The legislative-process corpus, parallel to the U.S. Code statute corpus.
schemas/bill.schema.json + scripts/ingest_legislation.py (deterministic,
stdlib-only, reads per-state JSONL from the depot); validate.py gains
legislation/ as a third tree; Makefile 'legislation' target. Raw JSONL stays
off-repo on the depot (gitignored); the per-state SHA-256 manifest is the
committed provenance anchor. Vintage 2026-07-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Code genuinely contains distinct sections sharing one number (two
5 U.S.C. 5757, two 10 U.S.C. 130g, two 5 U.S.C. 3598). The ingest
silently overwrote the first with the second — data loss in a mirror.
Later occurrences now get a deterministic -N suffix.
The 'elections' tag was hardcoded from the Title 52 seed; it now
applies only to Title 52, with a per-title EXTRA_TAGS map. Makefile
gains TITLES override: make legal-us-code TITLES="7 10".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add `make board` and docs/board.md so the Board's rebuild-and-redeploy flow
is a documented step, not tribal knowledge. Covers why the county data is
inlined (self-contained Artifact / CSP), that build_viz.py injects it into
board.html, and that a live Artifact must be REPUBLISHED (editing the repo
file doesn't update a deployed Artifact). README links it in both the make
list and the docs index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The diff is the product — now literally. generate_changelog.py reads a
git diff of the entity tree between any two refs and says, in plain
language, what changed in the government: entities added / modified /
removed, grouped by type and by jurisdiction, dated from the commit.
CHANGELOG.md is seeded from the real history so far:
- initial load: +11,285 people across 51 states
- institutional gap: +233 bodies, ~532 people enriched
- elections + demographics: +2,494 candidates, +3,494 jurisdictions
(TX +541, FL +396, CA +341 ...)
On an initial load every entity is an addition; on a re-sync of the same
source, only real government changes will surface — which is the whole
point. When nothing changed, it says so.
make changelog [BASE=.. HEAD=..]. No third-party deps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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>
Fabio