Replace old rule-based agent with pure LLM interpretation system.
Agent Changes:
- Rename agent.py → agent_legacy.py (preserve old hard-coded agent)
- Rename agent_refactored.py → agent.py (make LLM agent primary)
- Agent now interprets constitution to understand authority and processes
- No hard-coded checks for specific users, roles, or governance models
- Fully generic: works with any constitutional design
Constitution Interpreter:
- Updated interpret_proposal() to detect authority structures from text
- LLM determines who has decision-making power from constitution
- No assumptions about voting, proposals, or specific governance models
Mastodon Formatting:
- Improved line break handling for bullet points and paragraphs
- Better plain-text formatting for Mastodon posts
Primitives:
- Added support for admin_approval threshold type
Architecture:
- Bot now uses pure LLM interpretation instead of scripted logic
- Each instance can develop implementation guidelines separately
- Guidelines not included in main codebase (instance-specific)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Govbot is an AI-powered governance bot that interprets natural language
constitutions and facilitates collective decision-making across social
platforms.
Core features:
- Agentic architecture with constitutional reasoning (RAG)
- Platform-agnostic design (Mastodon, Discord, Telegram, etc.)
- Action primitives for flexible governance processes
- Temporal awareness for multi-day proposals and voting
- Audit trail with constitutional citations
- Reversible actions with supermajority veto
- Works with local (Ollama) and cloud AI models
Platform support:
- Mastodon: Full implementation with streaming, moderation, and admin skills
- Discord/Telegram: Platform abstraction ready for implementation
Documentation:
- README.md: Architecture and overview
- QUICKSTART.md: Getting started guide
- PLATFORMS.md: Platform implementation guide for developers
- MASTODON_SETUP.md: Complete Mastodon deployment guide
- constitution.md: Example governance constitution
Technical stack:
- Python 3.11+
- SQLAlchemy for state management
- llm CLI for model abstraction
- Mastodon.py for Mastodon integration
- Pydantic for configuration validation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
