USMetrics

USMetrics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielmiessler/LifeOS. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,909 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for updating and analysing 68 United States economic and social indicators from government data services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh the data and review trends over periods ranging from one to ten years.
Why use it?
It brings related measures such as GDP, inflation, employment, housing, trade, and demographics into one recurring analysis process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

About the project

LifeOS is an AI-assisted personal operating system that records a person’s goals, values, context, and current situation to help move them toward a desired future state. It supports work such as building applications, starting businesses, and creative projects. Its catalogue entries extend the system through skills, hooks, agents, and commands.

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 18,899 stars · on GitHub · ourlifeos.ai

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for USMetrics

README.md
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,909 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 5.1 $0.00120 $0.01909
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00955
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00191

Measured 2d ago against content hash 056e61f66105, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

USMetrics 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 3 executable files (Tools/FetchFredSeries.ts, Tools/GenerateAnalysis.ts, Tools/UpdateSubstrateMetrics.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/USMetrics/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customization

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

If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

  1. Send voice notification:

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

    Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **USMetrics** skill to ACTION...
    

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

US Metrics - Economic & Social Indicator Analysis

What It Does

Pulls 68 US economic and social indicators from five government APIs (FRED, EIA, Treasury, BLS, Census) across 10 categories — GDP, Inflation, Employment, Housing, Consumer Finance, Markets, Trade, Government/Fiscal, Demographics, Health — and analyzes them. Two workflows: UpdateData fetches live values into the Substrate dataset; GetCurrentState produces a multi-timeframe (10y/5y/2y/1y) trend overview with cross-metric correlation, pattern detection, and research recommendations.

The Problem

The numbers that tell you how the economy is actually doing are scattered across five federal agencies, each with its own API, its own update cadence, and its own publication lag. Pulling "how is the economy?" together by hand means hitting FRED, EIA, Treasury, BLS, and Census separately, normalizing the results, and lining up trends across different timeframes — slow, error-prone, and easy to present stale or preliminary data as if it were final. This skill collects all 68 indicators into one dataset and reads the trends across four timeframes at once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 198 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 056e61f66105

Subscribe to this mod's changes

USMetrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,899 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,909 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 2026-09-03.

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