pp-costco-sameday

Imported from mvanhorn/printing-press-library (cli-skills/pp-costco-sameday/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-costco-sameday. Copyright stays with the author (Apache-2.0).

Costco Sameday — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the costco-sameday-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 costco-sameday --cli-only

2. Verify: costco-sameday-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 1.26.6 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/commerce/costco-sameday/cmd/costco-sameday-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.

Costco Same-Day (sameday.costco.com) GraphQL CLI. Cookie auth after Costco Azure B2C SSO. Place-order mutation is FinalizeCheckout — exposed only via gated order place (--yes + --confirm-charge; --dry-run never charges). Tip updates via UpdateCheckout tipsUpdate. Cancel mutation not captured.

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses standard HTTP transport with HTTP/2 disabled for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls. auth login starts a browser only for sign-in and closes it after capturing the session cookies; it drives that browser over --remote-debugging-pipe (no DevTools network port; Windows falls back to a 127.0.0.1 random port).

Command Reference

account — Costco Same-Day account GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli account gethouseholdbyuser — GraphQL query GetHouseholdByUser (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli account householdbyuser — GraphQL query HouseholdByUser (persistedQuery)

cart — Costco Same-Day cart GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart show (alias cart list) — cart items with quantity, unit price and line total plus an estimated subtotal (read-only; per-lb items marked estimate)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart activecartid — GraphQL query ActiveCartId (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartbottombannerquery — GraphQL query CartBottomBannerQuery (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartcheckoutvalidation — GraphQL query CartCheckoutValidation (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartcouponremovalpopupquery — GraphQL query CartCouponRemovalPopupQuery (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartonloadplacementquery — GraphQL query CartOnloadPlacementQuery (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartproductsrecomendation — GraphQL query CartProductsRecomendation (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartrecommendationsplacements — GraphQL query CartRecommendationsPlacements (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartsignaledeta — GraphQL query CartSignaledEta (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartswitchervariant — GraphQL query CartSwitcherVariant (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart carttotals — GraphQL query CartTotals (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart cartviewlayout — GraphQL query CartViewLayout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart familyexpeditedonboardingcart — GraphQL query FamilyExpeditedOnboardingCart (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart finishmycartviewlayout — GraphQL query FinishMyCartViewLayout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart finishmycartviewuilayout — GraphQL query FinishMyCartViewUILayout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart fixcartbasketforcheckout — GraphQL query FixCartBasketForCheckout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart floatingcartmessages — GraphQL query FloatingCartMessages (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart getexpresscartplacementsquery — GraphQL query GetExpressCartPlacementsQuery (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart inlinecarteppvariant — GraphQL query InlineCartEppVariant (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart othersingleretailercarts — GraphQL query OtherSingleRetailerCarts (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart personalactivecarts — GraphQL query PersonalActiveCarts (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart treatmentcartmessages — GraphQL query TreatmentCartMessages (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart updatecartitemsmutation — GraphQL mutation UpdateCartItemsMutation (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart usercart — GraphQL query UserCart (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli cart usercartenriched — GraphQL query UserCartEnriched (persistedQuery)

checkout — Costco Same-Day checkout GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutaisleitemmin — GraphQL query CheckoutAisleItemMin (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutcmd — GraphQL query CheckoutCmd (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutdraftorderinvoicev2 — GraphQL query CheckoutDraftOrderInvoiceV2 (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutheaderview — GraphQL query CheckoutHeaderView (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutpagemeta — GraphQL query CheckoutPageMeta (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout checkoutv4disclaimeronetrusttoggle — GraphQL query CheckoutV4DisclaimerOneTrustToggle (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout getexpresscheckouttoggleplacements — GraphQL query GetExpressCheckoutTogglePlacements (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout giftingexpandedcheckoutdetails — GraphQL query GiftingExpandedCheckoutDetails (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout initializecheckout — GraphQL query InitializeCheckout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout updatebuyflowpaymentinstructionsv2 — GraphQL mutation UpdateBuyflowPaymentInstructionsV2 — attach/select payment instrument on checkout session (not
• costco-sameday-pp-cli checkout updatecheckout — GraphQL mutation UpdateCheckout (persistedQuery). Tip changes use checkoutUpdates.tipsUpdate.tippingFields.

