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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>
Republic OS
An open, version-controlled mirror of public power in the United States.
Government is already software: statutes are code, agencies are processes, elections change the maintainers, and a bill is a pull request against the law. What government has never had is a changelog. This repository is that changelog.
The diff is the product. Every file here mirrors the observable public state of a government entity — people, offices, bodies, meetings, organizations, money, issues — as deterministic, sourced, human-readable records. When government changes, the files change, and git makes the change visible, permanent, and inspectable.
- Founding document: Technical Brief — Government as Software
- Format: Markdown + YAML frontmatter (OKF-conformant), validated by JSON Schema
- Data: raw source exports land in
data/first; refinement into structured entity files is itself a visible diff - Substrate for: influence.tools
Three disciplines govern everything here: never overwrite, never rewrite history, always push off-box.