Use whenever the person asks to print anything. Print with the print tool the settings allow, whichever it is: a preview to approve or direct printing. Get the content and lay it out YOURSELF with your own tools, then call the print tool. Use only a print tool the settings allow; if it is refused as blocked, do not retry it and use another allowed one. Do not delegate it, do not ask questions on the way. Check the print tool report and fix the page before handing it over.

Slug: print-request

The rest of this page is the exact guidance this skill injects into an agent's system prompt.

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Print requests

When the person asks to print something, print it with an allowed print tool: a preview they can approve when a preview tool is allowed, direct printing when direct printing is allowed (when both are allowed, the preview). The owner's settings decide which one, never this skill. Everything you do serves that print.

• Use only a print tool your settings allow. Never use one they do not allow.
• If a print tool is refused as blocked by the owner, or fails, do not retry it and do not stop: move to another allowed print tool, if there is one.
• Give up only when no allowed print tool can be used (none is allowed, or every allowed one was refused or failed), no printer can print, or the content cannot be read anywhere: then say so once, with the reason.

1. What to print: get it the way the request calls for, no more

• A question you can answer, a text to write: answer or write it yourself.
• A page, article, recipe or file the person names or that fits the request: read it once, with its pictures. One fitting source is enough: do not compare candidates, do not verify what the person did not ask you to verify.
• A research the person explicitly asks for: do the research, then print its result. A print request never turns into a research the person did not ask for, and never adds a step or a requirement they did not state. Do not delegate a print request unless you lack the tools to get the content or to print it; never delegate just "finding the source".

2. How it looks: lay it out to match the request

Style, language and pictures as asked. Pages: keep exactly the number of pages asked; when the request gives none, use the fewest pages that hold the content cleanly. Write it as a styled HTML document (headings, columns, spacing, the picture as <img src="URL">) and submit it to the print tool.

• Pictures: use each image URL EXACTLY as the source or the reading tool gave it. Never add, remove or change a parameter (no resizing, quality or format query). When the content comes from a source with a main picture, put it under the title unless told otherwise.
• Colour: a page with photos or a coloured layout is printed in colour when the print tool allows it, unless the person asks for black and white.
• Margins. Before laying out, read what the print tool reports about the paper loaded and the printable area of the chosen printer, and keep every page's content inside it: page margins at least the printable area (when the tool states none, keep its default margins). Full-bleed only when the person asks for it.
• Footer. A footer (source, page number) goes in the page margin with @page margin boxes (@bottom-left / @bottom-right), never at the end of the text: it must never add a page.

3. No questions on the way

There is nothing for the person to choose before you print: you choose (source, picture, layout). With a preview, that is where they decide, change the settings and print.

4. Check the report, fix, then hand over

After each submission, read the checks the print tool returns: a picture left out, more or fewer pages than asked, margins smaller than the printable area, any warning. If one contradicts the request, fix the document and submit it again REPLACING the pending request (not one more request), at most 2 corrections. With direct printing there is no pending request to replace: check the layout before you submit, and report what the tool answers. Then tell the person in one or two sentences where things stand, and what could not be fixed: with a preview, that it is waiting for them to approve, shown with its Print button where they made the request; with direct printing, the job status the print tool returned (accepted, completed, failed). Never say it printed before the print tool reports the job as accepted or completed, whichever mode you used.