orders — Costco Same-Day orders GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli orders customercancelselections — GraphQL query CustomerCancelSelections — cancel-reason options UI.
• costco-sameday-pp-cli orders orderuptimer — GraphQL query OrderUpTimer (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli order start — open a checkout session (InitializeCheckout; never charges). Cart, shop and ZIP come from the session context; --service-type delivery|pickup (any case). --shop-id is the shop id, not the store's retailer location id (a location id is refused with the right shop id named). --dry-run sends nothing. Prints checkout_session_id for slots windows, order preview and order place
• GraphQL failures count as failures: a top-level errors array or a *Error / *ErrorResponse result type gives success: false and a non-zero exit, for generated commands and order tip alike

products — Costco Same-Day products GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli products autosuggestions --query <text> — search-box suggestions (persisted-query POST; shop from the session context)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemcardsizesearchvariant — GraphQL query ItemCardSizeSearchVariant (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetaildata — GraphQL query ItemDetailData (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailfeaturedproductlist — GraphQL query ItemDetailFeaturedProductList (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailsrecommendationsplacements — GraphQL query ItemDetailsRecommendationsPlacements (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailsretailerproduct — GraphQL query ItemDetailsRetailerProduct (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailsupplementalfields — GraphQL query ItemDetailSupplementalFields (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailsv2flags — GraphQL query ItemDetailsV2Flags (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailsv4 — GraphQL query ItemDetailsV4 (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products itemdetailviewlayout — GraphQL query ItemDetailViewLayout (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products items — GraphQL query Items (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products klarnaosmitemdetails — GraphQL query KlarnaOSMItemDetails (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products postaddtocartsearchlayoutquery — GraphQL query PostAddToCartSearchLayoutQuery (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products searchfacets — GraphQL query SearchFacets (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products searchresultsplacements --query <text> — product search with prices (same persisted-query POST as search; only --query and --limit are used)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli products viewlayoutsearchresults — GraphQL query ViewLayoutSearchResults (persistedQuery)

retailer — Costco Same-Day retailer GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli retailer currentretailer — GraphQL query CurrentRetailer (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli retailer landingretailermetas — GraphQL query LandingRetailerMetas (persistedQuery)

session — Costco Same-Day session GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli session complementaryproductitems — GraphQL query ComplementaryProductItems (persistedQuery)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli session getcobrandcreditcardoffermutation — GraphQL mutation GetCobrandCreditCardOfferMutation (persistedQuery)

slots — Costco Same-Day slots GraphQL operations

• costco-sameday-pp-cli slots etas — earliest delivery/pickup ETA, fee and label for a ZIP (read-only; --as auto|member|guest, --service all|delivery|pickup); exits non-zero with partial output if an ETA query fails; use this to answer "is Same-Day available at ZIP X"
• costco-sameday-pp-cli slots availableservices — checkout service picker; empty outside checkout (stderr warning and JSON note point to slots etas)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli slots windows --checkout-session-id <id> — delivery windows and savings labels for an open checkout (read-only; tokens hidden unless --show-tokens)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli slots pick --checkout-session-id <id> --index N — choose a window (UpdateCheckout; refuses without --yes, --dry-run previews; never places the order; a rejected update prints updated: false and exits non-zero). Ask the user before passing --yes
• costco-sameday-pp-cli address list — saved address ids plus a masked label (read-only; the street is never printed). cart cartsignaledeta auto-fills --address-id (saved address matching the ZIP) and --subtotal (cart total)
• costco-sameday-pp-cli slots slotcampaignplacement — GraphQL query SlotCampaignPlacement (persistedQuery)

Finding the right command

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

costco-sameday-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. The index covers sign-in, session, search, cart, slots and order commands. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query. --json (and other machine formats) keep that exit-2 contract and write {"matches":[]} on stdout so agents can inspect the envelope without treating a miss as success.

