Agent skill

Permit Navigator

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the…

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Install Permit Navigator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill permit-navigator -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills permit-navigator --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/permit-navigator .claude/skills/permit-navigator && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
permit-navigator
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
667 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the…

  • Works in 5 steps: Classify the project — it determines the… → List the likely permits, honestly… → Order by dependency. Many permits gate… → …
  • Someone says do I need a permit for this
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Permit Navigator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the permit later. Use when someone says 'do I need a permit for this', 'what permits for my renovation/business/event', 'help me apply for a permit', or 'the council flagged my project'. Produces a permit checklist with the likely permits, their sequence and dependencies, and the official offices to confirm each. Not…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone says do I need a permit for this
  • What permits for my renovation/business/event
  • Help me apply for a permit
  • The council flagged my project

Example prompts

  • “t build first and discover the permit later. Use when someone says”
  • “what permits for my renovation/business/event”
  • “help me apply for a permit”
  • “/permit-navigator”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Classify the project — it determines the permit family. Renovation vs new
  2. List the likely permits, honestly hedged. For the category, name the permits
  3. Order by dependency. Many permits gate each other: zoning/planning approval
  4. Flag the long poles. Public-notice periods, historic/heritage review,
  5. Route to the authority for the real answer. The permit office / planning

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Permit Navigator loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 146 tokens; SKILL.md has 667 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~146
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 667 words, ~1,492 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/permit-navigator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
permit-navigator
description
Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the permit later. Use when someone says 'do I need a permit for this', 'what permits for my renovation/business/event', 'help me apply for a permit', or 'the council flagged my project'. Produces a permit checklist with the likely permits, their sequence and dependencies, and the official offices to confirm each. Not legal/code advice — it orients and routes to the authority.

Permit Navigator Skill

Permits are where good projects hit a wall: people renovate, then get a stop-work order; open a business, then find they were operating unlicensed; plan an event, then learn the road-closure permit needed 90 days' notice. The rules are hyper-local (city, county, sometimes your specific zone) and this skill will not pretend to know your jurisdiction's code — its job is to tell you which kinds of permits a project like yours usually needs, the order they go in (some can't start until others are issued), and exactly which office to call to confirm, so you sequence the paperwork before the work.

What This Skill Produces

  • A permit checklist: the permits a project like this typically needs, each marked likely required / maybe / probably not — to confirm, not to rely on
  • The sequence and dependencies: what must be approved before what (zoning before building, building before occupancy), so you don't apply out of order
  • The who-to-ask map: which office/department owns each permit and the question to ask them ("does a project like X need Y here?")
  • A timeline reality check: which permits have long lead times or public-notice periods, so the project plan accounts for them instead of being ambushed

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The project: what, where (city/region — rules are local), and scale
  • Type: building/renovation, opening/running a business, an event, signage, a home business, short-term letting, etc.
  • Property context: own or rent, residential/commercial, historic district or HOA (these add layers), and whether any work has started
  • The deadline driving it (an event date, a lease start) so lead times can be flagged

Framework

  1. Classify the project — it determines the permit family. Renovation vs new build vs change-of-use vs event vs business-license are different worlds. Nail the category first; everything else follows from it.
  2. List the likely permits, honestly hedged. For the category, name the permits commonly involved (e.g. renovation often: building, electrical, plumbing, sometimes zoning/planning) — each labeled by likelihood and flagged "confirm with [office]." Never assert "you need X" as fact about a specific jurisdiction.
  3. Order by dependency. Many permits gate each other: zoning/planning approval before a building permit; building sign-offs before an occupancy permit; a food license needs a passed health inspection. Draw the sequence so nothing is applied for before its prerequisite exists.
  4. Flag the long poles. Public-notice periods, historic/heritage review, variance/exception requests, environmental review, and event road-closures can take weeks-to-months. Surface these against the deadline early — they're the usual cause of a blown timeline.
  5. Route to the authority for the real answer. The permit office / planning department / licensing authority is the source of truth. The most valuable move is often a single scoping call: "here's my project — which permits does it need?" The skill prepares that call and the checklist to bring to it.
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Output Format

## The project, classified
[Category · location · scale · anything already started (may need retroactive fixes)]

## Likely permits (confirm each — do not rely on this list)
| Permit | Likelihood | Office that owns it | The question to ask them |

## The order to do them
[Dependency sequence — what gates what]

## Long lead times to plan around
[Notice periods, reviews, inspections — against your deadline]

## Your first call
[The scoping question to the permit office, and what to have ready]

⚠ Local code governs; this orients you and routes you to the authority. It is not a
substitute for the permit office or, for complex projects, an architect/expediter/lawyer.

Quality Checks

  • Every permit is hedged by likelihood and routed to a named office to confirm — nothing asserted as certain for the jurisdiction
  • The dependency sequence is explicit (what must precede what)
  • Long-lead / notice-period permits are flagged against the stated deadline
  • Work-already-started is handled (retroactive permits, stop-work risk) if relevant
  • The output ends with a concrete scoping call to the authority

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not assert a specific jurisdiction's permit requirements or code as fact — they're local and change; orient and route to the office
  • Do not give code, structural, or legal advice — flag when an architect, engineer, expediter, or lawyer is the right call
  • Do not present the permit list as complete or authoritative — it's a starting checklist to confirm
  • Do not skip the sequencing — an out-of-order application is the classic wasted month
  • Do not encourage skipping permits or "asking forgiveness" — unpermitted work creates real liability and resale problems; say so

[[trade-quote-builder]] and [[stage-payment-shield]] for the tradespeople doing the work; [[speak-at-the-council]] if the project needs a hearing; [[report-a-hazard]] for the other side of local government.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Do I need a permit for this?"
  • "What permits for my renovation/business/event?"
  • "Help me apply for a permit."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/permit-navigator of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Permit Navigator

What does Permit Navigator do?

Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the…. Permit Navigator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the permit later.

When should I use Permit Navigator?

Permit Navigator fits situations like: someone says do I need a permit for this; what permits for my renovation/business/event; help me apply for a permit; the council flagged my project.

How do I install Permit Navigator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill permit-navigator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/permit-navigator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/permit-navigator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Permit Navigator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill permit-navigator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/permit-navigator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/permit-navigator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Permit Navigator in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill permit-navigator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/permit-navigator, .gemini/skills/permit-navigator, .github/skills/permit-navigator and .opencode/skills/permit-navigator in your project.

What does Permit Navigator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Permit Navigator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Permit Navigator access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Permit Navigator safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Permit Navigator use?

Permit Navigator is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Permit Navigator use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Permit Navigator?

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Who maintains Permit Navigator?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.