fiscal-briefing
Public finances briefing. Supports UK, US, and Australia. Produces a single compact briefing on borrowing, debt, receipts, spending, and fiscal rules. Optional debt sustainability analysis via the debtkit R package. User-selectable sub-components and multi-format export.
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill fiscal-briefing --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
**Only stop to ask the user when:** the country is ambiguous or a non-standard fiscal indicator is requested. **Never stop to ask about:** data sources (use official sources), section selection, fiscal rule definitions, or output filename. <!-- preamble: update check --> Before starting, run this silently. If it outputs UPDATE_AVAILABLE, tell the user: "A new version of econstack is available. Run
What does the fiscal-briefing skill do?
Public finances briefing. Supports UK, US, and Australia. Produces a single compact briefing on borrowing, debt, receipts, spending, and fiscal rules. Optional debt sustainability analysis via the debtkit R package. User-selectable sub-components and multi-format export.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill fiscal-briefing --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.