nyc-bsa

nyc-bsa is a skill for Claude Code from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. It costs 40 tokens per session (871 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup tool for New York City Board of Standards and Appeals records, including zoning variances, special permits, and appeals for a property.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research zoning relief for an NYC property using its address, tax lot identifier (BBL), or building identifier (BIN).
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a property has received exceptions to the zoning rules that normally apply. This fills a gap left by checking only basic zoning controls.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the as plugin — 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research zoning relief for an NYC property using its address, tax lot identifier (BBL), or building identifier (BIN).

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/nyc-bsa
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill nyc-bsa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install as, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 871 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 36
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 41
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 57
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00871
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00087

Measured 12d ago against content hash d1afe0e0711f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nyc-bsa 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 12d 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.

skills/nyc-bsa/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/as:nyc-bsa — BSA Variances & Special Permits

Harness note: use /as:<skill> on Claude Code and $<skill> on Codex. Resolve <skill-root> as the directory containing this loaded SKILL.md and <plugin-root> as the plugin root that contains skills/, and use equivalent native tools when host tool names differ.

Look up Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) applications, variances, and special permits for any NYC property. Records available from 1998 to present. No API key required.

Usage

/as:nyc-bsa 120 Broadway, Manhattan
/as:nyc-bsa 1000770001          (BBL)
/as:nyc-bsa 1001389             (BIN)

Steps 1–2: Parse Input & Resolve BBL

Read ../nyc-property-report/pluto-resolution.md (shared by all 7 NYC due-diligence skills) and follow it: parse the input (address, BBL, or BIN) and resolve via PLUTO. BSA queries key on BBL; BIN resolution is only needed when the user's input was a BIN.

Step 3: Query BSA Applications

Dataset IDs and field names are canonical in ../nyc-property-report/socrata-reference.md — on any disagreement, the reference wins.

Query by BBL first:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/yvxd-uipr.json?$where=bbl='{BBL}'&$order=date DESC

If no results, try address fallback:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/yvxd-uipr.json?$where=upper(street_name) LIKE '%{STREET}%' AND borough='{BOROUGH}'&$order=date DESC

Key fields: application, section, status, date, street_number, street_name, bbl, borough, decisions_url, project_description

Step 4: Print Results

## BSA Variances & Special Permits — {Address}

| Application # | Section | Status | Date | Description | Decisions |
|---------------|---------|--------|------|-------------|-----------|
| {application} | {section} | {status} | YYYY-MM-DD | {project_description} | {decisions_url} |

**Note:** Approved variances remain with the land. Check if conditions affect proposed work.

Source: [BSA Applications](https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/BSA-Applications-Status/yvxd-uipr)

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 79 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d1afe0e0711f

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nyc-bsa is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects (353 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 871 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.

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