MK-Claude 🇮🇱🤖

An AI-assisted political platform for a party that doesn't exist.

📖 Read it as a site → danielrosehill.github.io/MK-Claude

MK — Member of Knesset. Claude is not one, is not eligible to become one, and would lose its deposit.

What is this?

Israel is heading into (yet another) election. Like many voters, I find myself feeling disenfranchised — let down by a political system that seems to produce slogans rather than substance, and parties whose "platforms" are often a page of vibes rather than a plan.

This repository is an experiment: what would it look like to build a political platform properly?

Working with Claude (Anthropic's AI), the goal is to formulate a genuine, detailed political manifesto for Israel — one that is researched (grounded in actual data, comparative policy, and cited sources), precise (concrete proposals with mechanisms and costs), coherent, and honest about trade-offs — every policy has losers as well as winners, and a serious platform says who they are.

It is being written in public while unfinished, including the numbers that have not been checked yet.

Repository structure

The content and the website are the same tree. Everything under site/src/content/docs/ is both a Markdown file you can read here on GitHub and a page on the site.

site/
  src/content/docs/        ← the content root; all paths below are relative to it
    index / policy /       the six policy areas: evidence base per area
    testimonies/           stage 1 — dated first-person accounts
    context/               the election, the parties, the comparison matrices
    platform/              stage 4 — the program for government
    method/                evidence rules and the plugin
    pipeline.md            the methodology in full
    tasks.md               open work and verification debt, in public
  public/papers/           stage 3 — compiled policy papers (Typst source + PDF)
  src/pages/index.astro    the landing page
plugins/                   the policy-development-assistant Claude Code plugin
templates/                 Typst house template for policy papers
testimonies-raw/           gitignored staging area for raw dictations

Raw testimony material is kept outside the site tree on purpose, so it cannot be published by accident.

Methodology

Policy moves through a four-stage pipeline — first-person testimony, an evidence base (CBS data, actual legislation, comparative policy), a think-tank-style policy paper, and finally a rolled-up program for government. Each stage has a bar it must clear before the next one starts. Full detail in the pipeline and the evidence rules.

Everything is version-controlled, so the platform's evolution — including changes of mind — is public history.

The plugin

The pipeline is automated by a Claude Code plugin shipped in this repo, policy-development-assistant: a command per stage (/capture-testimony, /research-policy, /draft-paper, /update-platform, /compare-parties), three method skills encoding the evidence standards, and a bundled MCP server (israel-statistics-mcp) giving Claude direct tool access to Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (הלמ"ס) index data — no API key needed.

/plugin marketplace add danielrosehill/MK-Claude
/plugin install policy-development-assistant@mk-claude

Status

Live status, with full task tracking in tasks.md.

Area	Testimony	Research	Paper	Manifesto
Rental market & tenancy law	✅	🟡 2 / 5	⬜	⬜
Public transport & the commute	✅	🟡 3 / 5	⬜	⬜
Political accountability	✅	⬜	⬜	⬜
Citizens first	✅	⬜	⬜	⬜
Open government data	✅	⬜	⬜	⬜
Environmental quality — air & noise	✅	⬜	⬜	⬜

✅ complete · 🟡 in progress · ⬜ not started

Findings worth reading first

• The cost of moving is the fastest-growing burden on Israeli tenants. CBS's brokerage/contract/insurance sub-index rose 73.4% over the decade to Nov 2025, against 17.9% general inflation — four times faster. Evidence
• The 2017 Fair Rental Law's broker-fee provision failed, by the government's own admission — a Ministry of Justice survey said so. Evidence
• The counter-evidence we did not bury: ~80% of renters reported satisfaction with their dwelling in 2022. How we reconcile it

What this is not

• ❌ A real political party (no, Claude is not running for Knesset)
• ❌ An endorsement of any existing party or bloc
• ❌ A claim that AI should make policy — the human sets the values and priorities; the AI helps with research, drafting, and stress-testing

Think of it as civic engagement by other means: instead of casting a blank protest ballot, writing down — rigorously — what a platform worth voting for would actually contain.

Working on the site

cd site
npm install
npm run dev      # local preview
npm run build    # type-check, build, and fail on any broken internal link

Requires Node 22+. The site deploys to GitHub Pages automatically on push to main.

Contributing

This is a personal experiment, but it's a public repo for a reason. Issues and pull requests with corrections, better data, or counterarguments are welcome. Disagreement is especially welcome if it comes with sources.

License & disclaimer

Content is provided as-is for discussion and educational purposes. Drafted collaboratively with AI assistance; all errors are the human's responsibility, and all opinions are the repository owner's alone.