# IHME GBD agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made IHME GBD playbooks for AI agents: compare locations and subnational units with the IHME GBD connector, development gap analysis for IHME GBD, location disease burden brief from GBD estimates. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use the IHME GBD connector with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/essentials.md): Gets the scope right before pulling Global Burden of Disease estimates, so every figure carries its measure, year and location. It asks you to confirm missing details rather than guessing.
- [Compare locations and subnational units with the IHME GBD connector](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/compare-locations-or-subnational-units.md): Compares several sub-locations within one parent, such as states, provinces or countries in a region, on life expectancy, child mortality or cause burden. It normalises the figures and tests whether differences hold before ranking places.
- [Development gap analysis for IHME GBD](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/development-gap-analysis.md): Checks whether a country's life expectancy or disease burden is higher or lower than its Socio-demographic Index level predicts, and what drives the gap. Asks before changing any saved state.
- [Location disease burden brief from GBD estimates](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/location-disease-burden-brief.md): Builds a sourced fact sheet for one cause in one location, with deaths, DALYs, rates, trend and rank, each figure labelled by measure, year, sex and age. It reads only and does not change any data.
- [Review the attributable burden of a risk factor](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/risk-factor-attributable-burden-review.md): Traces one risk factor, such as smoking or air pollution, to the causes it drives, its exposure level and the burden that could be averted. It keeps causal estimates separate from associations and asks before changing any settings.

## Install

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

```bash
for s in essentials compare-locations-or-subnational-units development-gap-analysis location-disease-burden-brief risk-factor-attributable-burden-review; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/ihme-gbd-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a IHME GBD agent skill?

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

### Do the IHME GBD skills change anything on their own?

5 of the 5 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 IHME GBD.

### 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 IHME GBD; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the IHME GBD MCP server too?

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

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/ihme-gbd.md