Find the best version of any recipe across 37 trusted sites — with offline cookbook, pantry match, substitution lookup, meal planning, and USDA-backed nutrition. Trigger phrases: `find the best recipe for`, `what can I make with`, `substitute for <ingredient>`, `nutrition for <recipe>`, `use recipe-goat`.
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pp-recipe-goat is a read-only recipe and food information skill designed to help users find high-quality recipes, explore ingredient nutrition data, and access food-related reference information through the Recipe Goat Printing Press CLI. It is intended to simplify recipe discovery and ingredient research by providing access to recipe-related resources and USDA FoodData Central nutrition lookups. The skill emphasizes inspection, export, synchronization, and analysis workflows rather than making changes to external services or systems.
The skill is powered by the recipe-goat-pp-cli command-line tool and includes capabilities for searching USDA food records, retrieving nutrition information for specific foods, listing available food entries, and locating the most appropriate CLI command through natural-language capability matching. It supports agent-friendly execution through JSON output modes and filtering options that help reduce response size when working with large datasets. The skill requires CLI installation and USDA FoodData Central API access for nutrition-related operations.
Typical users include home cooks, recipe researchers, nutrition-conscious individuals, food writers, and developers building automated food-information workflows. Common use cases include finding nutrition information for ingredients, searching USDA food databases, identifying available recipe-related capabilities, and integrating food data retrieval into scripts or agent-based systems. Because the CLI is read-only, it is best suited for information gathering and analysis rather than transactional activities such as ordering, booking, purchasing, publishing, or modifying remote data.
Install the recipe-goat-pp-cli binary using the provided Printing Press installer or the Go installation method, then verify the installation by running the --version command.
Yes. It provides USDA FoodData Central food search, listing, and retrieval capabilities for nutrition-related ingredient information.
A USDA FoodData Central API key must be configured through the USDA_FDC_API_KEY environment variable or stored in the CLI configuration file.
No. The documentation explicitly states that the CLI is read-only and should not be used for actions that change remote state.
Yes. Agent mode provides machine-friendly JSON output and filtering options that make the CLI suitable for automated workflows and integrations.
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