Auth Setup

This CLI uses a Costco Same-Day browser session. One-step sign-in (opens a headed Chrome/Chromium window in a CLI-owned profile; the user signs in; the CLI captures only the Same-Day session cookies and closes the window):

costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login

It never reads the user's main Chrome cookie store or Chrome Safe Storage. The user must complete sign-in themselves; do not script the sign-in form. Fallbacks:

costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login --chrome

Or import an existing browser capture:

costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login --cookies-file storage-state.json

--cookies-file accepts Playwright storage-state JSON or a raw Cookie: header text file. Use --cookies-file - to read the header from stdin (for example pbpaste | costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login --cookies-file -). Stdin also accepts DevTools "Copy request headers" or "Copy as cURL (bash)" output from a sameday.costco.com request. Only the __Host-instacart_sid session cookie is required; it is HttpOnly, so copy it from DevTools Network rather than document.cookie. Other Same-Day cookies are kept when present. Add --diagnose to check a paste without saving anything: it prints only the byte count, detected format, parse stage, cookie names, and whether __Host-instacart_sid is present, never values. The Chrome path requires a cookie extraction tool (pycookiecheat via pip, or cookies via Homebrew).

Run costco-sameday-pp-cli doctor to verify setup. auth status --json and doctor --json report session (valid / guest / expired, from a live read-only probe), account_type (member, guest, unknown) and session_expires. Cookie names only are reported, never values.

Troubleshooting for agents:

• Session expired or missing (exit 4, "session is missing or expired"): ask the user to run costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login and sign in.
• "Costco is rate-limiting sign-in" (429 from signin.costco.com): stop; tell the user to wait about 15-30 minutes before one more auth login. Do not retry in a loop.
• Keychain denied ("Chrome Safe Storage") on auth login --chrome: suggest auth login (browser window, no keychain) or pbpaste | costco-sameday-pp-cli auth login --cookies-file - from DevTools "Copy as cURL (bash)".
• account_type: guest: results are not the member account; ask the user to run auth login.

Agent Mode

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

Global format flags share one contract on promoted, novel, sync, and --deliver paths:

• --json — one JSON document on stdout (sync progress events go to stderr)

• --compact — keep identity/status/timestamp fields; does not change the document vs stream shape

• --csv / --plain — tabular rows (collection envelopes unwrap to the row array)

• --quiet — one identity value per row, no envelope

• 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:

  costco-sameday-pp-cli account gethouseholdbyuser --operation-name GetHouseholdByUser --agent

• 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

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 COSTCO_SAMEDAY_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: COSTCO_SAMEDAY_CONFIG_DIR, COSTCO_SAMEDAY_DATA_DIR, COSTCO_SAMEDAY_STATE_DIR, COSTCO_SAMEDAY_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, COSTCO_SAMEDAY_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 costco-sameday-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": {
      "costco-sameday": {
        "command": "costco-sameday-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "COSTCO_SAMEDAY_HOME": "/srv/costco-sameday"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use COSTCO_SAMEDAY_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 COSTCO_SAMEDAY_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:

costco-sameday-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>", "costco-sameday-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 `costco-sameday-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; costco-sameday-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 costco-sameday-pp-cli sync --resources account,cart,checkout,orders,products,retailer,session,slots 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:

costco-sameday-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.
costco-sameday-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).
costco-sameday-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.

costco-sameday-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

costco-sameday-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.
• COSTCO_SAMEDAY_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:

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

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

costco-sameday-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
costco-sameday-pp-cli --profile briefing account gethouseholdbyuser --operation-name GetHouseholdByUser
costco-sameday-pp-cli profile list --json
costco-sameday-pp-cli profile show briefing
costco-sameday-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 costco-sameday-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/commerce/costco-sameday/cmd/costco-sameday-pp-mcp@latest

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add costco-sameday-pp-mcp -- costco-sameday-pp-mcp

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which costco-sameday-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:

   costco-sameday-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

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