Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub

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Spanish law was turned into a Git repository, inspiring the creation of a Git repository for US law in under two days.
The entire United States Code was parsed from official XML, transformed into structured Markdown, and committed to Git for easy browsing and versioning.
Git enables clean diffs for law changes, allowing users to see exact modifications and context, unlike traditional text directives.
Previous attempts at such repositories were abandoned; this project aims to be sustainable with structured metadata and cross-references.
The project was built using an autonomous software development pipeline called Dark Factory, with AI agents handling tasks and adversarial reviews catching real bugs.
Files are organized at the chapter level (~3,000 files) to balance context and performance, avoiding overly granular or massive files.
Future plans include ingesting historical snapshots back to 2013, tagging annual releases, and representing bills as pull requests for full legislative lifecycle tracking.
Law is likened to code, with bugs, features, dependencies, and version history, now enhanced with Git's diff capabilities for transparency.
The repositories (nickvido/us-code and nickvido/us-code-tools) are publicly available, with all development history visible and no cleanup of failures.

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