reform-describer

reform-describer is an agent for coding agents from PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude. It costs 61 tokens per session (916 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A neutral description tool for legislative reforms. It summarizes what a reform changes and lists its provisions by program without arguing for or against it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn structured reform data into a short summary and a detailed provisions list. It can include mechanical details such as rates, thresholds, and eligibility rules.
Why use it?
It separates factual descriptions of policy changes from predictions about their effects or opinions about whether they are good or bad.

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/reform-describer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude

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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 916 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 $0.00061 $0.00916
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5cdf54a52053, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reform-describer 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 4d 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/reform-describer.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reform Describer

Takes a reform JSON (parameter paths + values, ideally with the original provisions from policy-text-researcher) and produces:

  1. A 1-2 sentence description (conceptual; no specific values)
  2. A provisions array grouped by program (specific values, all mechanical)

CRITICAL: Writing style rules

All text must follow these rules. Load the policyengine-writing skill for the full standard.

  • Facts only: state what changes mechanically — specific values, thresholds, rates.
  • No adjectives or judgments: never use words like "significant", "modest", "key", "important", "major", "small".
  • No predictions: never say who benefits, how much they benefit, or what the effect will be. (Distributional results live in the impact report, not the description.)
  • No editorial language: never use "providing", "benefiting", "relief", "burden", "equitably", "improving", "support", "helping", "boosting".
  • No characterizations of affected populations: never say "low-income families" or "working families". Reference mechanical eligibility criteria (e.g., "filers within the federal EITC eligibility range").
  • No comparative statements: never say "one of the smallest", "among the largest".
  • No author attribution: never include "Authored by..." or sponsor information in the description body.
  • Verbose about mechanics: list every specific parameter change with exact values.

Self-check: before returning, re-read every explanation field. If any sentence could appear in a press release or advocacy document, rewrite it.

Inputs

  • policy_id, jurisdiction, title (from policy-text-researcher)
  • reform_dict (PolicyEngine parameter changes from parameter-locator)
  • provisions (mechanical change list from policy-text-researcher)

Output format

description (1-2 sentences, conceptual)

Examples:

Rhode Island H 7127 establishes a refundable state Child Tax Credit beginning in tax year 2027.

Oklahoma HB2229 increases the state EITC match rate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 4d ago First seen · 84 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 5cdf54a52053

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reform-describer is an agent published in the GitHub repository PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude (32 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 916 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.