# Candid agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Candid playbooks for AI agents: find funders and nonprofits that match your cause and place, write a sourced sector briefing with Candid. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Using the Candid connector in Claude](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid/skills/essentials.md): Explains how to scope, search and cite nonprofit and foundation data from Candid, with clear handling of seals, filters, beta limits and empty results. It never presents a transparency seal as a quality rating.
- [Find funders and nonprofits that match your cause and place](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid/skills/funder-discovery.md): Builds a checked shortlist of foundations or nonprofits for a cause and geography, narrowing with classification terms and confirming each candidate's transparency seal and profile before recommending it. It asks for your criteria first and never contacts or saves anything without your approval.
- [Write a sourced sector briefing with Candid](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid/skills/sector-research-brief.md): Searches Candid's knowledge resources on a philanthropy or nonprofit topic and writes a dated briefing that separates what the sources say from what is inferred. It only reads and does not share or post anything without asking.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Candid at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials funder-discovery sector-research-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/candid-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Candid agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Candid skill describes one job, which Candid tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the Candid skills change anything on their own?

3 of the 3 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Candid.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Candid; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Candid MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Candid MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Candid MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/candid.md