The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Locus listing page.
Install two Locus agent skills: the general MCP/REST/A2A capability guide and the opt-in surrounding-area purchase workflow.
Locus returns awareness and verification steps, not a verdict. Do not use it to score, rank, screen, value, predict, or label a person, property, block, or neighborhood as safe or unsafe.
By default this writes locus-agent-tools/ and locus-surrounding-area-analysis/ to $CODEX_HOME/skills or ~/.codex/skills. The general public skill routes relevant requests to the purchase workflow; it does not turn ordinary Locus discovery into a paid flow.
Options:
Preview first:
The same skill is also available from the public GitHub repo through the open skills CLI:
Useful variants:
locus_place_facts is the best first call when supported.locus_lane_availability shows national, local, varies, not-covered, and degraded lanes before payment.Docs: https://docs.locus.report/skill.md
The live paid index is authoritative: https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json. Current endpoints are:
| Endpoint | Current price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
POST /api/locus-place-report | $0.05 | Compiled cited property-context artifact. |
POST /api/locus-place-report-batch | $0.25 | Async 10-50 address portfolio job, one settlement. |
POST /api/locus-local-trend-brief | $0.05 | Permit, 311, and code-case local-change brief where source coverage is strong enough. |
POST /api/locus-local-policy-brief | $0.07 | Property-relevant bills, agendas, ordinances, tax, fee, bond, housing, and permit-change context. |
POST /api/locus-before-you-sign | $0.07 | Pre-decision bundle over parcel, trend, and policy components. |
POST /api/locus-environmental-context | $0.05 | Address-level EPA TRI/RCRA/SDWIS/radon context ranked by distance where possible. |
POST /api/locus-property-tax | $0.05 | Residential property-tax artifact with assessed value, annual tax, history, effective rate, and provenance. |
POST /api/locus-surrounding-area-analysis | $0.10 | Stored, bounded JSON evidence packet. Charge-suppressed unless the subject, surrounding-parcel foundation, and another component complete. |
POST /api/locus-surrounding-area-report | $0.15 | One HTML/PDF rendering of an eligible packet; no research rerun. |
Unsupported, discovery-only, commercial, or insufficient-data cases return free diagnostics instead of charging where applicable.
MIT.