korean-cinema-search

Korean Cinema Search is a Korean-locale entertainment skill for searching CGV, Megabox, and Lotte Cinema theaters, now-showing movies, showtimes, and remaining-seat availability. It solves the problem of comparing cinema listings across the three major Korean chains without automating booking. It is a thin CLI-stub skill: the SKILL.md points to an npx command that prints the full runtime-aware instructions, and the repository intentionally does not vendor upstream code, instead wrapping the open-source daiso CLI and daiso-mcp project.

The preferred workflow is CLI-first: run daiso health, then query public endpoints for theaters, movies, timetables, and seats per chain (CGV timetables; Megabox and Lotte Cinema seat endpoints), always normalizing dates to Asia/Seoul YYYYMMDD and passing a playDate. It documents required inputs (cinema chain, theater or area keyword, movie title when checking seats, and date), a per-chain input matrix, and a conservative response format that cites the query time and notes public-endpoint variability. A fallback path clones the upstream daiso-mcp repository, builds it, and runs the compiled binary directly. The skill also carries explicit safety hard-rules against payments, submissions, cancellations, or storing plaintext credentials, and against bypassing CAPTCHA or identity boundaries.

It targets moviegoers in Korea who want to find theaters, check what is showing, compare showtimes, or see seat availability. It explicitly scopes out booking, payment, seat reservation, and login automation, and notes failure modes such as intermittent upstream 5xx errors and broad keywords mixing in other branches. It is a read-only search tool built on standard npm/CLI tooling.