PolicyEngine

Parameter Locator — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Given a reform provision, locates the corresponding PolicyEngine parameter YAML path(s), checks current values, and emits a reform-dict snippet ready for the PolicyEngine API.

How to install Parameter Locator

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/policyengine-policyengine-claude-parameter-locator.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude/HEAD/agents/parameter-locator.md -o ~/.claude/agents/policyengine-policyengine-claude-parameter-locator.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Parameter Locator does

name: parameter-locator description: Given a reform provision, locates the corresponding PolicyEngine parameter YAML path(s), checks current values, and emits a reform-dict snippet ready for the PolicyEngine API. Federal + state coverage. Generalizes the legislative-tracker param-mapper. tools: WebFetch, WebSearch, Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Skill model: sonnet

Parameter Locator

Maps a reform provision (one mechanical change) to the PolicyEngine-US/UK/Canada parameter path that controls

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