policyengine/policyengine-claude
23 skills
$npx skills add policyengine/policyengine-claudeSkillInstalls
encode-policy-v2Use when the user invokes $encode-policy-v2 or asks Codex or Claude Code to implement a new PolicyEngine-US state benefit program or a new structural program component from official rules. Covers exisfix-prUse when the user invokes $fix-pr or asks Codex or Claude Code to apply fixes to a PolicyEngine PR based on $review-program findings, GitHub review comments, CI failures, or local review reports.policyengineALWAYS load this skill before writing any Python that computes taxes, benefits, or policy impacts with PolicyEngine — household calculations, microsimulation, reform scoring, poverty or distributionalpolicyengine-apiLoad when consuming or developing the PolicyEngine REST APIs — the v1 Flask API at api.policyengine.org (production today) or the v2 alpha microservices in policyengine-api-v2. Covers the v1 endpoint policyengine-appLoad when developing policyengine-app-v2 — the site served at policyengine.org. Covers the bun/turbo monorepo, the Next.js 15 App Router host in website/, the legacy Vite SPA in app/ being migrated, upolicyengine-calibration-diagnosticsSensitivity registry for PolicyEngine microsim results — maps {program x deviation signature} to the calibration target or imputed variable most likely driving a mismatch, and reads the live per-targepolicyengine-canadaHow to compute Canadian household tax/benefit outcomes with PolicyEngine, and the hard limits. Load when a task involves Canadian taxes or benefits (CCB, GST/HST credit, CWB, OAS, provincial tax) at tpolicyengine-contentGenerate branded social assets from a PolicyEngine blog post or announcement — 1200x630 social images and platform-optimized post copy for LinkedIn/X, localized for UK/US audiences. Triggers: "make a policyengine-dataLoad for PolicyEngine's data layer — how the microdata behind population microsimulations is built, calibrated, versioned, and named. Covers the current Populace stack (Frame kernel, populace-fit condpolicyengine-designLoad when styling any PolicyEngine frontend — choosing colors, fonts, spacing, chart colors, or consuming @policyengine/ui-kit. Covers the two-import globals.css, the three-layer theme.css (@theme vs policyengine-github-agentWorking with the PolicyEngine GitHub agent bot on issues and PRs — how it is invoked and the hard rule that keeps it from looping. Load before replying to, or posting as, the bot. Triggers: "@policyenpolicyengine-healthcareUS healthcare domain knowledge (Medicaid, ACA premium tax credit, CHIP, Medicare) for analysts using the policyengine package. Load for: why ACA PTC and Medicaid changes show $0 in household_net_incompolicyengine-model-developmentLoad when editing a PolicyEngine country model repo (policyengine-us, policyengine-uk, policyengine-canada) — adding or changing variables, parameters, YAML tests, or contributed reforms. This is the policyengine-plugin-maintenanceMaintaining the policyengine-skills source repo and its generated policyengine-claude wrapper — adding or editing skills, bundles, and the Claude/Codex targets, and keeping the verification harness grpolicyengine-prior-scoresCurated anchor list of PolicyEngine's previously-published scored reforms, plus the map of the real prior-scores infrastructure in this repo (presets, the scorekeepers registry, the /prior-scores commpolicyengine-research-lookupFind and cite PolicyEngine's published blog posts and research articles as evidence or proof points — for talks, pitches, grant narratives, and "has PolicyEngine written about X?" Triggers: "find a blpolicyengine-standardsPolicyEngine coding standards, environment setup, formatters, changelog, and CI requirements across every repo — what makes a PR pass and merge cleanly. Covers uv + .venv, ruff, bun, towncrier changelpolicyengine-toolsLoad when building a standalone PolicyEngine interactive tool, calculator, or dashboard that deploys to Vercel and embeds into policyengine.org as a Next.js multizone. Covers the required stack (Next policyengine-ukLoad before writing PolicyEngine-UK code — UK household calculations, income tax (incl. Scottish and Welsh variations), National Insurance, Universal Credit and other benefits, poverty and reform analpolicyengine-usUS tax-benefit domain knowledge for analysts computing household or population impacts with the policyengine package (pe.us). Load for: which entity a US program attaches to (tax_unit vs spm_unit vs ppolicyengine-user-guideUsing the PolicyEngine web app (policyengine.org) to analyze how tax and benefit reforms affect a household or the whole population — the household calculator, the policy editor, and society-wide impapolicyengine-writingPolicyEngine writing style for any public-facing prose — blog posts, research reports, documentation, PR descriptions, social copy, READMEs. Enforces active voice, quantitative precision, sentence-casreview-programALWAYS LOAD THIS SKILL for PolicyEngine PR reviews, including when the user invokes $review-program or Codex /review on a PolicyEngine PR. Performs read-only code validation, source-reference checks,