Major Features:
- Mastodon integration with polling-based listener (streaming unreliable)
- Claude AI integration via llm CLI with API key support
- Public proposal announcements with voting
- Markdown stripping for Mastodon plain text
- Thread-aware voting system
Configuration:
- Added requirements.txt with all dependencies
- API key configuration in config.yaml (not streamed keys)
- Support for multiple Claude models via llm-anthropic
Platform Adapter (Mastodon):
- Polling notifications every 5 seconds (more reliable than streaming)
- Notification ID tracking to prevent re-processing on restart
- Markdown stripping for clean plain text output
- Vote thread matching via announcement IDs
Agent & Governance:
- Conversational tone (direct, concise, not legalistic)
- Proposal creation with AI-generated titles and descriptions
- Public announcements for proposals with all details
- Vote casting with automatic proposal detection from threads
- Constitutional reasoning for governance decisions
Bot Features:
- Long message splitting into threaded posts
- Public proposal announcements separate from user replies
- Announcement includes: title, proposer, description, deadline, voting instructions
- Vote tracking linked to proposal announcement threads
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>
