The Code empowers the executive branch, but the mirror only had legislative
Bodies — every authority reference pointed at nothing. Fixed by minting the
executive branch from the Code's OWN enumerations: 15 Cabinet departments
(5 U.S.C. § 101) + 21 Executive-Schedule Level I offices (§ 5312), 42 Body
nodes under us/executive/.
Then the axis: scripts/extract_authority.py matches named office/department
references across all 59,740 sections (guarding against Deputy/Assistant/Under
subordinates) and emits data/section_authority_edges.jsonl — 27,804 edges from
17,031 sections (28.7% of the Code) to the offices they empower. build.py
renders reciprocal 'empowered by' links on each office node; the section files
are never touched. Now: click the Attorney General, see all 2,386 sections that
vest authority in it.
Named references only in v1 (cabinet-level). Deterministic; body.schema
classification enum extended (executive-department/-agency/-office); make check
green at 105,746 records.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README claimed 'validated by JSON Schema' — now it is true.
/schemas holds a JSON Schema for each entity type (Person, Body,
Candidate, Jurisdiction): a stricter profile over OKF's permissive
base, tolerating unknown keys by design.
scripts/validate.py checks all 17,506 files with no third-party deps
(hand-rolled frontmatter parser + minimal schema engine):
1. OKF conformance — every file has frontmatter with a non-empty type
2. Schema conformance — required fields, property types, enums
3. Link integrity — internal /-rooted links resolve
Non-zero exit on failure, so it is a CI gate. Verified with a negative
test: it catches bad enums and dead links. All 17,506 files pass today.
Makefile ties it together: make build / validate / check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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