Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-government-data
Find California and U.S. open datasets and SEC EDGAR filings with clear provenance. Trigger phrases: `search SEC filings`, `find California water datasets`, `search federal open data`, `download a government dataset`, `use government-data`, `run government-data`.
What it needs
About 11k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Government Data — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the government-data-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: 2. Verify: government-data-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 1.26.10 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: 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. Search either public-data catalog or both, inspect metadata and download selected resources. Direct EDGAR commands search filings and retrieve company submissions and financial facts; local snapshot tools support repeatable catalog research. When to Use This CLI Use for repeatable discovery of California and U.S. catalog datasets, metadata inspection and explicitly selected downloads. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use for publishing, modifying or deleting government catalog records. Do not assume catalog metadata is the underlying measurement data or a full copy of either catalog. Unique Capabilities Compare catalogs overlap — Find exact resource URLs shared across saved catalog records. Find exact resource URLs shared across saved catalog records. intake audit — List missing metadata fields before selecting resources. List missing metadata fields before selecting resources. coverage — Compare declared formats within a saved topic scope. Compare declared formats within a saved topic scope. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/government-data