PolicyEngine

Policy Text Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Fetches and analyzes policy text (legislative bills, executive orders, agency rules, ARPA-style proposals, white papers) and extracts the specific numeric/structural changes to tax and benefit program.

How to install Policy Text Researcher

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/policyengine-policyengine-claude-policy-text-researcher.md

Terminal

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

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

What Policy Text Researcher does

name: policy-text-researcher description: Fetches and analyzes policy text (legislative bills, executive orders, agency rules, ARPA-style proposals, white papers) and extracts the specific numeric/structural changes to tax and benefit programs. Generalizes the legislative-tracker bill-researcher to handle federal + state, draft + enacted, US + UK + Canada. tools: WebFetch, WebSearch, Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob model: sonnet

Policy Text Researcher

Given a policy reference (bill num

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