pp-intercom

Intercom — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the intercom-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 intercom --cli-only
   

2. Verify: intercom-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 1.26.5 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/sales-and-crm/intercom/cmd/intercom-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.

When to Use This CLI

Use intercom-pp-cli when you need to run the same Intercom operation across many records, when the official MCP doesn't reach your workspace (EU/AU), when you need offline analytics the API doesn't compute (first-response SLA, contact 360 joins), or when you're building an agent that triages, tags, or summarizes conversations and needs every Intercom action as a callable tool.

When NOT to Use This CLI

• Fin AI agent runtime. Fin's /fin/start and /fin/reply endpoints stream over webhooks; this CLI can't drive an interactive Fin session.
• Intercom billing or workspace administration. Subscription tier changes, seat counts, and billing details aren't on the public REST surface and aren't part of this CLI.
• Messenger SDK install or in-app message rendering. This is a server-side REST client; for embedding the Messenger in a product, use Intercom's web/mobile SDKs.
• Conversation rebalancing across teams as a routing engine. Run the runAssignmentRules endpoint instead; this CLI doesn't expose a custom router.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Incident response and bulk ops

• conversations incident-tag — Tag every conversation mentioning a phrase in a time window with one safe-by-default command.

  When an incident hits, tagging 50 conversations by hand is the bottleneck; this is the single command that closes the loop without spreadsheets.

  intercom-pp-cli conversations incident-tag --mentions "checkout fails" --since 24h --tag incident-2026-05-24 --apply
  

Help center as code

• articles pull — Flatten every help-center article into a markdown tree you can edit in git, then push changes back.

  Lets docs teams version-control help-center content alongside product code; multilingual articles land as sibling files.

  intercom-pp-cli articles pull --to ./articles/
  

Local-only analytics

• contact 360 — One nested payload joining a contact across companies, conversations, tickets, notes, and tags.

  Replaces 4-6 separate API calls and a mental merge; this is the lookup an agent makes before every triage decision.

  intercom-pp-cli contact 360 mei@example.com --agent
  

• conversations sla — First-response and resolution-time metrics grouped by team or admin, computed over the local store.

  Replaces the weekly export-to-spreadsheet ritual; the API alone can't compute this in one call.

  intercom-pp-cli conversations sla --group-by team --metric first-response,resolution --since 7d --agent
  

Command Reference

admins — Everything about your Admins

• intercom-pp-cli admins list — You can fetch a list of admins for a given workspace.
• intercom-pp-cli admins list-activity-logs — You can get a log of activities by all admins in an app.
• intercom-pp-cli admins retrieve — You can retrieve the details of a single admin.

ai — Manage ai

• intercom-pp-cli ai create-content-import-source — You can create a new content import source by sending a POST request to this endpoint.
• intercom-pp-cli ai create-external-page — You can create a new external page by sending a POST request to this endpoint.
• intercom-pp-cli ai delete-content-import-source — You can delete a content import source by making a DELETE request this endpoint.
• intercom-pp-cli ai delete-external-page — Sending a DELETE request for an external page will remove it from the content library UI and from being used for AI
• intercom-pp-cli ai get-content-import-source — Retrieve a content import source
• intercom-pp-cli ai get-external-page — You can retrieve an external page.
• intercom-pp-cli ai list-content-import-sources — You can retrieve a list of all content import sources for a workspace.
• intercom-pp-cli ai list-external-pages — You can retrieve a list of all external pages for a workspace.
• intercom-pp-cli ai update-content-import-source — You can update an existing content import source.
• intercom-pp-cli ai update-external-page — You can update an existing external page (if it was created via the API).

articles — Everything about your Articles

• intercom-pp-cli articles create — You can create a new article by making a POST request to https://api.intercom.io/articles.
• intercom-pp-cli articles delete — You can delete a single article by making a DELETE request to https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>.
• intercom-pp-cli articles list — You can fetch a list of all articles by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/articles.
• intercom-pp-cli articles retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single article by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>.
• intercom-pp-cli articles search — You can search for articles by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/articles/search.
• intercom-pp-cli articles update — You can update the details of a single article by making a PUT request to https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>.

companies — Everything about your Companies

• intercom-pp-cli companies create-or-update-company — You can create or update a company.
• intercom-pp-cli companies delete-company — Delete a single company. This endpoint does not permanently remove the company.
• intercom-pp-cli companies list-all — You can list companies.
• intercom-pp-cli companies retrieve-acompany-by-id — You can fetch a single company.
• intercom-pp-cli companies retrieve-company — You can fetch a single company by passing in company_id or name. `https://api.intercom.io/companies?
• intercom-pp-cli companies scroll-over-all — The list all companies functionality does not work well for huge datasets
• intercom-pp-cli companies update-company — You can update a single company using the Intercom provisioned id.

