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.
npx skills add iblai/government-agents --skill congress-govgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iblai/government-agentsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/iblai/government-agents/congress-gov)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/iblai/government-agents/congress-gov"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iblai/government-agents/congress-gov/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/iblai/government-agents/congress-gov"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iblai/government-agents/congress-gov.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.00599 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00300 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00120 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00060 |
Grade A, and why
congress-gov 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Congress.gov API
What it is
The Congress.gov API is the official public data interface provided by the Library of Congress for U.S. legislative data. It covers all bills, resolutions, amendments, committee activity, Congressional Record entries, and member information from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present. Legislative affairs agents rely on it as the authoritative source for federal bill tracking and legislative analysis.
When to use this skill
- Searching for bills by keyword, subject area, sponsor, or Congress session
- Retrieving full bill text, summary, and all legislative actions for a specific bill number
- Checking committee referrals, hearing schedules, and markup results
- Monitoring floor actions, recorded votes, and amendment activity
- Tracking the sponsorship and co-sponsorship patterns for a piece of legislation
Credentials
This skill authenticates using variables from the OpenClaw daemon env file ~/.openclaw/.env (template: .env.example). Required variables:
CONGRESS_GOV_API_KEY- API key obtained from the Congress.gov API registration portal (api.congress.gov)
Key operations
GET /v3/bill— search bills with filters for Congress, bill type, offset/limit, and sort orderGET /v3/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}— retrieve full bill record including status and summaryGET /v3/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}/text— list available text versions with format URLsGET /v3/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}/actions— retrieve chronological action historyGET /v3/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}/cosponsors— list co-sponsors with sponsorship dateGET /v3/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}/committees— show committee referrals and activityGET /v3/member/{bioguideId}— retrieve member profile and sponsored legislation list
Notes
- API key is free; register at
api.congress.govwith a.govor organizational email. - Rate limit: 5,000 requests/hour per API key.
- Full bill text is linked via URL in the text endpoint; retrieve the document directly from the provided CDN URL (no key needed for the text file itself).
- Bill status descriptions (e.g., "Became Law") are human-readable strings, not machine codes; parse with care in automated pipelines.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 37 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 92c883172f74
congress-gov is a skill published in the GitHub repository iblai/government-agents (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 599 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 2026-08-31.
Other skills, from other repositories
tax-invoice
The fields a Thai full-form tax invoice (ใบกำกับภาษีแบบเต็มรูป) must legally carry, and how its VAT is shown. Use when the brief asks for ใบกำกับภาษี, a tax invoice, or an invoice that a Thai buyer will claim input VAT against.
aetox-contract-standards
ร่างสัญญาภาษาอังกฤษจากแบบมาตรฐานที่ใช้ฟรีได้ NDA, SLA, ข้อตกลงเรื่อง AI, สัญญาพาร์ตเนอร์ช่วงพัฒนา ใช้ตอนต้องส่งสัญญาให้คู่ค้าต่างประเทศ หรือตรวจฉบับที่เขาส่งมา.
counsel
Senior Contract Administrator & FIDIC / EPC contract specialist for oil, gas, refining, petrochemical, polymer, and upstream capital works. Use whenever the user mentions contract drafting, contract administration, FIDIC (Red Book / Yellow Book / Silver Book / Pink Book / Gold Book / Emerald Book / White Book), Pearl…
steward
Senior HSE, ESG, and Decarbonisation Specialist for oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, polymer, upstream, and energy projects. Use whenever the user mentions HSE management system (HSE-MS), ISO 14001 environmental management, ISO 45001 occupational health & safety, OHSAS 18001, ISO 50001 energy management, IOGP…
specification-writing
A workflow for writing a complete patent specification from patent claims and an invention disclosure. A patent specification is the detailed description that explains and supports what the claims seek to protect.
invention-structuring
A writing workflow that turns a rough invention idea into a structured invention disclosure, a document used to explain a possible patent. It organizes the technical problem, solution, and advantages.