Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill foia-request-writergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/foia-request-writer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/foia-request-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/foia-request-writer/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/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/foia-request-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/foia-request-writer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high
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 →
- high Memory Poisoning · line 44 Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
- low Excessive Agency · line 317 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
- low Excessive Agency · line 380 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 | $0.00040 | $0.08962 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.04481 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.01792 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00896 |
Grade A, and why
foia-request-writer 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 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.
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 — 483 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
FOIA & Public Records Request Writer
What This Skill Does
Drafts formal, legally complete public records requests to U.S. federal and state government agencies. Also drafts administrative appeal letters when requests are denied, and analyzes redactions to identify improperly applied exemptions with specific challenge strategies.
When To Use This Skill
- You need government records, contracts, communications, or internal reports for a story — at the federal or state level
- You are beginning an investigation and want to establish a paper trail through official channels
- You need a request that maximizes the chance of a full, timely response and minimizes the chance of blanket denial
- You want to request a fee waiver as a journalist or news organization
- Your federal or state records request has been denied or heavily redacted and you need to draft an administrative appeal
- You received redacted documents and want to identify which exemptions are likely misapplied and how to challenge them
- You need to file parallel requests to federal and state agencies for the same investigation
What You Need To Provide
For a new request (federal or state)
Required: The name of the agency (federal or state); a description of the records you want (dates, subjects, document types); your name and contact information; your stated purpose as a journalist; the state (if filing a state-level request) Optional: The specific FOIA or public records office address; any known document numbers, case IDs, or reference numbers; the name of the news organization; a deadline tied to publication; specific officials or offices whose records you want
For an appeal
Required: The original request (date and tracking number); the denial or adverse determination (date, exemptions cited, name of the FOIA officer who issued it); a brief explanation of why you believe the denial is improper Optional: Any evidence that the records exist (news reports, other agency disclosures, congressional references); whether you want to request mediation through OGIS
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 483 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A b8cd45122ce1
foia-request-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 8,962 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 2026-09-04.
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