Overview
This resource is an open-source framework that connects Claude to live open government data from Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC, guiding analysts through five phases of city policy work: framing the problem, analyzing the data, communicating findings, benchmarking across cities, and managing performance. It draws on established public-innovation methodologies—including the Bloomberg Centers at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Kennedy School, J-PAL at MIT, and The GovLab at NYU and Northeastern—and pairs each phase with a structured skill that labels every claim by confidence level, foregrounds equity, and states its limitations rather than overstating what administrative data can prove. It connects to data through Model Context Protocol servers, ships with templates, checklists, and worked examples, and includes a 29-prompt evaluation suite that tests retrieval accuracy across four levels of rigor, making it a practical starting point for government analysts who want reproducible, audience-appropriate, action-oriented analysis.
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