The Tree Grows a New Ring: Recomposing a Civic AI in Hours
On recomposing a multi-repo civic AI system between two rounds of a municipal election
Municipal elections, democratic participation, and electoral program analysis
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How closing a civic tool for election day became the session that birthed two agents and elevated simplicity to a principle
Written the night before the first round of the municipal elections of Audierne-Esquibien
How a WhatsApp message revealed a systemic bias we didn't intend — and why open source made the fix possible in hours
How infrastructure built for something else found its purpose in a small commune's elections
A manifesto for civic AI, written five days before the municipal elections of Audierne-Esquibien
How a single email from a candidate revealed four distinct failures in four distinct layers — and why Separation of Concerns was the only way to fix them
How a single false correction revealed the need for local geographic authority in AI pipelines
How 60 social media screenshots became a searchable civic memory in one afternoon