Open Source Governance Infrastructure

Build political governance in public.

Potato is a governance framework for communities that want constitutions, manifesto articles, proposals, and review workflows to behave like maintainable infrastructure: version controlled, inspectable, tested, and open to contribution.

Read the Canada manifesto Start a new instance

Public source of truth: Git history, proposal review, and automated checks.

How a policy change moves

The framework treats governance as a reviewable pipeline rather than a static PDF. Ideas start in public, pick up structure, pass checks, then either merge or loop back for revision.

flowchart LR A[Community idea] --> B[Discussion or issue] B --> C[Draft proposal] C --> D[Pull request and CI] D --> E[Community review] E --> F{Consensus reached?} F -->|Yes| G[Merged into policy] F -->|Not yet| H[Revise, reopen, or archive]

What this repo gives you

A reusable operating model for civic groups, political movements, student unions, cooperatives, and any community that wants auditable collective decision-making.

Manifesto and constitution modules One topic per file, easier to review and amend without rewriting everything.
Governance review pipeline Issues, pull requests, CI checks, and explicit ratification paths.
Instance-based architecture Keep the framework stable while each community adapts the content to its own law and politics.

Status Active prototype

Reference instance Canada

Delivery model Pages + GitHub API

Start Here

Read the manifesto

Open the styled manifesto browser and read the Canada reference instance article by article.

Open manifesto

Follow live proposals

See open pull requests, proposal status, and the public review surface for governance changes.

View proposals

Inspect repository health

Browse the governance dashboard for CI status, ADR count, recent commits, and contributor activity.

Open health dashboard

Launch a new instance

Use the framework for your own community, movement, organization, or local democratic experiment.

Start a new instance

Learn the contribution flow

Read the participant guide, issue templates, and proposal process on GitHub.

Read participation guide

See the roadmap

Track the project phases, architecture decisions, and pending infrastructure work.

Open roadmap

Version controlled governance

Constitutions, bylaws, experiments, and manifesto articles live as plain text with a public audit trail.

Reviewable by humans and agents

Codex, Claude, Gemini, and human contributors all work against the same repository contract.

Structured for policy iteration

Proposals can be drafted, tested, challenged, merged, archived, or reopened without losing history.

Charter-aware process

Rights review is treated as a required governance gate, even when automation is only acting as a placeholder.