pp-hotel-tonight

name: pp-hotel-tonight description: "Last-minute hotel deals with a local price-history database no HotelTonight client has — snapshot deals over time,... Trigger phrases: find a last-minute hotel tonight, watch this city for hotel price drops, is this hotel price a good deal, what's the daily drop in San Francisco, cheapest hotel night this weekend, use hotel-tonight, run hotel-tonight." author: "Trevin Chow" license: "Apache-2.0" argument-hint: " [args] | install cli|mcp" allowed-tools: "Read Bash" metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - hotel-tonight-pp-cli install: - kind: go bins: [hotel-tonight-pp-cli] module: github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/hotel-tonight/cmd/hotel-tonight-pp-cli

HotelTonight — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the hotel-tonight-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 hotel-tonight --cli-only
   

2. Verify: hotel-tonight-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 1.26.4 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/hotel-tonight/cmd/hotel-tonight-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.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or script needs last-minute hotel deal data from HotelTonight that persists and compounds: monitoring a city for price drops, building a price history for a hotel, judging whether a quoted rate is actually cheap, or comparing neighborhoods and dates. It is read-only and anonymous — it never books and never needs a login.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

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

Local price intelligence

• watch — Snapshot a location's deals now and get told which rooms dropped below your threshold or fell since you last looked.

  Reach for this when an agent needs to monitor a city for last-minute hotel price drops over time instead of re-querying blind.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli watch --lat 37.7749 --lng -122.4194 --when tonight --below 150 --agent
  

• history — Show the recorded price and % off history for one hotel from the local store.

  Use when you need the actual price trajectory of a hotel rather than a single ephemeral quote.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli history "Argonaut Hotel" --days 30 --agent
  

• verdict — Classify a hotel's current quoted price against its own observed low/median/high as cheap, typical, or expensive.

  Reach for this to answer 'is this actually cheap?' with a grounded baseline instead of a guess.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli verdict "Argonaut Hotel" --agent
  

Live deal views

• compare-neighborhoods — Group tonight's deals in a metro by neighborhood and rank the neighborhoods by median price or best % off.

  Use when deciding which area of a city has the best last-minute value tonight.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli compare-neighborhoods --metro 1 --when tonight --agent
  

• datescan — Compare a location's deals across tonight, tomorrow, and the weekend in one ranked side-by-side view.

  Reach for this to find the cheapest night to stay in an area without running the search repeatedly.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli datescan --lat 30.3071 --lng -97.7354 --agent
  

• daily-drop — Reveal today's Daily Drop hotel and its real discounted price for a market (the app hides it behind a slide-to-unlock gate), and with --history read the recorded run of past Daily Drops.

  Use to see and track HotelTonight's exclusive once-a-day flash deal, which the app hides until you unlock it and erases each day.

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli daily-drop --metro 1 --agent
  

Command Reference

inventory — Last-minute hotel deal inventory by location

• hotel-tonight-pp-cli inventory — Search last-minute hotel deals near a latitude/longitude for a date range

markets — HotelTonight markets (cities where deals are offered)

• hotel-tonight-pp-cli markets get — Get a single market by its numeric id
• hotel-tonight-pp-cli markets list — List HotelTonight's major markets with location, slug, and category prices
• hotel-tonight-pp-cli markets nearby — List popular/nearby markets for a given market id

Finding the right command

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

hotel-tonight-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

Tonight's cheapest near a coordinate, trimmed for agents

hotel-tonight-pp-cli inventory --latitude 37.7749 --longitude -122.4194 --agent --select rooms.hotel.name,rooms.hotel.neighborhood,rooms.customer_price_per_night,rooms.strikethrough_price,rooms.deal_type

The raw inventory payload is tens of KB of nested deal data; --select with dotted paths returns just the hotel, neighborhood, price, 30-day-high, and deal type so an agent doesn't burn context.

Watch a neighborhood for a price target

hotel-tonight-pp-cli watch --lat 37.7749 --lng -122.4194 --when tonight --below 150

Snapshots current deals and reports rooms now under $150 or cheaper than the last observation — run it on a cron to catch drops while you're away.

Decide which night to stay

hotel-tonight-pp-cli datescan --lat 30.3071 --lng -97.7354

Lines up tonight vs tomorrow vs the weekend for the same area so you can pick the cheapest night in one view.

Is this rate actually good?

hotel-tonight-pp-cli verdict "Argonaut Hotel"

Classifies the current quote against the hotel's own recorded low/median/high — requires a few prior syncs to build the baseline.

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run hotel-tonight-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:

  hotel-tonight-pp-cli inventory --latitude example-value --longitude example-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

• 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:

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.hotel-tonight-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless HOTEL_TONIGHT_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or HOTEL_TONIGHT_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.

hotel-tonight-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
hotel-tonight-pp-cli --profile briefing inventory --latitude example-value --longitude example-value
hotel-tonight-pp-cli profile list --json
hotel-tonight-pp-cli profile show briefing
hotel-tonight-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 hotel-tonight-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/travel/hotel-tonight/cmd/hotel-tonight-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add hotel-tonight-pp-mcp -- hotel-tonight-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which hotel-tonight-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:

   hotel-tonight-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

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