PocketVeto/ROADMAP.md

PocketVeto — Roadmap

Consolidated feature roadmap and release history. Shipped items reflect what is live as of v0.9.10.

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Shipped

Foundation & Core Pipeline

• Docker Compose stack — PostgreSQL, Redis, FastAPI, Celery, Next.js, Nginx fully containerized
• Bill polling — Congress.gov incremental sync, filtered to legislation that can become law (hr, s, hjres, sjres)
• Document fetching — GovInfo bill text retrieval with smart truncation for LLM token budgets
• LLM analysis — multi-provider AI briefs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama) with amendment diffing
• Citations — every key point and risk cites the bill section + verbatim quote; cited_fact / inference label
• Citation UI — § chips expand inline with quote + GovInfo source link; "Inferred" badge on analytical items
• News correlation — NewsAPI + Google News RSS articles linked to bills via topic tags
• Trend scoring — composite zeitgeist score (0–100) from NewsAPI + Google News + Google Trends, nightly
• Full-text search — PostgreSQL tsvector across bills and members
• Multi-user auth — JWT email/password, admin role, user management panel
• Admin panel — LLM provider/model switching, pipeline stats, external API health, manual task triggers
• Bill type filtering — only legislation that can become law; 60-day seed window on fresh install

Member Profiles & Mobile

• Member profiles — bio, contact info, leadership roles, service history, sponsored/cosponsored counts
• Member interest scoring — composite trend score (NewsAPI + GNews + pytrends), nightly; lazy-loaded on first profile view
• Member news — articles correlated to members via name search
• Mobile UI — responsive layout, slide-in drawer, hamburger header, touch-friendly controls

Follows & Personalization

• Follows — per-user bill, member, and topic follows
• Follow modes — neutral | pocket_veto | pocket_boost with mode-selector UI and descriptions
• Dashboard — personalized feed from followed bills/members/topics + trending
• Public browsing — unauthenticated guests browse bills, members, topics, and trending; AuthModal gates interactive actions
• Welcome banner — dismissible onboarding card for guests; localStorage dismiss state

Bill Detail Features

• Bill action pipeline — full legislative action history from Congress.gov; nightly batch + event-driven on change
• Action timeline — full history with latest-action fallback while history loads
• Amendment briefs — "What Changed" badge; collapsible version history panel
• Bill text status indicators — Brief / Pending / No text badge on BillCard (single batch query)
• Draft letter generator — select up to 3 cited brief points, generate constituent letter via configured LLM; ZIP not stored
• Personal notes — private per-bill note with pin, auto-resize textarea; one note per user per bill
• Sponsor linking — poller fetches bill detail for sponsor; backfill task for existing bills
• "No bill text" state — shown on detail page when GovInfo has nothing published

Collections & Sharing

• Collections / Watchlists — named groups of bills, public/private, UUID share token; CollectionPicker popover on bill detail
• Shareable brief links — share_token on bill_briefs; public /share/brief/[token] page, no login required
• Shareable collection links — public /share/collection/[token] page, no login required

Notifications

• ntfy push — Celery dispatcher POSTs to user's ntfy topic; optional token/basic auth
• RSS feed — private tokenized XML feed per user; always real-time
• Quiet hours — local-time window (IANA timezone auto-detected by browser); events queued and sent as batch after window
• Digest mode — bundled ntfy summary on daily or weekly schedule instead of per-event pushes
• Weekly digest — Monday 8:30 AM UTC; 7-day summary of followed bill activity via ntfy + RSS
• Change-driven alerts — categorize_action() maps action text to 6 named categories; all three follow types (bill, sponsor, topic) covered
• Granular per-mode alert filters — 8 independently toggleable alert types per follow mode (Follow / Pocket Veto / Pocket Boost); preset defaults; tabbed UI with per-tab save
• Roll-call votes — bill_votes + member_vote_positions tables; on-demand fetch from Congress.gov /votes endpoint; VotePanel on bill detail shows yea/nay bar + followed member positions
• Email notifications — SMTP / Resend integration; HTML templates; one-click unsubscribe tokens; per-user opt-in (v0.9.10)

UX & Polish

• Party badges — solid red/blue/slate, readable in light and dark mode
• Chamber badges — amber/gold for Senate, slate/silver for House
• Fact vs inference labeling — cited_fact / inference on every cited point; backfill task for existing briefs
• Following page — accordion sections, search, topic filters
• Member search — "First Last" and "Last, First" both match via PostgreSQL split_part()
• How It Works page — feature guide covering follow modes, alert filter customization, collections, notifications, AI briefs
• Bill detail page tab UI — four tabs: Analysis, Timeline, Votes, Notes
• Topic tag pills on bill detail and listing pages — clickable, filtered to 20 known topics
• Collapsible sidebar — icon-only mode, localStorage persistence
• Favicon — Landmark icon
• LLM Batch API — OpenAI + Anthropic async batch endpoints; 50% cost reduction; state tracked in AppSetting("llm_active_batch")

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Up Next

Phase 4 — Accountability

• Vote History & Timeline — surface roll-call votes in the action timeline; add a "Votes" filter to the bills list so users can find bills that have had floor votes.
• Member Effectiveness Score — nightly Celery task; transparent formula: sponsored bills, bills advanced through stages, co-sponsorships, committee participation, bills enacted. Stored in member_scores. Displayed on member profile with formula explanation.
• Representation Alignment View — for each followed member, show how their votes and actions align with the user's followed topics. Neutral presentation — no scorecard framing.

Phase 5 — Search & Polish

• Search Improvements — filters on global search (bill type, status, chamber, date range); search within a member's sponsored bills; topic-scoped search.
• Desktop View — wider multi-column layout for large screens: sticky sidebar, expanded grid, richer bill detail.
• first_name / last_name Backfill — Celery task to populate empty first/last from stored "Last, First" name field via split (affects ~10% of member records).

Backlog

• Notification Channels v2 — email (SMTP), Discord webhook, Telegram bot.
• Cross-Bill Referencing — extract referenced bill IDs from LLM briefs; bill_references table; hover preview popover in BriefPanel for referenced legislation.
• Source Viewer Option B — in-app bill text viewer with cited passage highlighted and scroll-to-anchor. Deferred pending UX review of the current GovInfo-link approach.
• Raw Diff Panel — difflib diff between stored document versions, shown as collapsible "Raw Changes" below the amendment brief. Zero API calls.
• Shareable Collection Subscriptions — "Follow this collection" so other users can subscribe to a public collection and get its bills added to their feed.

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v1.0 Definition

v1.0 ships when the following are all live:

• Full bill pipeline (poll → fetch text → LLM brief → news → trend score)
• Cited AI briefs with fact/inference labels
• Follow modes (neutral / pocket_veto / pocket_boost)
• Granular per-mode notification filters
• Push (ntfy) + RSS + digest + quiet hours
• Collections with share links
• Shareable brief links
• Personal notes
• Draft letter generator
• Public browsing (no account required to read)
• Multi-user auth with admin panel
• Member effectiveness score
• Roll-call vote data

All other items above are post-v1.0.

All v1.0 criteria are met. v1.0 pending final code review and documentation pass.