The Pack
Seven numbered files. The first commit in this vault, published before the work it specifies.
🏠 Vault index ↗ › Pack
| # | File | Holds |
|---|---|---|
| 00 | README↗ | The argument in one paragraph. Scope. What must not be rebuilt. The success criterion |
| 01 | What Exists↗ | The assembly inventory, both sides. Two new things, nine reused |
| 02 | The Model↗ | Nodes, edges, two-hash addressing, provenance fields, the two-edge rule |
| 03 | The Worked Example↗ | The deliverable. Santa Barbara County, the CPRA, one acceptance, seven steps |
| 04 | The Vault↗ | The team, the viewers, the graph settings, releases, the corrections offer |
| 05 | The Workbench↗ | The bulk pipeline, compiled artefacts, browser database, seven computations |
| 06 | Verification↗ | Thirteen acceptance tests, five open blockers, what would make this pack wrong |
If you read one file, read 03. Everything else exists to make it defensible.
The Argument, In One Paragraph
UnGovr publishes an excellent graph of government: roughly 320,000 entities across 205 countries, with hierarchy, boundaries, and a spatial join that resolves an address into every overlapping jurisdiction. Each entity carries one edge to the open-records law that governs it, and then stops. A consumer can learn which law applies and can never point at the clause that requires anything. So a claim built on their data can be about a jurisdiction and never about an obligation — and an obligation is the only thing that can carry a risk, a control or an acceptance.
This is not a criticism. That edge is exactly right for their stated purpose. It is one hop short of the purpose everybody downstream has.
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