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- pp-table-reservation-goat
- description
- Printing Press CLI for Table Reservation Goat. One reservation CLI for OpenTable, Tock, and Resy — search all three networks at once, watch for cancellations
- author
- Pejman Pour-Moezzi
- license
- Apache-2.0
- argument-hint
- <command> [args] | install cli|mcp
- allowed-tools
- Read Bash
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# Table Reservation Goat — Printing Press CLI
## Prerequisites: Install the CLI
This skill drives the `table-reservation-goat-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 `$HOME/.local/bin` on macOS/Linux and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin` on Windows:
```bash
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install table-reservation-goat --cli-only
```
2. Verify: `table-reservation-goat-pp-cli --version`
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on `$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 1.26.5 or newer). This installs into `$GOPATH/bin` (default `$HOME/go/bin`), so add that directory to `$PATH` instead:
```bash
go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/food-and-dining/table-reservation-goat/cmd/table-reservation-goat-pp-cli@latest
```
If `--version` reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on `$PATH`. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.
One reservation CLI for OpenTable, Tock, and Resy — search all three networks at once, watch for cancellations, book + cancel end-to-end, and track changes from a local store agents can query.
## Command Reference
**availability** — Check open reservation slots across OpenTable, Tock, and Resy
- `table-reservation-goat-pp-cli availability check` — Check open slots for a restaurant on a specific date and party size
- `table-reservation-goat-pp-cli availability multi-day` — Multi-day availability for a single restaurant — Mon-Sun matrix
**experiences** — List prepaid and tasting-menu experiences (Tock-style)
**me** — Read your authenticated user profile from both networks
**reservations** — List, book, modify, and cancel reservations (requires auth login)
OpenTable attach booking is enabled only when `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_OT_CHROME_DEBUG_URL` is explicitly configured and the attached profile is already signed in. Use `TRG_ALLOW_BOOK=prepare` to drive through an enabled final confirmation control without clicking it; only `TRG_ALLOW_BOOK=1` may place the reservation. Typed failures are `attach_unreachable`, `not_signed_in`, `selector_drift`, `form_validation`, `slot_taken`, and `incomplete_confirmation`; `page_state` diagnostics are redacted and never include URL query tokens or arbitrary account labels.
Tock booking prefers the signed-in Chrome session at `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_TOCK_CHROME_DEBUG_URL` (default `http://localhost:9222`) and keeps the stealth-headless session fallback. It tries legacy slot buttons first, then the exact-time `/search` row and modern time-combobox/experience-card controls. Agent and `--no-input` runs never prompt for CVC: provide a 3- or 4-digit `TRG_TOCK_CVC` only when needed. Typed failures are `cvc_required` and `selector_drift`; selector diagnostics contain only a query-free path, booleans, time labels, and allowlisted control categories.
**restaurants** — Search and inspect restaurants across OpenTable, Tock, and Resy
- `table-reservation-goat-pp-cli restaurants get` — Get a restaurant's full detail — hours, address, cuisine, price band, photos, accolades
- `table-reservation-goat-pp-cli restaurants list` — List restaurants across OpenTable, Tock, and Resy; filter by location, cuisine, price band, accolades, and party size
**wishlist** — Read your saved/wishlisted restaurants from both networks
### Finding the right command
When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:
```bash
table-reservation-goat-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.
## Auth Setup
Search and availability require no account. OpenTable and Tock attach booking use the signed-in session in the attached Chrome profile; Tock keeps the saved-session stealth-headless fallback; Resy booking uses its saved API token.
Run `table-reservation-goat-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:
```bash
```
- **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 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:
```json
{
"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 `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_HOME=<dir>` to relocate all four path kinds under one root.
- Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_CONFIG_DIR`, `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_DATA_DIR`, `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_STATE_DIR`, `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_CACHE_DIR`.
- Resolution order is per-kind env var, `--home`, `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_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 `table-reservation-goat-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:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"table-reservation-goat": {
"command": "table-reservation-goat-pp-mcp",
"env": {
"TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_HOME": "/srv/table-reservation-goat"
}
}
}
}
```
Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit `--home` for that kind. Use `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_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 `TABLE_RESERVATION_GOAT_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:
```bash
table-reservation-goat-pp-cli recall "<user's question>" --agent
```
The response envelope:
```json
{
"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>", "table-reservation-goat-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 `table-reservation-goat-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; `table-reservation-goat-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 `table-reservation-goat-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:
```bash
table-reservation-goat-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:
```bash
# Common case: record both the resource learning AND the playbook in one call.
table-reservation-goat-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)
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