usfiscaldata

Query the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API for federal financial data. No API key required. Use for national debt (Debt to the Penny), Daily Treasury Statements, Monthly Treasury Statements, Treasury securities auctions, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, savings bonds, or U.S. government revenue and spending statistics.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured and highly actionable: executable code, parameter reference, and a clean one-level-deep reference layout. The only slight inefficiency is minor redundancy between the intro and the Authentication section.

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Fold the "Authentication: None required" note into the opening paragraph to remove the small redundancy with the intro's "No API key or registration required." statement.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is efficient — quick-start code, parameter tables, and brief notes assume Claude's competence. Minor redundancy (the "Authentication: None required" section restates "open and free" already in the intro) keeps it just below the leanest anchor.	4 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste-ready Python with real endpoints and params, a parameter table with examples, the response envelope documented, and a guarded single-page pattern with a pointer to the fetch_all helper cover the common cases fully.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	This is a simple, single-purpose API-query skill with no destructive or batch operations, so the simple-skill exception applies; the "Common Patterns" section sequences checks (verify total-pages, raise on multi-page, delegate to fetch_all) with an explicit validation guard.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a concise overview with a clearly signaled "Reference Files" section linking one-level-deep into real, verified files (api-basics, parameters, datasets-*, response-format, examples); content is appropriately split and easy to navigate.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: it answers both what and when explicitly, packs in natural trigger terms with synonyms, and carves out a distinct niche. The only minor gap is having a single action verb rather than multiple distinct concrete actions.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the concrete action ("Query the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API") and enumerates many specific data subjects (Debt to the Penny, Daily/Monthly Treasury Statements, auctions, interest rates, exchange rates, savings bonds), but lists only one action verb rather than several distinct concrete actions, placing it just below the comprehensive anchor.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly states both what ("Query the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API for federal financial data") and when ("Use for national debt ... or U.S. government revenue and spending statistics"), with concrete trigger phrases matching the 5-anchor example.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural-language coverage with terms users actually say ("national debt", "Debt to the Penny", "Treasury", "interest rates", "foreign exchange rates", "savings bonds", "revenue and spending statistics") plus synonyms and specific named reports.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	A clear, narrow niche (the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API) with distinct dataset-specific triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Path: skills/usfiscaldata/SKILL.md
Commit: 1e5eeff

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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