Using Claude to put all Global Law into Git

This hit #1 on HN yesterday (you can read lots of discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380 ). Why would I want to do this? The idea is make all law semantic, versioned, easily attributable and query able by agents. I also believe this information should be freely available so CC0 license (do whatever you want with it). If interested, repo linked below, I'd welcome all comments and advice. Thanks!

I built this project with Claude Code. It's completely free to use/try. The approach is pretty simple: use claude to make legislation attributable (git blame, versioning with timelines). Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) wrote nearly all the code. I set the goals, chose the sources and made the design decisions. Specifically:

I ran separate Claude Code sessions, one per country or group of countries. Each one read the official publisher's site or API, checked robots.txt and the terms of use, and wrote a script that downloads every version of each law. The script then writes them out as a git history, one commit per change on its in-force date. When a source only publishes amending Acts, the script rebuilds past versions by applying each amendment in turn. The sessions shared findings with each other, such as dates before 1970, daylight-saving edge cases and other changes.

I also worked on how the countries combine into one tree, with each country as a git submodule and all their histories interleaved by in-force date. Claude wrote the build script to ensure two independent builds come out hash-for-hash identical (usually i'd consider this overkill, but you want a good VCS for this).