Israel-Research-Skills: agent notes

Public Claude plugin israel-research. It holds instruction-only skills for Israel-specific research and know-how (rights, civil defence, travel warnings, medicines, offices, phone numbers, opening hours, salaries, shopping). The skills must work on both Claude and ChatGPT. Created 2026-10-16.

Consumers

• Claude: installable directly. The repo is its own marketplace (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, source ./).

• The household ChatGPT Business workspace. The repo is vendored into danielrosehill/Residence-Skills-Marketplace-ChatGPT by danielrosehill/Residence-Skills → skills/publish-to-chatgpt/scripts/publish.sh, through its EXTERNAL map ([israel-research]="danielrosehill/Israel-Research-Skills").

  • The script shallow-clones the pushed default branch.
  • It copies only .claude-plugin/, skills/ and README.md. This repo's marketplace.json is dropped in the copy.
  • It upserts the plugin entry in the ChatGPT marketplace manifest.

  So: push here first, then run publish.sh from Residence-Skills. Do not edit the vendored copy or publish.sh from this repo.

Invariants

• Instruction-only. No .mcp.json; ChatGPT would mark the plugin Desktop only. No scripts that a skill depends on. The skills assume only a web search tool and a web fetch or browsing tool.
• ChatGPT cannot reach the maintainer's machine. It cannot run local Python, Playwright or Chrome, or call a private MCP gateway. Any skill whose core needs those does not belong here.
• Framework-agnostic, per the Agent Skills spec.
  • Frontmatter name equals the folder name.
  • description says what the skill does and when to use it.
  • Refer to capabilities generically ("your web search tool"). Never use vendor tool names (mcp__…, claude-in-chrome, Playwright, Tavily).
• Each skill is self-contained. Bulky data goes in that skill's own references/, because only skills/ is vendored. Cross-references to sibling skills are by name only, as optional hand-offs.
• Date every time-sensitive fact, with an absolute date. Say whether it was verified or inferred. That includes VAT, thresholds, fetchability, endpoints and the snapshot date. Re-verify when editing.
• Public repo. No personal identifiers, household addresses or credentials.
• Out of scope:
  • driving a browser or running local code;
  • bookings and submissions (Israel Post appointments, 106 reports, Netek cancellations);
  • RTL and Hebrew formatting (danielrosehill/RTL-Conformity-Skills);
  • the Jewish calendar (its own plugin);
  • things assistants do natively (news, translation).
• Bump version in both .claude-plugin/plugin.json and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json when skill content changes.

Verification log (2026-10-16)

• Kol Zchut. The whole site is behind Cloudflare.

  • A browser User-Agent gets 200 on /he/<article>, /w/he/api.php (search, opensearch, parse), /w/he/rest.php/v1/search/* and index.php?action=raw.
  • curl's default UA, the bare Mozilla/5.0 UA, and a cloud AI fetch tool get 403 "Just a moment…", even from an Israeli IP.
  • robots.txt disallows /w/*/api.php and /w/*/index.php for crawlers.
  • The English edition was removed 2023-02-02; /en/* redirects to a notice.
  • The Arabic and Russian APIs answer.

  Details: skills/kol-zchut-rights/references/api.md.

• Import tax. VAT is 18%. The personal-import threshold is $75 goods value from 2026-06-02, after $150 and $130 periods. There is a 72-hour rule for same-supplier split parcels. Source: skills/personal-import-tax/references/israel-import-tax.md.
• gov.il and taxes.gov.il: 403 Cloudflare. taxes.gov.il now redirects to gov.il.
• Readable: btl.gov.il, iec.co.il, taasuka.gov.il, zap.co.il search, and Hebcal's Shabbat API.
• drug.co.il: 503 to automated fetches.
• Candle lighting. Hebcal by GeoNames ID gave Jerusalem 17:26, Haifa 17:35 and Tel Aviv 17:47, against a Jerusalem sunset of 18:06. This confirms the 40, 30 and 20 minute customs.

Sources the skills were derived from

• danielrosehill/Claude-Israel-Agent-Skills-Plugin
• danielrosehill/Claude-Israel-Shopping-Plugin
• local ai-claude-plugins/:
  • Aliexpress-Israel-Skills
  • Israel-Phonebook-Manager
  • Claude-Israel-Opening-Hours-Plugin
• israel/Israel-Telephone-Numbering
• israel/Israel-ADHD-Medication-Access (the general rules only, not the case)

The README maps each skill to its source.