redmine-pp-cli projects-json get
redmine-pp-cli projects-json list
redmine-pp-cli projects-json search
redmine-pp-cli queries-json
redmine-pp-cli queries-json get
redmine-pp-cli queries-json list
redmine-pp-cli queries-json search
redmine-pp-cli roles-json
redmine-pp-cli roles-json get
redmine-pp-cli roles-json list
redmine-pp-cli roles-json search
redmine-pp-cli search-json
redmine-pp-cli search-json get
redmine-pp-cli search-json list
redmine-pp-cli search-json search
redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json
redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json get
redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json list
redmine-pp-cli time-entries-json search
redmine-pp-cli trackers-json
redmine-pp-cli trackers-json get
redmine-pp-cli trackers-json list
redmine-pp-cli trackers-json search
redmine-pp-cli users-json
redmine-pp-cli users-json get
redmine-pp-cli users-json list
redmine-pp-cli users-json search

When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at meta.freshness. Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment.

Finding the right command

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

redmine-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

Triage open bugs with a narrow agent payload

redmine-pp-cli issues-json get-issues --project-id demo --status-id o --tracker-id 1 --agent --select id,subject,tracker.name,priority.name

Nested tracker/priority/status objects on every issue add up fast across a full project; --select keeps only the fields an agent actually needs to triage.

Find issues nobody has touched in two weeks

redmine-pp-cli issues stale --project demo --days 14 --json

Surfaces open issues with no recent activity, which Redmine itself has no concept of.

See who's carrying the most open work

redmine-pp-cli workload --project demo --threshold 5

One command instead of opening each engineer's assigned-issue list to eyeball the count.

Trace why an issue is blocked

redmine-pp-cli issues blockers 3 --depth 3

Walks the full transitive blocker chain instead of clicking through each linked issue one hop at a time.

Check release readiness for a version

redmine-pp-cli roadmap burndown 1.0 --project demo --json

Open/closed counts, average done_ratio, and hours variance for the version in one call, replacing a manual Roadmap-page count.

Auth Setup

Redmine is self-hosted, so two things are required instead of just a key: REDMINE_BASE_URL (your instance's base URL) and REDMINE_API_KEY (from your account's My Account page, or Administration > Settings > API for admins). Both are sent as-is — REDMINE_API_KEY becomes the X-Redmine-API-Key header on every request.

Run redmine-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color.

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:
```
redmine-pp-cli attachments get mock-value --agent --select attachment
```
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 confirmation — --agent does not imply --yes; pass --yes separately only after the target, arguments, and side effects are clear
Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success, and use --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.

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 REDMINE_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.
Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: REDMINE_CONFIG_DIR, REDMINE_DATA_DIR, REDMINE_STATE_DIR, REDMINE_CACHE_DIR.
Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, REDMINE_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 redmine-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": {
    "redmine": {
      "command": "redmine-pp-mcp",
      "env": {
        "REDMINE_HOME": "/srv/redmine"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use REDMINE_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 REDMINE_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Automatic learning

This CLI ships a self-capturing learning loop. The CLI does its own bookkeeping: every invocation is journaled locally, a failed flag followed by a corrected retry auto-derives a flag_alias candidate, and a teach on a query family without a playbook auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal. Your job is judgment only: recall first, act on surfaced candidates, teach the final answer, playbook amend when you observe a correction. You never record failures by hand.

Step 1: `recall` before any discovery

Before list/search/drill commands on a new user question, run:

redmine-pp-cli recall "<user's question>" --agent

The response envelope:

{
  "query": "...",
  "normalized": "<normalized form>",
  "query_entities": ["..."],
  "found": true | false,
  "match_score": 0.0,
  "results": [
    { "resource_id": "...", "resource_type": "...", "venue": "...",
      "confidence": 2, "entity_match": "exact|partial|unknown",
      "source": "taught|preseed|pattern", "warnings": ["..."] }
  ],
  "mismatches": [ /* only when --debug-mismatches */ ],
  "warnings": [ /* top-level */ ],
  "candidates": [
    { "id": 12, "class": "flag_alias | playbook_candidate",
      "summary": "...", "sightings": 3, "last_seen": "...",
      "rationale": "...",
      "next_action": ["<trial command>", "redmine-pp-cli learnings confirm 12"] }
  ],
  "playbook": {
    "query_family": "...",
    "playbook": {
      "steps": [ { "cmd": "<command with {slot} substitution>", "purpose": "..." } ],
      "entity_slots": ["$ENTITY"],
      "expected_tool_calls": 3
    },
    "slots_resolved": { "$ENTITY": { "token": "<live token>", "canonical": "<canonical>" } },
    "notes": "<workarounds + gotchas for this query family>"
  },
  "notes": "<duplicate surface for non-playbook callers>"
}

Empty-store short-circuit: if the store has no learnings, playbooks, or candidates yet (recall finds nothing and learnings list and learnings candidates are both empty), skip recall for the rest of this session instead of taxing every query; resume recall-first once something has been taught.

