Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-policy-intel
Use Federal Register and Regulations.gov public data for rulemaking search, rules/proposed rules, dockets, public comments, and open comment deadlines. Trigger phrases: Federal Register search, regulations docket, public comments, comment deadline, policy monitoring, policy-intel-pp-cli.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific commands and workflows for accessing and utilizing Federal Register and Regulations.gov data that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires policy-intel-pp-cli installed locally. Requires api.data.gov account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Policy Intel — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the policy-intel-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: 2. Verify: policy-intel-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When To Use Use policy-intel-pp-cli when an agent needs source-backed US federal rulemaking or policy-monitoring context. Search Federal Register documents for a topic. Find rules and proposed rules without memorizing Federal Register type codes. Fetch a Regulations.gov docket by ID. List public comments for a docket. Find open comment deadlines for a topic or agency. When Not To Use Do not use it for legal advice, compliance certification, lobbying, or comment submission. Do not treat missing or sparse data as proof that a rule, docket, or comment does not exist. Do not use DEMOKEY for polling or production monitoring. Setup Federal Register commands work without credentials. For Regulations.gov, set a real api.data.gov key when you have one: If the variable is missing, the CLI uses DEMOKEY for small read-only smoke-test calls. If Regulations.gov returns 429 OVERRATELIMIT, wait before retrying or set POLICYINTELREGULATIONSAPIKEY to a real api.data.gov key. Do not build polling jobs on DEMOKEY. Recipes Search Federal Register Use this for keyless source-backed Federal Register search results. Rules And Proposed Rules Use this when the agent needs rulemaking documents rather than all Federal Register document types. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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