contacts — Everything about your contacts

• intercom-pp-cli contacts create — You can create a new contact (ie. user or lead).
• intercom-pp-cli contacts delete — You can delete a single contact.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts list — You can fetch a list of all contacts (ie. users or leads) in your workspace.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts merge — You can merge a contact with a role of lead into a contact with a role of user.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts search — You can search for multiple contacts by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly who you want.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts show — You can fetch the details of a single contact.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts show-by-external-id — You can fetch the details of a single contact by external ID. Note that this endpoint only supports users and not leads.
• intercom-pp-cli contacts update — You can update an existing contact (ie. user or lead).

conversations — Everything about your Conversations

• intercom-pp-cli conversations create — You can create a conversation that has been initiated by a contact (ie. user or lead).
• intercom-pp-cli conversations delete — {% admonition type='warning' name='Irreversible operation' %} Deleting a conversation is permanent and cannot be
• intercom-pp-cli conversations list — You can fetch a list of all conversations.
• intercom-pp-cli conversations redact — You can redact a conversation part or the source message of a conversation (as seen in the source object).
• intercom-pp-cli conversations retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single conversation.
• intercom-pp-cli conversations search — You can search for multiple conversations by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly which ones you
• intercom-pp-cli conversations update — You can update an existing conversation.

custom-object-instances — Everything about your Custom Object instances. {% admonition type="warning" name="Permission Requirements" %} From now on, to access this endpoint, you need additional permissions. Please head over to the Developer Hub app package authentication settings to configure the required permissions. {% /admonition %}

• intercom-pp-cli custom-object-instances create — Create or update a custom object instance
• intercom-pp-cli custom-object-instances delete-by-external-id — Delete a single Custom Object instance using the Intercom defined id.
• intercom-pp-cli custom-object-instances delete-by-id — Delete a single Custom Object instance by external_id.
• intercom-pp-cli custom-object-instances get-by-external-id — Fetch a Custom Object Instance by external_id.
• intercom-pp-cli custom-object-instances get-by-id — Fetch a Custom Object Instance by id.

data-attributes — Everything about your Data Attributes

• intercom-pp-cli data-attributes create — You can create a data attributes for a contact or a company.
• intercom-pp-cli data-attributes lis — You can fetch a list of all data attributes belonging to a workspace for contacts, companies or conversations.
• intercom-pp-cli data-attributes update — You can update a data attribute.

download — Manage download

• intercom-pp-cli download <job_identifier> — When a job has a status of complete, and thus a filled download_url

events — Manage events

• intercom-pp-cli events create-data — You will need an Access Token that has write permissions to send Events.
• intercom-pp-cli events data-summaries — Create event summaries for a user.
• intercom-pp-cli events lis-data — > 🚧 > > Please note that you can only 'list' events that are less than 90 days old.

help-center — Everything about your Help Center

• intercom-pp-cli help-center create-collection — You can create a new collection by making a POST request to https://api.intercom.io/help_center/collections.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center delete-collection — You can delete a single collection by making a DELETE request to https://api.intercom.io/collections/<id>.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center list — You can list all Help Centers by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/help_center/help_centers.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center list-all-collections — You can fetch a list of all collections by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/help_center/collections.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single Help Center by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center retrieve-collection — You can fetch the details of a single collection by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.
• intercom-pp-cli help-center update-collection — You can update the details of a single collection by making a PUT request to https://api.intercom.io/collections/<id>.

intercom-export — Manage intercom export

• intercom-pp-cli intercom-export cancel-data — Cancel content data export
• intercom-pp-cli intercom-export create-data — To create your export job, you need to send a POST request to the export endpoint `https://api.intercom.
• intercom-pp-cli intercom-export get-data — You can view the status of your job by sending a GET request to the URL `https://api.intercom.

internal-articles — Everything about your Internal Articles

• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles create — You can create a new internal article by making a POST request to https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles.
• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles delete — You can delete a single internal article by making a DELETE request to https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/<id>.
• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles list — You can fetch a list of all internal articles by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles.
• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single internal article by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.
• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles search — You can search for internal articles by making a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/search.
• intercom-pp-cli internal-articles update — You can update the details of a single internal article by making a PUT request to `https://api.intercom.

me — Manage me

• intercom-pp-cli me — You can view the currently authorised admin along with the embedded app object (a 'workspace' in legacy terminology).

messages — Everything about your messages

• intercom-pp-cli messages — You can create a message that has been initiated by an admin.

news — Everything about your News

• intercom-pp-cli news create-item — You can create a news item
• intercom-pp-cli news delete-item — You can delete a single news item.
• intercom-pp-cli news list-items — You can fetch a list of all news items
• intercom-pp-cli news list-live-newsfeed-items — You can fetch a list of all news items that are live on a given newsfeed
• intercom-pp-cli news list-newsfeeds — You can fetch a list of all newsfeeds
• intercom-pp-cli news retrieve-item — You can fetch the details of a single news item.
• intercom-pp-cli news retrieve-newsfeed — You can fetch the details of a single newsfeed
• intercom-pp-cli news update-item — Update a news item

notes — Everything about your Notes

• intercom-pp-cli notes <id> — You can fetch the details of a single note.

