# PopHIVE agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made PopHIVE playbooks for AI agents: compare US places or surveillance sources, with the caveats that matter, surveillance situation brief for a US state or nation. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use PopHIVE for US public-health questions](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/pophive/skills/essentials.md): Guides an AI assistant through PopHIVE's read-only US surveillance tools, choosing the right verdict tool, reading the evidence envelope and keeping answers within aggregate-data limits. It never changes data and gives no clinical advice.
- [Compare US places or surveillance sources, with the caveats that matter](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/pophive/skills/geographic-comparison-with-caveats.md): Compares one disease across US states, counties or sources, reads rankings and correlations with their caveats, and states how confident the conclusion is. It is read-only and does not change any data.
- [Surveillance situation brief for a US state or nation](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/pophive/skills/surveillance-situation-brief.md): Builds a cross-disease brief for one US state or the nation from PopHIVE, ranking what is elevated, rising, or stale, confirming the top items, and stating what the data cannot yet say. Read-only, and it never gives clinical advice.

## Install

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

```bash
for s in essentials geographic-comparison-with-caveats surveillance-situation-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/pophive-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/pophive/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a PopHIVE agent skill?

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

### Do the PopHIVE 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 PopHIVE.

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

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

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

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