LocalIntelligence

A daily local-news and civic-information collector for any city in the United States. It gathers information about permits, crime, businesses, officials, laws, elections, arrests, and local news.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor changes and events in a US city, such as construction permits, new businesses, legislation, elections, or local reporting.
Why use it?
Relevant city information is spread across many sources and is easy to miss when checked separately. This puts the listed categories into one local digest.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/localintelligence
Any agent
npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill localintelligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,213 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00126 $0.03213
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00321

Measured 2d ago against content hash a7bd4f7dc670, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

LocalIntelligence scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 14 executable files (Tools/Backfill.ts, Tools/ClaudeFill.ts, Tools/FetchArrests.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
LifeOS/install/skills/LocalIntelligence/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LocalIntelligence

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/LocalIntelligence/

If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, optional source-list overrides, or per-source API keys (e.g., OpenStates, Google News topic ID). These override defaults. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults — universal sources only.

sources.json in the same directory is the deterministic per-city source list (RSS feeds, local JSON APIs) consumed by Tools/UserSources.ts on every refresh — see Tools/UserSources.help.md for the schema. City-specific URLs belong there, never in this skill.

Voice Notification

When executing a workflow, do BOTH:

  1. Send voice notification:

    curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"message": "Running WORKFLOWNAME in LocalIntelligence"}' \
      > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    
  2. Output text notification:

    Running **WorkflowName** in **LocalIntelligence**...
    

What It Does

LocalIntelligence is a civic intelligence aggregator for any US city. It pulls eight categories of local data — construction permits, crime, new businesses, public officials, legislation, elections, arrests, and local news — into a single daily JSON digest, keyed off the city in the principal's identity file and served to the Pulse LOCAL tab. Crime delegates to the dedicated crime-stats skill.

The Problem

What's actually happening where you live is scattered across a dozen sites that nobody checks — the city's permit portal, the council agenda system, the sheriff's blotter, a local paper, the elections office. No single feed tells you a new ordinance is up for a vote, a building is going up down the street, or an election is coming. Most "local news" tools either cover one city, hardcode endpoints that break, or paywall the good stories. This skill stays generic across every US city, resolves the target city at runtime, and degrades gracefully when a source has no data instead of blanking the whole digest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 2d ago First seen · 195 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A a7bd4f7dc670

Subscribe to this mod's changes

LocalIntelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,798 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 3,213 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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