text-to-reform

text-to-reform is a command for Claude Code from PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude. It costs 31 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns a bill, web link, preset, or plain-language policy description into a checked reform dictionary. A reform dictionary is structured data describing the policy changes that a model can use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate US, state, or UK proposals into baseline and proposed values, then review the validated reform data before submitting it for scoring.
Why use it?
It identifies which policy parameters a proposal changes and whether PolicyEngine can represent them, without running the impact simulation.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 622 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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7d60f0f49a2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-to-reform 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 6d 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.

commands/text-to-reform.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Text to reform-dict

Standalone entry for bill → reform-dict translation. Runs the first two stages of /analyze-policy (understand + classify) and stops before the microsim.

When to use

  • "I have a bill (or link, or description) — what parameters does it touch?"
  • "Would this even be modelable in PolicyEngine, before I invest in scoring it?"
  • "Can I get a validated reform-dict I can then submit to api.policyengine.org myself?"

Do NOT use if you want the impact numbers — that's /analyze-policy end-to-end.

Arguments

Same argument shape as /analyze-policy:

  • State + bill number: UT SB60, RI H7127
  • Federal bill: US HR1234, US S5678
  • URL: a bill / proposal / order URL
  • Description: "ARPA-style federal CTC expansion: $3,600 ages 0-5, $3,000 ages 6-17, fully refundable"
  • Preset: preset:<name> — load from presets/reforms/<name>.yaml

Flags:

  • --country {us|uk|ca} (default us)

What this command does

  1. policy-text-researcher fetches the bill/URL/description and extracts structured provisions with baseline_value / reform_value pairs.
  2. parameter-locator (per provision, in parallel) maps each provision to PolicyEngine YAML paths. Runs the 5 pre-flight checks: master existence → deployed API existence → date coverage → formula liveness → reform-family toggles → per-year row coverage.
  3. reform-classifier aggregates the per-provision verdicts and returns one of:
    • parametric — emits a full reform-dict + confidence
    • deployed-model-lag — parameter exists on master but not yet on deployed API; includes fallback advice
    • structural — needs model extension; emits parameter family + formula edit estimate
    • not-possible — outside PE's scope

Output

The final reform-dict (JSON) ready to submit to POST /{country}/policy on the PE API. Plus the pre-flight check log so the analyst can see what was verified.

If the verdict is structural or not-possible, the output is the classification rationale rather than a reform-dict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7d60f0f49a2f

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text-to-reform is a command published in the GitHub repository PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude (32 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 622 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.