We're excited to share a new open-source Claude Skill template, designed to help communities monitor and document immigration enforcement activity in their local area.

What It Does

The ICE/CBP Activity Monitoring Skill gives Claude two complementary skill sets for community documentation:

1. Search & Monitor – systematically searches news outlets, social media, rapid response networks, and legal resources to identify enforcement incidents, evaluate source quality, and identify patterns.
2. Extract & Document – processes alerts, images, and news articles to create structured database entries with 11 standardized fields, including location, date, agencies involved, and verification level.

Why I Built This

Communities across the country are tracking immigration enforcement activity to ensure accountability and transparency. But the work is time-consuming and requires ongoing monitoring of multiple sources, cross-referencing information, and maintaining consistent documentation standards.

This skill template automates the tedious parts while maintaining the careful verification that makes this work credible, allowing organizations to more feasibly conduct this resource-intensive work.

Key Features

Using Claude Skills' progressive disclosure architecture, our Activity Monitoring Skill efficiently reviews and documents immigration enforcement activity for a given area.

• Customizable – Adapt for any U.S. city/region in about 30 minutes
• Multi-Source – Monitors news, social media, court filings, and community organization updates
• Bilingual – Can process content in multiple languages (English/Spanish by default)
• Quality Focused – Three-level verification system (Confirmed/Reported/Alleged)
• Privacy First – Built-in guidelines for responsible documentation

How It Works

Once the template is configured and uploaded to your Claude environment, you can simply type something like: "Run daily ICE monitoring for [YOUR_CITY] - last 24 hours" to get started.

Claude will then search your customized sources, prioritize findings, and help you document incidents with complete, structured data ready for mapping tools or databases.

Set Up

The Skill repository is a template that requires customization for your location (takes about 30 minutes). No programming experience is needed, just find-and-replace with your local news sources, neighborhoods and relevant rapid response networks (if applicable), and active community organizations.

Download: github.com/TitusThrasher/ClaudeSkills

The template is free and open source (MIT License). I've included detailed customization guides, example workflows, and Python helper scripts for automating image extraction and data validation tasks.

Who This Is For

This tool is designed for:

• Community organizations doing government accountability work
• Legal advocates tracking enforcement patterns and collecting evidence
• Journalists covering immigration enforcement
• Researchers studying enforcement trends
• Anyone working to document what's happening in their community

A Note on Responsibility

This skill supports documentation using publicly available information. It includes guidelines for protecting privacy, verifying information, and using data responsibly. Users should ensure their work complies with applicable laws and ethical standards.

I hope this tool helps communities do this vital accountability work more efficiently and effectively.