PolicyEngine

Household Calc — Development skill for Claude Code

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Calculate benefits, taxes, and net income for a single household under baseline or a reform — the standalone entry for household-level questions.

How to install Household Calc

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/policyengine-policyengine-claude-household-calc/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/policyengine-policyengine-claude-household-calc && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude/HEAD/commands/household-calc.md -o ~/.claude/skills/policyengine-policyengine-claude-household-calc/SKILL.md

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

What Household Calc does

description: Calculate benefits, taxes, and net income for a single household under baseline or a reform — the standalone entry for household-level questions

Household calculation

Answer "what would this specific household get?" questions. Standalone entry for household-level microsimulation — not population-level (`/analyze-policy` handles that).

When to use

"What would a single parent making $35K with two kids get from SNAP + CTC in Texas?"
"How does a married couple filin

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