usfiscaldata

usfiscaldata is a skill for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the U.S. Treasury's free Fiscal Data API, which provides federal debt, spending, revenue, Treasury securities, interest rates, and exchange-rate data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query national debt, Treasury statements, auctions, exchange rates, and other federal financial datasets.
Why use it?
It provides a direct way to retrieve U.S. government financial data without an API key or manual spreadsheet downloads.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to query national debt, Treasury statements, auctions, exchange rates, and other federal financial datasets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/usfiscaldata
About the project

Scientific Agent Skills is a collection of reusable procedures that give AI agents capabilities for scientific research across areas such as biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. It is used by researchers and by people building AI scientist workflows with compatible coding agents. The catalogue contains many of the project's skills and supporting instructions.

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills · 44,220 stars · on GitHub · arxiv.org

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 K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill usfiscaldata
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,012 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 10 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 15
    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 31
    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 $0.00067 $0.02012
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01006
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00201

Measured 8d ago against content hash f48e2b5e8ed2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usfiscaldata 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny", params={
skills/usfiscaldata/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data API

Free, open REST API from the U.S. Department of the Treasury for federal financial data. No API key or registration required.

Base URL: https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service

Browse 54 datasets and 179 data tables via the dataset search. Verify endpoint paths on each dataset's API Quick Guide — paths change over time.

Installation

uv pip install requests pandas

Quick Start

import requests
import pandas as pd

BASE_URL = "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service"

# Get the current national debt (Debt to the Penny)
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny", params={
    "sort": "-record_date",
    "page[size]": 1
})
data = resp.json()["data"][0]
print(f"Total public debt as of {data['record_date']}: ${float(data['tot_pub_debt_out_amt']):,.0f}")
# Get Treasury exchange rates for recent quarters
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/v1/accounting/od/rates_of_exchange", params={
    "fields": "country_currency_desc,exchange_rate,record_date",
    "filter": "record_date:gte:2024-01-01",
    "sort": "-record_date",
    "page[size]": 100
})
df = pd.DataFrame(resp.json()["data"])

Authentication

None required. The API is fully open and free.

Core Parameters

Parameter Example Description
fields= fields=record_date,tot_pub_debt_out_amt Select specific columns
filter= filter=record_date:gte:2024-01-01 Filter records
sort= sort=-record_date Sort (prefix - for descending)
format= format=json Output format: json, csv, xml
page[size]= page[size]=100 Records per page (default 100)
page[number]= page[number]=2 Page index (starts at 1)

Filter operators: lt, lte, gt, gte, eq, in

# Multiple filters separated by comma
"filter=country_currency_desc:in:(Canada-Dollar,Mexico-Peso),record_date:gte:2024-01-01"

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 8d ago First seen · 189 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f48e2b5e8ed2

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usfiscaldata is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (44,220 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,012 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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