Icelandic Data

Data toolkit for Icelandic public data. The .agents/skills/ files document each data source — API endpoints, series codes, encoding quirks, classification changes — and the scripts/ directory has Python scripts that fetch, clean, and transform the data. It’s harness-agnostic: any agent that can read the skills and run the scripts they reference (Claude Code, Codex, and others) works.

“I spent a good chunk of my career, including an entire startup, DataMarket, making public data accessible. This project cracks the problem from the angle I now believe is the right one: don’t build another portal, make the data agent-ready. Ask a question in plain language and watch it pull together answers from dozens of official sources. I’ve been showing it to people in government as a direct demonstration of what such an approach can deliver.”

  Hjálmar Gíslason
  Founder & CEO of GRID
  Previously founder of DataMarket (acquired by Qlik)

The data sources badge reports upstream health, not this repo’s code: a source only turns it red after 7 straight days down or returning the wrong shape. Anything shorter is weather — these are public APIs and they blink. Details in AGENTS.md; raw history is on the health-history branch.

Not a portable skill library. The skills reference co-located scripts and work as a unit. Get the repo, run setup, and use an agent to research questions, join data sources, or produce outputs — a gist, a CSV, an HTML report, whatever fits. It is plain Python and runs on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Structure

.agents/skills/{source}/SKILL.md → Data source docs (API, endpoints, caveats)
scripts/{source}.py              → Fetch + transform scripts
tests/health/test_{source}.py    → Upstream health probes (marker: health)
data/raw/{source}/               → Raw downloads
data/processed/                  → Cleaned datasets

Skills follow the agentskills.io open standard. .agents/skills/ is the real location (read natively by Codex); .claude/skills symlinks to it for Claude