Local Government Research Agent

R&D on use of agents to assist with metadata gathering around local government meetings and resources (agendas, minutes, meeting videos, etc.).

User stories

• What are the agency meetings in my community?
• What information is missing? Can you help me find details about meetings that are missing information I need?
• What types of information is most important for me to know what's worth covering? (Date, time of meeting start, additional side-meetings, agenda, packets, transcripts, audio, cancelled?, deleted?, time-changed?)
• Where should I deploy reporters/documenters? What upcoming meetings look like they will be most crucial to cover and don't have associated information?

Web Research via Claude Desktop + MCP

To tinker with Claude as a research agent that drives the browser for gathering agency metadata, install and configure the following:

• Claude Desktop
• A browser automation plugin for Claude Desktop that supports the Model Context Protocol such as playwright-mcp

Data sources

• Census list of gov entities