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The README described intent; the repo is now real. Rewrote it to reflect what actually exists — 17,506 validated files across four entity types, the deterministic pipeline, the commands — and added the /docs tree: government-as-code.md the philosophy: git primitives -> government data-model.md entity types, IDs, file format, the tree, determinism sources.md where every fact comes from, and how current roadmap.md done / next / later, honest about what isn't built contributing.md the disciplines, and how to add a source Plus data/sources/sources.yaml — the machine-readable source registry. Every count, path, and source claim is grounded in the current tree, not the aspirational brief. Internal links verified; validation still clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Roadmap
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An honest account of what exists, what's next, and what's further out. This repository will always be evolving; there is no "finished."
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## Done
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- **The substrate** — repo-canonical, OKF markdown + YAML frontmatter, JSON-Schema validated, deterministic build (byte-identical on rerun).
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- **Four entity types, 17,506 files** — Person (11,285), Body (233), Candidate (2,494), Jurisdiction (3,494).
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- **The federal government, structurally** — every member of Congress, the chambers, 49 committees and 181 subcommittees with their leadership, and every member's committee seats.
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- **The nationwide county skeleton** — all 3,131 U.S. counties as demographic nodes, plus 363 congressional districts, from Census ACS.
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- **The 2026 federal candidate field** — every FEC filing as a Candidate.
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- **Florida to the ground** — officeholders down to the municipal level across all 67 counties.
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- **The pipeline** — `make build` / `validate` / `changelog` / `check`, standard-library only.
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- **The changelog engine** — git diffs rendered as a plain-language civic changelog.
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- **The Board** — a self-contained coverage map ([`viz/board.html`](../viz/board.html)).
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## Next
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- **Self-updating mirror** — a GitHub Action running `make check` on every push, then a scheduled job that pulls a fresh Atlas export, rebuilds, and commits the changelog automatically. This is the point where the mirror maintains itself and the daily civic changelog becomes real (the first *re-sync* diff, where only genuine government changes surface).
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- **The demographic choropleth** — the Board already has ACS data for every county; shade the map by population, income, and poverty, turning it from a coverage indicator into an instrument.
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- **State and local bodies** — Bodies currently exist only at the federal level. Mint them for state legislatures and, following the Florida depth, county commissions and city councils.
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- **Graph export** — a loader that walks the tree and builds the relationship graph (Memgraph) as a materialized view, so the repo can rehydrate the graph rather than the reverse.
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## Later
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- **The issues axis** — cross-cutting `Issue` entities that link people, bodies, and places across the jurisdiction tree, so the mirror answers "who, nationwide, is touching this issue?" and not only "who governs here?"
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- **The money layer** — donations, contracts, and grants as sourced event files; the flows that make influence legible (the Sankey / "circuit-breaker" views from the brief).
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- **Meetings and agendas** — the highest-value local data, and the hardest: scraped from Legistar / Granicus / CivicPlus portals and, where towns publish nothing in text, from meeting video. A new agenda item is a diff with a deadline — a mission.
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- **Contribution as correction** — let people propose fixes to the mirror (a wrong phone number, a missed meeting) as pull requests, making the public literal contributors to their own civic record.
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## Non-goals
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Deliberately out of scope, to keep the mirror honest and buildable:
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- Becoming an authority. This is a mirror; official sources remain the source of truth.
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- A heavy web application, database dependency, or graph-database setup in the core repository. The substrate stays flat files.
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- Ingesting all of government at once. Depth follows attention, county by county.
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