FOIA Request Creator is an agent skill for turning vague suspicions, public-records ideas, and partially drafted requests into focused, processable FOIA or public-records request candidates.
The skill is designed for evidence-first public-records work:
- map likely agencies, components, custodians, and record systems
- search public sources before drafting
- distinguish facts, leads, hypotheses, and uncertainty
- identify existing records and prior releases
- synthesize the strongest request theories
- draft polished, bounded request text that asks for records rather than answers
SKILL.md- the skill instructionsdocs/guidance.md- FOIA drafting and fulfillment guidance used by the skillagents/openai.yaml- optional agent metadata
Install or copy this folder into a skills directory supported by your agent runtime. The skill expects docs/guidance.md to remain next to SKILL.md inside this repository or skill bundle.
Example prompt:
Use the FOIA Request Creator skill to investigate this lead and draft a strong FOIA request: [describe the suspicion or records you want].
This skill is for research and drafting. It instructs agents not to submit requests, create accounts, contact people, upload files, make purchases, post publicly, or make external commitments without separate explicit approval.
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