pp-ufo-goat

name: pp-ufo description: "The declassified UAP file archive in your terminal — browse, search, and download 162+ files from the PURSUE initiative, organized by government release tranche. Trigger phrases: check UFO files, search declassified UAP, download PURSUE files, war.gov UFO, browse UFO archive, latest UFO release, did a new UFO batch drop, compare UFO releases, use ufo." author: "Dave Morin" license: "Apache-2.0" argument-hint: " [args] | install cli|mcp" allowed-tools: "Read Bash" metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - ufo-goat-pp-cli install: - kind: go bins: [ufo-goat-pp-cli] module: github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/other/ufo-goat/cmd/ufo-goat-pp-cli

War.gov UFO — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the ufo-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:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install ufo-goat --cli-only
   

2. Verify: ufo-goat-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH.

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/other/ufo-goat/cmd/ufo-goat-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

The first CLI for the War.gov/UFO declassified files portal. Search across every contributing agency (DoD/DoW, FBI, NASA, State, CIA, DOE, ODNI, and more), download files with resume support, track new release tranches, and discover video-PDF pairings — all from a single binary with offline SQLite storage.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when you need to browse, search, or download declassified UAP files from the War.gov PURSUE archive. Ideal for researchers tracking new releases, journalists investigating specific incidents, or agents that need structured access to government UFO data.

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 state that compounds

• sync — Automatically detect and fetch new file tranches as the government releases them on a rolling basis

  Agents monitoring the PURSUE release schedule get notified of new files without manual checking

  ufo-goat-pp-cli sync
  

• new — Show the files in the latest government release tranche — the 'what just dropped' command, scoped to the batch instead of your sync timing

  When an agent needs to see exactly what the most recent PURSUE batch contained, regardless of when it last synced. Use --release N for an older tranche, or --since/--since-sync for the old sync-timing behavior.

  ufo-goat-pp-cli new --agent
  ufo-goat-pp-cli new --release 1 --agent
  

• releases — Treat the PURSUE batch as a first-class lens: list every tranche, compare two, and detect when a new one lands

  The government declassifies files in batches (release_1, release_2, …). releases summarizes each batch's date, file count, and agency/type mix; releases check is the cron-friendly "did a new batch drop?" probe that exits 3 when nothing is new.

  ufo-goat-pp-cli releases --agent
  ufo-goat-pp-cli releases diff 1 2 --agent
  ufo-goat-pp-cli releases check --exit-code --agent
  

Cross-agency intelligence

• timeline — View a chronological incident timeline spanning 1944-2025 across every contributing agency

  Researchers need to see the full picture: FBI case from 1947 next to a DoW mission report from 2024

  ufo-goat-pp-cli timeline --after 1960 --before 1970
  

• pairs — Find video-PDF pairings so researchers can locate the document that accompanies a video and vice versa

  41 videos have paired documents — this command surfaces the connections instantly

  ufo-goat-pp-cli pairs --agent
  

• agencies — See which agency contributed what: file counts, types, date ranges, and coverage analysis

  Quick answer to 'what did the FBI release vs NASA vs DoW'

  ufo-goat-pp-cli agencies --json --select name,file_count,types
  

• locations — Aggregate incidents by geographic location for mapping and spatial analysis

  25 incidents in Western US, 12 in Syria, 9 on the Moon — spatial patterns emerge from aggregation

  ufo-goat-pp-cli locations --json
  

Agent-native plumbing

• download — Download files with resume support, verification, and progress tracking for the 2.3 GB archive

  The archive is 2.3 GB of PDFs alone — agents need reliable batch downloads with state tracking

  ufo-goat-pp-cli download --agency FBI --resume
  

Command Reference

agencies — Government agencies contributing to the PURSUE release

• ufo-goat-pp-cli agencies — List all contributing agencies with file counts

files — Declassified UAP files (PDFs, videos, images) from FBI, DoD, NASA, State Department

• ufo-goat-pp-cli files get — Get details of a specific file
• ufo-goat-pp-cli files list — List all declassified UAP files (filter by --agency, --type, --location, --release)
• ufo-goat-pp-cli files search — Full-text search across file titles, descriptions, and locations (--release scopes to a tranche)

releases — Browse the archive by government release tranche (batch)

• ufo-goat-pp-cli releases — Summarize every release tranche (number, date, file count, agency/type mix)
• ufo-goat-pp-cli releases diff <from> <to> — Compare the composition of two tranches
• ufo-goat-pp-cli releases check — Detect whether a new tranche has landed (--exit-code exits 3 when nothing new; --no-sync skips the fetch)

new — Show files in the latest release tranche

• ufo-goat-pp-cli new — Files in the latest tranche (--release N, or --since/--since-sync for sync-timing)

sources — Configure where the manifest is synced from

• ufo-goat-pp-cli sources — List known manifest sources (community/legacy/wargov)
• ufo-goat-pp-cli sync --source <name> — Sync from a named source (or --manifest-url <url>; env UFO_SOURCE / UFO_MANIFEST_URL). Default community tracks every release tranche.

Finding the right command

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

ufo-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.

Recipes

Find all Moon incidents

ufo-goat-pp-cli files list --location Moon --json --select title,agency,incident_date

Surfaces Apollo-era lunar UAP observations from NASA files

Download all FBI files

ufo-goat-pp-cli download --agency FBI --resume

Batch download with resume support for the 56 FBI contributions

Cross-agency timeline for the 1960s

ufo-goat-pp-cli timeline --after 1960 --before 1970 --agent

See incidents across all agencies during the peak UFO era

Find video-document pairs

ufo-goat-pp-cli pairs --json --select video_title,pdf_title,agency

Discover which videos have accompanying PDF reports

Track new releases by batch

ufo-goat-pp-cli sync && ufo-goat-pp-cli releases --agent

Fetch the latest manifest, then summarize every government release tranche. sync reports any newly-landed batch; releases shows the full batch breakdown. The default community source tracks every tranche; run ufo-goat-pp-cli sources to see or change it.

Detect a newly-dropped batch on a schedule

ufo-goat-pp-cli releases check --exit-code --agent

Cron/scheduler-friendly: syncs, reports any new tranche as JSON, and exits 3 when nothing is new so a wrapper can branch on it.

Browse one release tranche

ufo-goat-pp-cli new --release 1 --agent
ufo-goat-pp-cli files list --release 1 --json --select title,agency,type

Scope any listing to a single PURSUE batch via --release N (also on search and timeline).

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run ufo-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:

  ufo-goat-pp-cli agencies --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 — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.ufo-goat-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless UFO_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or UFO_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.

ufo-goat-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
ufo-goat-pp-cli --profile briefing agencies
ufo-goat-pp-cli profile list --json
ufo-goat-pp-cli profile show briefing
ufo-goat-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 ufo-goat-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/other/ufo-goat/cmd/ufo-goat-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add ufo-goat-pp-mcp -- ufo-goat-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which ufo-goat-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:

   ufo-goat-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

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