brazil-records-requests

brazil-records-requests is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to requesting public records from Brazilian government bodies under Brazil's Access to Information Law, known as LAI. It covers the Fala.BR and e-SIC request systems and the available appeal process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the right Brazilian authority, draft and file records requests, track responses, and prepare appeals through the four-level review process.
Why use it?
It helps turn an information need into a request addressed to the agency most likely to hold the records. It also helps diagnose denials and decide whether to appeal or submit a revised request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the journalism-core plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose the right Brazilian authority, draft and file records requests, track responses, and prepare appeals through the four-level review process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/brazil-records-requests
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill brazil-records-requests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install journalism-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,851 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
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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 $0.00041 $0.03851
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01925
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00385

Measured 12d ago against content hash 44e48e6ed182, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brazil-records-requests 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.

journalism-core/skills/brazil-records-requests/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brazilian public records requests (LAI)

Brazil's Access to Information Law, Lei 12.527/2011, universally called the LAI, is one of the stronger transparency statutes in Latin America and one of the most under-used by reporters. Most denials are not legal defeats. They are drafting failures that a differently worded request would have avoided.

This skill covers the full cycle: choosing the body, drafting, filing, tracking, and the four-level appeal chain.

When to use

  • Drafting a request to any Brazilian government body
  • Deciding which body and which portal actually holds the records
  • Diagnosing a denial and deciding whether to appeal or refile
  • Writing an appeal at any of the four levels
  • Planning the timeline of an investigation that depends on records
  • Training reporters on LAI practice

Do not use for

  • US records requests, use foia-requests
  • Court case data, which in Brazil is mostly public through other channels (DataJud, e-SAJ, PJe) and rarely needs a records request
  • Data already published under transparência ativa (see "Check first" below)

Language

Respond in the language the reporter writes in. Draft anything addressed to a Brazilian public body — the request itself, appeals, follow-ups — in Portuguese, whatever language the conversation is in.

Portuguese is not a validity requirement: LAI art. 10 and Decree 7.724/2012 art. 12 require the requester's identification and a description of the information, and neither mandates a language or authorizes denial for using another one. It is a practical one. The clerk reading the request works in Portuguese, and a request that is not understood gets bounced as generic under Decree 7.724, art. 13, I — which costs the full 20 days and a refile. Where the receiving body publishes its own filing rules, check them; subnational practice varies.

Check first: is a request even necessary?

Art. 8 of the LAI obliges agencies to publish core categories of information on their own initiative. Filing for something already public wastes 20 days and signals inexperience to the agency.

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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 · 326 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 44e48e6ed182

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brazil-records-requests is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (391 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,851 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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