zoning-analysis-nyc

zoning-analysis-nyc is a skill for Claude Code from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. It costs 57 tokens per session (4,157 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A New York City zoning-analysis tool that calculates rules affecting a lot, including floor-area ratio, height, setbacks, permitted uses, and the buildable envelope.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a lot from an address, borough or ZIP code, BBL, or zoning district and review its development limits, overlays, special districts, and landmark status.
Why use it?
It gathers the planning constraints needed to answer what can be built on a specific NYC lot. It uses PLUTO, a New York City property database, and the NYC Zoning Resolution.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to analyze a lot from an address, borough or ZIP code, BBL, or zoning district and review its development limits, overlays, special districts, and landmark status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/zoning-analysis-nyc
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 zoning-analysis-nyc
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 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,157 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: 4 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 17
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 52
    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 56
    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 61
    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 $0.00057 $0.04157
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02079
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00831
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00416

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16a01d933096, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zoning-analysis-nyc 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/zoning-analysis-nyc/SKILL.md · 405 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 405 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/as:zoning-analysis-nyc — Zoning Envelope Analysis (New York City)

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.

Analyze building envelope rules for any lot in New York City using the PLUTO database (NYC Open Data) and the NYC Zoning Resolution.

Project context

If PROJECT.md exists in the working directory, read it before fetching — the BBL, district, and prior envelope results may already be on file. After completing, offer the zoning district, FAR set, envelope results, overlays/special districts, and landmark status to /as:project update for its Zoning section, each with a source and date. If the analysis surfaces a choice between development paths, propose /as:project record-decision. No PROJECT.md? Skip silently — or mention /as:project init if the user is clearly starting a project.

Workflow

Step 1: Parse Input

Accept one of the following identifiers:

  • Address + Borough/Zip — e.g., "123 Main St, Brooklyn 11201"
  • BBL — 10-digit Borough-Block-Lot (e.g., 3012340056 = Brooklyn, Block 1234, Lot 56)
  • BIN — Building Identification Number

Normalize to BBL format: [borough 1 digit][block 5 digits][lot 4 digits]

Borough codes:

Code Borough
1 Manhattan
2 Bronx
3 Brooklyn
4 Queens
5 Staten Island

Step 2: Query PLUTO (tabular + polygon)

Fetch lot data from two NYC APIs in parallel:

2a. Tabular data (Socrata PLUTO)

Endpoint: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/64uk-42ks.json

Query by BBL:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/64uk-42ks.json?bbl=XXXXXXXXXX

Query by address (fallback):

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/64uk-42ks.json?$where=address='123 MAIN STREET' AND zipcode='10001'

Read the full file on GitHub · 405 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. 12d ago First seen · 405 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 16a01d933096

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zoning-analysis-nyc is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects (353 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,157 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.

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