Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-pbs
The only machine-readable Pakistani price panel — every urban centre and essential item the Bureau prices weekly, accrued locally because the Bureau itself does not keep the series. Trigger phrases: `pakistan spi`, `weekly sensitive price indicator`, `pakistani food prices by city`, `price of wheat flour in lahore`, `pakistan cpi city prices`, `cost of living pakistan by city`, `use pbs`, `run pbs`.
What it needs
About 12k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/other/pbs/SKILL.md, regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". --> Pakistan Bureau of Statistics — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the pbs-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: pbs-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 1.26.6 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. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics publishes the richest sub-national price data in the country one machine-hostile weekly file at a time, indexes those files in a hand-edited JavaScript array, and deletes its own history: its live index reaches further back than the Internet Archive does, and one monthly annex is already served under two different months so one of them is lost. This CLI turns those scattered releases into one queryable panel and records every gap as a gap. Use spread and drift for questions the source cannot answer at all, coverage and verify to audit what you have, and revisions to catch what the Bureau quietly changed. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-pbs