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.

A well-structured, highly actionable reference skill with executable code, clear endpoint/parameter tables, and excellent progressive disclosure into verified reference files. Minor conciseness redundancy and a small response-validation gap keep it just short of perfect.

Suggestions

Remove the duplicated 'No API key required' statement from either the intro or the Authentication section to tighten conciseness.

Add a brief response-status check (e.g., 'resp.raise_for_status()') before parsing JSON to strengthen the workflow's validation checkpoint.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is largely lean and assumes competence (parameter tables, endpoint tables, compact code), but the 'No API key' note is repeated across the intro and Authentication section, giving minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	Quick start provides copy-paste ready executable Python, the parameters table gives concrete examples, and dataset endpoints are listed with full paths, covering the common cases fully.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The query workflow is unambiguous and the pagination pattern includes an explicit validation checkpoint ('if total-pages > 1: raise ValueError'), but response status is not validated before .json() parsing and no full feedback loop is documented.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	A clear overview points to eight real one-level-deep reference files, each clearly signaled both inline and in a dedicated Reference Files section, with detail appropriately split out of the main file.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 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.

A strong, specific description that names a clear domain and concrete data targets with an explicit trigger clause. It is comprehensive on completeness and distinctiveness, with only minor gaps in action-verb variety and trigger synonym coverage.

Suggestions

Vary the action verbs (e.g., 'Query, fetch, and aggregate') to reflect multiple concrete capabilities beyond the single 'Query' verb.

Add a few more natural synonyms users might say, such as 'T-bills', 'Treasury bills', or 'Treasuries', to broaden trigger coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The concrete action 'Query the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API' is paired with a comprehensive list of specific data targets ('national debt (Debt to the Penny), Daily Treasury Statements, Monthly Treasury Statements, Treasury securities auctions, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, savings bonds'), but the action verb is singular so it falls just short of the multi-verb anchor 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly states what ('Query the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API for federal financial data') and when via the equivalent 'Use for ...' clause listing concrete trigger data types, matching the anchor for clearly answering both.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Strong natural terms a user would say ('national debt', 'interest rates', 'foreign exchange rates', 'savings bonds', 'Debt to the Penny') with some synonym coverage, but a few common variants ('T-bills', 'Treasury bills', 'Treasuries') are missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data niche with domain-specific triggers (Debt to the Penny, Treasury statements, securities auctions) is highly distinct with minimal overlap risk against other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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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: b2a92ba

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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