docs(readme): add install link, fix star count, remove self-credit

dbd5b3a20dcb87ace7bb353b0f578a988cacb398 · 2026-03-27 14:54:29 -0700 · Matt Van Horn

- Add "Get it" section near top with /install-skill command
- Update discrawl stars from 568 to 583
- Remove "-- Matt Van Horn" signature (it's my repo)
- Remove self from credits section

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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commit dbd5b3a20dcb87ace7bb353b0f578a988cacb398
Author: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 27 14:54:29 2026 -0700

    docs(readme): add install link, fix star count, remove self-credit
    
    - Add "Get it" section near top with /install-skill command
    - Update discrawl stars from 568 to 583
    - Remove "-- Matt Van Horn" signature (it's my repo)
    - Remove self from credits section
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 README.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 185b5ddd..da921e31 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,9 +10,19 @@ Just making a CLI is not hard. Making a CLI that understands the power user is e
 
 One command. 10 phases. ~1 hour. Produces a Go CLI + MCP server + 7 analysis documents. REST or GraphQL.
 
+### Get it
+
+```bash
+# Claude Code
+/install-skill https://github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
+
+# Then build the binary (needed for scorecard + verify)
+cd ~/cli-printing-press && go build -o ./printing-press ./cmd/printing-press
+```
+
 ## Every Endpoint. Every Insight. One Command.
 
-Discord's API has 300+ endpoints. Most generators stop there - wrap every endpoint, ship it, done. But [discrawl](https://github.com/steipete/discrawl) - Peter Steinberger's Discord tool - ignores most of them. It ships 11 commands: `sync`, `search`, `sql`, `tail`, `mentions`, `members`. **568 stars.**
+Discord's API has 300+ endpoints. Most generators stop there - wrap every endpoint, ship it, done. But [discrawl](https://github.com/steipete/discrawl) - Peter Steinberger's Discord tool - ignores most of them. It ships 11 commands: `sync`, `search`, `sql`, `tail`, `mentions`, `members`. **583 stars.**
 
 Why does the 11-command tool win? Because Steinberger saw something Discord's own API designers didn't: **conversations are institutional knowledge.** Every message thread is a document that should be archived, indexed, and searched locally. Those 11 commands embody that insight. The 300 endpoint wrappers don't.
 
@@ -54,8 +64,6 @@ Google's CLI wraps every endpoint but doesn't understand the user. Steinberger's
 
 That's the NOI again. Breadth doesn't beat depth. Understanding the user beats understanding the API. And /last30days saw it in the community data before I could see it myself.
 
--- [Matt Van Horn](https://github.com/mvanhorn)
-
 ## The Creativity Ladder
 
 Most API CLIs stop at Rung 1. The printing press climbs to Rung 5.
@@ -192,13 +200,20 @@ printing-press dogfood --dir ./discord-cli --spec /tmp/discord-spec.json
 
 ## Quick Start
 
+### Install the Skill (Claude Code)
+
+```bash
+/install-skill https://github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press
+```
+
+Then build the binary (needed for scorecard, verify, and dogfood commands):
+
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/mvanhorn/cli-printing-press.git
-cd cli-printing-press
+cd ~/cli-printing-press
 go build -o ./printing-press ./cmd/printing-press
 ```
 
-Then in Claude Code:
+### Run It
 
 ```bash
 /printing-press Discord                  # Full Opus run - CLI + MCP server
@@ -259,8 +274,6 @@ Safety: GET only, --limit 1, 10s timeout, stops on 401. Never creates, posts, or
 - **Peter Steinberger** ([@steipete](https://github.com/steipete)) - [discrawl](https://github.com/steipete/discrawl) and [gogcli](https://github.com/steipete/gogcli) set the bar. The quality scoring system is inspired by his work. discrawl v0.2.0's sync architecture directly influenced the printing press templates.
 - **Trevin Chow** ([@trevin](https://x.com/trevin)) - [7 Principles for Agent-Friendly CLIs](https://x.com/trevin) shaped the agent-first template design.
 - **Ramp** ([@tryramp](https://github.com/ramp-public/ramp-cli)) - Their agent-first CLI inspired auto-JSON piping, --no-input, and --compact output.
-- **Matt Van Horn** ([@mvanhorn](https://github.com/mvanhorn)) - Author of the printing press and [/last30days](https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill) recency research skill.
-
 ## License
 
 MIT

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