What is civ.iq CLAUDE.md?

A set of instructions for an AI coding assistant working on civ.iq, a civic-information platform built with Next.js, TypeScript, and React. The platform uses real government data rather than made-up examples.

Use it when changing civ.iq code, especially API routes, public pages, intelligence features, and shared services. It requires strict type safety, real government APIs, validation checks, short implementation-and-validation cycles, and conventional commits.

It gives the assistant project rules that help avoid fake data, unsafe TypeScript, incomplete validation, and inconsistent commits. It also explains the project's structure and domain constraints.

How civdotiq/civ.iq configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to civdotiq/civ.iq. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/civdotiq/civ.iq/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/civdotiq/civ.iq

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade C, and why

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A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| Build fails | `rm -rf .next && npm run build` |

CLAUDE.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.MD - CIV.IQ AI Assistant Instructions

Quick Context

Project: civic-intel-hub | Stack: Next.js 16 + TypeScript + React 18 Purpose: Civic intelligence platform using ONLY real government APIs (no mock data ever) Status: 100% TypeScript compliant, 249 API endpoints, 21 intelligence analyzers

Critical Rules (NEVER VIOLATE)

Real Data Only: Use real government APIs or show "Data unavailable" - NEVER fake data
TypeScript Strict: No any types, full null safety with optional chaining
Quality Gates: All code must pass npm run validate:all before completion
30-Line Rule: Never write more than 30 lines without validation
Clean Commits: Use conventional commits (feat/fix/docs/chore)
Ask First: Clarify approach before implementing non-trivial features

Project Structure

src/
├── app/api/              # 249 API routes (real data only)
├── app/(civic)/          # Public pages
├── components/           # React components
│   └── intelligence/     # 35 insight cards and analysis displays
├── features/             # Feature modules (campaign-finance, legislation, representatives)
├── lib/                  # Utilities and services
│   ├── intelligence/     # 21 analyzers, ML models, embeddings, entity resolution
│   ├── nostr/            # Nostr event signing and relay publishing
│   └── data-sources/     # Federal Register, FRED, SEC, lobbying services
├── types/                # TypeScript definitions
└── hooks/                # Custom React hooks
packages/                 # npm workspaces — all three must be present for `npm ci`
├── civic-statistics/     # @civiq/civic-statistics
├── entity-resolution/    # @civiq/entity-resolution
└── sdk/                  # @civiq/sdk — TypeScript client for the public API

Domain Rules (in .claude/rules/)

Detailed rules are decomposed into focused files loaded automatically:

design-system.md — Aicher/Ulm School: colors, typography, borders, wayfinding, banned patterns
intelligence-layer.md — Analyzer architecture, confidence scores, causation language, sample sizes
security.md — Data integrity, API key handling, address-not-ZIP, input sanitization
workflow.md — Guiding principles, workflow habits, when-stuck protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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civ.iq CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository civdotiq/civ.iq (0 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 803 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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