Step 2: decision tree

Read candidates, playbook, notes, results[0], and warnings in that order:

if Candidates present (warnings include "candidates_present"):
    -> candidates are try-then-confirm, never facts. Follow each candidate's
       two-step next_action verbatim: run the trial command first, then run
       `learnings confirm <id>` only after the trial verified the behavior.
       Reject a wrong candidate with `learnings reject <id>`.
    -> NEVER re-teach something recall surfaced as a candidate; confirm or
       reject that candidate instead of teaching a duplicate.
    -> candidates ride alongside playbooks and resource hits, not instead of
       them; continue with the branches below after acting on them.

if Playbook present:
    -> READ Playbook.notes verbatim FIRST (workarounds + gotchas the CLI surface doesn't expose)
    -> replay Playbook.steps in order, substituting Playbook.slots_resolved entries
       for the entity slot tokens. If a step's slot is unresolved, fall back to
       discovery for that step only.
    -> the Playbook's expected_tool_calls is a budget; if you find yourself running
       materially more, record the divergence via `redmine-pp-cli playbook amend`
       at end-of-session.

elif Notes present (no Playbook):
    -> read Notes verbatim before any discovery step; they carry known gotchas
       for this query family even when no structured choreography exists yet.

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "exact" AND Results[0].Confidence >= 2:
    -> skip discovery; fetch live data for Results[*].ResourceID in parallel

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "partial":
    -> candidate hint, NOT a hit; read the resource title to validate before trusting

elif (any row in Mismatches[] when --debug-mismatches was passed):
    -> treat as cold start; the stored learning is for a different entity
       (different canonical resolved from query_entities)

else:  // Found == false, no playbook, no notes
    -> cold start; run discovery normally; teach the answer afterward (Step 4).
       If the family has no playbook yet, that teach auto-synthesizes a
       playbook candidate from this session's journal - you do not need to
       record one by hand.

Playbook and Notes are orthogonal to the per-resource path. A recall response can carry both a Playbook AND a Results[] hit - use both: the Playbook tells you which choreography to run; the resource hits short-circuit specific steps. Default to skipping mismatches; pass --debug-mismatches only when investigating cold-start surprises.

Candidate judgment details: learnings confirm <id> prints the candidate's full payload before materializing it - check that the printed payload matches the behavior you verified. learnings reject <id> tombstones the derivation signature so the same candidate does not resurface. The envelope carries only the few candidates worth acting on now; redmine-pp-cli learnings candidates lists the full open set.

Graceful degradation: if learnings confirm is an unknown command, you are driving an older binary - ignore the candidates guidance and follow the rest of the protocol.

Step 3: always read `warnings`

low_confidence: row exists at confidence<2. Treat as a hint, not a skip-discovery hit.
resource_not_in_store: the local store doesn't have the resource the learning points at. The match validator couldn't classify entities — direct-fetch and re-evaluate.
cross_alias_match (per-result): the row was taught under a different alias and matched the live query's canonical via entity_lookups (e.g., a "USA" teach satisfying a "United States" recall). Trust the resource_id.
similar_shape_different_entity:<canonical> (top-level): a structurally matching row exists but its canonical entity differs from the live query's. Treated as cold start; the warning carries the conflicting canonical as a hint, but the row is NOT promoted into Results.
ambiguous_alias (top-level): a single query entity resolved to multiple canonicals (e.g., "Cards" → Arizona Cardinals + St. Louis Cardinals). Surface the ambiguity from context before committing to a resource.
candidates_present (top-level): the envelope carries a candidates section. Handle it via the candidates branch in Step 2 before anything else.
lookup_refresh_available (top-level): an entity in the query has no lookup row yet, but synced data could provide one. Run redmine-pp-cli sync to refresh entity lookups.
Top-level no_learnings_for_query_family: the table had no rows above the Jaccard floor. Pure cold start.

Step 4: `teach &` after finalizing your response - always

Teaching is unconditional. After resolving a query the store could not answer, background-teach the final resource mapping - no call-count threshold, no judging whether it was "worth" learning. The teach is the anchor of the loop: it triggers playbook synthesis for a family without a playbook, and same-referent phrasings fold into one family so near-duplicate teaches do not fragment the store. Fire it after assembling your user-facing response but BEFORE emitting it, with a shell & so the call returns immediately:

redmine-pp-cli teach --query "<user's question>" --resource-type <type> --resource <id1> --resource <id2>
# (append shell `&` to background it)

Silent on success. Errors only land in teach.log under the resolved state dir. Teach the most specific resource - if the user asked a broad question and you walked through parent records to find the specific answer, teach the leaf id, not the parent. The CLI uses seeded entity_lookups for cross-alias resolution at recall time, so a teach under one alias (e.g., "Niners") satisfies future queries under another alias (e.g., "49ers", "San Francisco") automatically.