phone-call-redirects — Manage phone call redirects

• intercom-pp-cli phone-call-redirects — You can use the API to deflect phone calls to the Intercom Messenger.

segments — Everything about your Segments

• intercom-pp-cli segments list — You can fetch a list of all segments.
• intercom-pp-cli segments retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single segment.

subscription-types — Everything about subscription types

• intercom-pp-cli subscription-types — You can list all subscription types. A list of subscription type objects will be returned.

tags — Everything about tags

• intercom-pp-cli tags create — You can use this endpoint to perform the following operations: **1.
• intercom-pp-cli tags delete — You can delete the details of tags that are on the workspace by passing in the id.
• intercom-pp-cli tags find — You can fetch the details of tags that are on the workspace by their id. This will return a tag object.
• intercom-pp-cli tags list — You can fetch a list of all tags for a given workspace.

teams — Everything about your Teams

• intercom-pp-cli teams list — This will return a list of team objects for the App.
• intercom-pp-cli teams retrieve — You can fetch the details of a single team, containing an array of admins that belong to this team.

ticket-states — Everything about your ticket states

• intercom-pp-cli ticket-states — You can get a list of all ticket states for a workspace.

ticket-types — Everything about your ticket types

• intercom-pp-cli ticket-types create — You can create a new ticket type. > 📘 Creating ticket types.
• intercom-pp-cli ticket-types get — You can fetch the details of a single ticket type.
• intercom-pp-cli ticket-types list — You can get a list of all ticket types for a workspace.
• intercom-pp-cli ticket-types update — You can update a ticket type. > 📘 Updating a ticket type.

tickets — Everything about your tickets

• intercom-pp-cli tickets create — You can create a new ticket.
• intercom-pp-cli tickets delete — {% admonition type='warning' name='Irreversible operation' %} Deleting a ticket is permanent and cannot be reversed.
• intercom-pp-cli tickets get — You can fetch the details of a single ticket.
• intercom-pp-cli tickets search — You can search for multiple tickets by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly which ones you want.
• intercom-pp-cli tickets update — You can update a ticket.

visitors — Everything about your Visitors

• intercom-pp-cli visitors convert — You can merge a Visitor to a Contact of role type lead or user. > 📘 What happens upon a visitor being converted?
• intercom-pp-cli visitors retrieve-with-user-id — You can fetch the details of a single visitor.
• intercom-pp-cli visitors update — Sending a PUT request to /visitors will result in an update of an existing Visitor. **Option 1.

Finding the right command

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

intercom-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

Tag every conversation mentioning an outage

intercom-pp-cli conversations incident-tag --mentions "checkout fails" --since 24h --tag incident-2026-05-24 --apply

Search server-side, dry-run by default, --apply fans out tag mutations through the adaptive limiter.

Find slow-response teams this week

intercom-pp-cli conversations sla --group-by team --metric first-response,resolution --since 7d --agent --select team,first_response_p50_minutes,resolution_p90_hours

Local SQL over conversations + parts; --select narrows the nested payload so agents don't burn context.

Pull every help-center article into a git-managed tree

intercom-pp-cli articles pull --to ./articles/

Each article lands as <id>-<slug>.<locale>.md with YAML frontmatter; commit the directory to git, edit locally, then run intercom-pp-cli articles push --from ./articles/ to sync diffs back.

Resolve a contact before triaging

intercom-pp-cli contact 360 mei@example.com --agent --select contact.id,companies,open_conversations,recent_tickets

Joins five entities locally; replaces 4-6 separate API calls and removes the agent's need to template Intercom's nested search predicate.

List conversations updated this week with --select to keep payload small

intercom-pp-cli conversations list --agent --select conversations.id,conversations.state,conversations.assignee.id,conversations.tags.id,conversations.title

Generated endpoint mirror; --select uses dotted paths to walk Intercom's nested envelope so agents don't load 30 KB per conversation.

Auth Setup

Intercom uses Bearer access tokens (PAT-style). Export INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN or run intercom-pp-cli auth set-token "<token>" to save it to your config. The CLI pins the Intercom-Version: 2.13 header on every request. Tokens are workspace-scoped; pick the right region with --region us|eu|au or INTERCOM_REGION.

Run intercom-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:

  intercom-pp-cli admins list --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

• Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success, and --ignore-missing only when a missing delete target 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.

Agent Feedback

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

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

Entries are stored locally at ~/.local/share/intercom-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless INTERCOM_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or INTERCOM_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.

intercom-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
intercom-pp-cli --profile briefing admins list
intercom-pp-cli profile list --json
intercom-pp-cli profile show briefing
intercom-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 intercom-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

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

claude mcp add intercom-pp-mcp -- intercom-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which intercom-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:

   intercom-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

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