# AI use disclosure

Veridity is built with substantial help from AI tools. This file records which parts were AI-generated and which parts came from the founder. It's updated as the project grows. It exists for transparency and for competition rules that require disclosing AI use, such as the Congressional App Challenge.

## Tools

| Tool                                                         | Provider  | Used for                                                                     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5)                                | Anthropic | Design interview, research, specs, architecture decisions, mockups, and code |
| Claude subagents and multi-agent workflows (Claude Opus 5.5) | Anthropic | Parallel research, drafting, adversarial review, and verification            |

## What the founder did

- Came up with the product concept and vision: an open, transparent "Palantir for the press" and "Bloomberg Terminal for public information".
- Made every product, policy, legal-risk, and spending decision during a structured design interview (2026-10-09), in which Claude asked questions and the founder chose. The decisions are listed in [docs/design/README.md](docs/design/README.md).
- Reviews and directs all work.

## What AI generated

| Artifact                                                                                | Generated by                                                                               | Founder role                                                                    |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `docs/research/`                                                                        | Claude research agents (web research, with citations)                                      | Asked the questions the research answered                                       |
| `docs/ontology/ontology-draft.json`                                                     | Claude ontology agents plus a critic agent                                                 | Set the scope ("everything"), reviewed it, and added the coverage-gap domains   |
| `docs/mockups/`                                                                         | Claude UI design agents                                                                    | Chose the visual direction (dense terminal, Vercel/Geist style)                 |
| `docs/design/`                                                                          | Claude spec-writing agents plus a consistency critic, working from the founder's decisions | Made the decisions the spec describes                                           |
| `docs/adr/`                                                                             | Claude research agents plus an architect agent                                             | Delegated purely technical choices to Claude ("whatever is technically better") |
| `README.md`, `LICENSE` setup, this file                                                 | Claude                                                                                     | Chose AGPL-3.0 for the code and CC BY 4.0 for the data                          |
| Monorepo foundation: tooling config, package skeletons, Postgres image, CI (2026-10-10) | Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5), following the ADRs                                          | Delegated the technical choices; directs and reviews the work                   |
| Other application code                                                                  | Not yet written. This table will be updated as code lands.                                 |                                                                                 |

## Policy

- Commits containing AI-generated work carry a `Co-Authored-By` trailer naming the model.
- This file must stay accurate. If a contribution's origin is unclear, describe it as AI-assisted.