PII rule: teach the structural question with identifiers stripped - never include names, emails, phone numbers, account ids, or other personal identifiers in taught queries or notes. The CLI scans teach queries for obvious email/phone shapes and warns, but does not block; strip before teaching rather than relying on the warning.

Step 5: playbooks - optional flags, automatic synthesis

You do not need to decide whether a session "deserves" a playbook: a teach on a family without one auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal, and the next session judges it via confirm/reject. Attach explicit playbook flags only when you already hold choreography worth recording verbatim - workarounds the CLI didn't surface (silently-dropped flags, undocumented params, pagination tricks, payload gotchas). Prefer the integrated one-call form - record the resource learning and the playbook in the same teach invocation:

# Common case: record both the resource learning AND the playbook in one call.
redmine-pp-cli teach \
  --query "<user's question>" \
  --resource <id> \
  --playbook-file ~/playbooks/<shape>.json \
  --playbook-notes-file ~/playbooks/<shape>-notes.md
# (append shell `&` to background it)

# Alternate: playbook-only (no resource to record alongside).
redmine-pp-cli teach-playbook \
  --query "<user's question>" \
  --playbook-file ~/playbooks/<shape>.json \
  --notes-file ~/playbooks/<shape>-notes.md

Playbook files are JSON with steps, entity_slots, expected_tool_calls. Notes files are markdown carrying the gotchas verbatim. File-free callers (MCP-only agents) pass the same content inline: --playbook-json and --playbook-notes on the integrated teach form, --playbook-json and --notes on teach-playbook. On the integrated teach form, the playbook flags are optional - omit them entirely for a resource-only teach. On the standalone teach-playbook form, at least one of the playbook and notes flags must be set; both empty is rejected. Playbooks are keyed on the structural query family (entities stripped) so a recipe taught from one entity-shaped query applies to every other query of the same shape, with slots_resolved binding the live query's canonical at recall time.

When you DO find a playbook on a future recall, treat it as ground truth: replay the steps with slots_resolved substitutions, skip the discovery that the choreography already documents, and read notes before any step.

Step 6: `playbook amend &` when your debug response identifies a correction

If your debug-protocol response identifies a concrete correction the notes or playbook should know — a workaround, an undocumented endpoint shape, a stale field name, observed schema drift, an empty-payload fallback — fire playbook amend BEFORE emitting your user-facing response. Same fire-and-forget posture as teach.

redmine-pp-cli playbook amend \
  --query "<exact recall query string>" \
  --add-note "<your concrete correction>"
# (append shell `&` to background it)

What counts as worth amending: a behavior you OBSERVED this session that future-you would benefit from knowing. Examples worth amending:

A workaround for a CLI surface that silently drops or misorders a flag.
An undocumented endpoint shape (response wrapped in {meta, results}, payload nested two levels deeper than the docs claim).
Observed schema drift (a field renamed, an index that shifted between seasons, a category label that the API now returns lower-cased).

What does NOT belong in notes:

The year-specific or entity-specific answer to the user's question. That's the response, not a learning.
Per-team / per-athlete / per-row data the playbook already retrieves at runtime.
Statements that paraphrase what the existing notes already say.

The amend command appends to the family's existing notes with a timestamped marker ([amend YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MMZ]: <text>). Multiple amends accumulate; the audit trail is visible. If no playbook exists yet for the family, amend creates a notes-only one (so cold-start corrections still land).

PII discipline for amend notes

playbook amend notes are designed to potentially flow upstream as shared knowledge in future versions of the Printing Press. Keep them clean of user-identifying content so the upstream-contribution path stays open without retroactive scrubbing:

Do NOT embed paths to user filesystems, personal API keys or tokens, user email addresses, user GitHub handles, or specific query histories tied to a single user.
Acceptable: endpoint shapes, undocumented field names, API gotchas, observed schema drift, workarounds for CLI surfaces, generalizable pagination or retry tactics.

If a correction is only meaningful with user-specific context, it belongs in a personal note, not in the playbook amend.

Measuring the loop

redmine-pp-cli learnings stats reports recall hit rate, teach-to-reuse, playbook resolution rate, and candidate confirm/reject counts from the local learn_events table. Rates are null until they have a denominator; everything stays on this machine. Use it to check whether the loop is earning its keep for this CLI.

Disabling learning

--no-learn on a single command short-circuits both recall and the teach write path. Use for deterministic agent flows or tests that must not be affected by accumulated learnings.
REDMINE_NO_LEARN=true in the environment globally disables the pipeline.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally as feedback.jsonl under the resolved data dir. They are never POSTed unless REDMINE_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or REDMINE_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 or recurring agent reuses the same saved flags while providing different input each run.

redmine-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
redmine-pp-cli --profile briefing attachments get mock-value
redmine-pp-cli profile list --json
redmine-pp-cli profile show briefing
redmine-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 redmine-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 server:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/project-management/redmine/cmd/redmine-pp-mcp@latest

claude mcp add redmine-pp-mcp -- redmine-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed: which redmine-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:

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

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

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