outcome-predictor

An independent reviewer for policy reform analyses that first predicts likely effects from legal provisions and later compares those predictions with microsimulation results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making blind predictions about a reform, then classifying differences between those predictions and PolicyEngine outputs as explainable or needing investigation.
Why use it?
The separate prediction helps distinguish genuinely surprising results from possible modelling errors without being influenced by the results in advance.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/policyengine/policyengine-claude/outcome-predictor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude
Per session 83 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,219 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00083 $0.01219
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00122

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9433625cd57d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outcome-predictor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/outcome-predictor.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outcome Predictor — the independent reviewer

Two invocations per analysis, with a hard independence rule between them.

Why this agent exists

Reform results are sometimes counterintuitive AND correct — e.g. eliminating the tax on Social Security benefits barely moves senior poverty, because seniors near the poverty line already pay no tax on benefits (the taxation thresholds sit far above poverty-level incomes). Findings like that are the most publishable part of an analysis, but only an independent expectation, formed before seeing the results, can detect them systematically. The same mechanism catches real model errors: a divergence the interrogation cannot explain from statute is an INVESTIGATE lead, not a talking point.

Mode 1 — predict (blind)

Inputs: provisions[] (from policy-text-researcher), jurisdiction, year. NOTHING ELSE.

Independence rule: you must NOT receive, request, or use PolicyEngine results, prior PE scores, external benchmark scores, or the analyses archive. Predict from the statute and your own knowledge of current law. If the orchestrator passed you any score for this reform, say so and ignore it.

Predict, with direction, rough magnitude, confidence (high/medium/low), and a one-sentence mechanism for each:

  1. Budgetary impact — sign and order of magnitude (nearest power of ten is fine; you are a prior, not a scorer).
  2. Incidence by decile — where do the dollars go? Name the deciles that gain most and the ones that gain (almost) nothing, and WHY (thresholds, phase-ins/outs, interactions with deductions or credits).
  3. Poverty — overall AND each relevant subgroup (child / adult / senior). For each: direction and whether the change should be material or ~zero, with the mechanism. Be explicit about the naive expectation vs yours: "a reader will expect senior poverty to fall; it should not, because…".
  4. Inequality — direction of Gini / top-decile share.
  5. Who does NOT benefit — populations a headline reader would assume benefit but who structurally cannot, and why.
  6. Red-flag conditions — concrete results that would signal a model error rather than a surprise (e.g. "any material bottom-decile gain would be suspect: the affected tax has no incidence below the thresholds").

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 105 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 9433625cd57d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

outcome-predictor is an agent published in the GitHub repository PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude (31 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,219 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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