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Docs

Every page this repository publishes, in one place — reference pages about how the thing is built, and the product surfaces themselves. Not linked from the primary nav and not indexed. Kitchen sink for now; this list will get more opinionated once the surfaces settle.

Reference

The data model

Every dataset we store and every third-party endpoint it was ingested from, as one interactive map. Click a table for its fields, a real record, its provenance chain and the live URL of the API it came from.

/docs/data-model

also as data: model.json · FIELDS.md (flat field reference)

The chain of command

The three branches laid out as a hierarchy, plus a fourth column for the voters, firms and researchers who file back in, with one bill traced from statute through enforcement and back out to whoever the rule lands on.

/gov-graph

Domain language

The terms of art of American lawmaking, as Downstream uses them — the specialist register, terse and citation-dense.

/lexicon/domain-language.html

also as data: domain-language.json — the index the MCP define / annotate tools read

Plain language

Every term and concept this site uses, explained without jargon, each one cited back to the statute, chamber rule or agency that defines it. Same territory as domain language, for the reader who does not work in policy.

/plain

also as data: plain.json

Design system

The brand system in action — voice and copy rules, the status palette, motifs — applied to real components rather than described in prose.

/styleguide

Product surfaces

The daily issue

What the government did: every Federal Register document published on a day, the last ten business days, and where the action is by part of the executive.

/daily

also as data: data/index.json

Floor Radar

The House's weekly floor schedule, captured and cited, with sponsorship shown inline where the record has been retrieved.

/floor

also as data: data/index.json · data/measures.json

Presidential memoranda

The one surface the Federal Register does not fully cover, reconciled against it document by document — every memorandum whitehouse.gov has published, and whether the Register ever printed it.

/presidential

full archive · also as data: data/documents.json

Shareable quotes

Verbatim lines on venture capital, AI and big tech, drawn from Federal Register documents this archive holds, each checked against the capture before publishing.

/quotes

also as data: quotes.json

Everything above except this page's own prose is generated from source rather than hand-typed: the data model from docs/data-model/model.mjs, checked by docs/data-model/selftest.mjs on every npm test; the rest by each surface's own build.mjs. This index itself is still hand-authored — docs/data-model/build.mjs's INDEX constant — so a new surface has to be added here by hand until enough of them exist to generate this list too. The MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh reads most of the data above over JSON-RPC rather than a page load; see api/mcp.js.