A skill for AI assistants that answers questions about AI, democracy, public-sector innovation, data and collective intelligence from what The GovLab, Reboot Democracy (rebootdemocracy.ai) and InnovateUS (innovate-us.org) have published, and cites the original pages.
Download: govlab-open-corpus.zip
- Claude (all plans): turn on Code execution and file creation under Settings → Capabilities, then upload the zip under Customize → Skills.
- ChatGPT (Business, Enterprise, Edu): Skills → Create → Upload from your computer. On Plus or Pro, create a GPT instead: paste
SKILL.mdinto its instructions and add the files inreferences/as knowledge. - Gemini (Skills are rolling out from October 13, 2026): create a skill from
SKILL.mdand add the files inreferences/. - GitHub Copilot (coding agent, CLI, VS Code agent mode): copy the
govlab-open-corpusfolder into.github/skills/in a repository or into~/.copilot/skills/.
| Source | Entries | Dates | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reboot Democracy blog posts | 357 | 2023-06 – 2026-10 | blog-posts.md |
| Reboot Democracy weekly news digests | 116 | 2024-01 – 2026-10 | news-digests.md |
| InnovateUS workshops | 370 (290 with recordings) | 2021-12 – 2026-12 | workshops.md |
| InnovateUS courses | 10 | courses.md | |
| InnovateUS news, research and resources | 55 | 2023-06 – 2026-09 | innovateus-articles.md |
| GovLab case studies | 346 | 2016-01 – 2022-11 | govlab-case-studies.md |
| GovLab publications and reports | 90 | 2012-12 – 2026-04 | govlab-publications.md |
| GovLab and Burnes Center projects and initiatives | 176 | govlab-projects.md | |
| GovLab Smarter Crowdsourcing and City Challenges | 53 | 2016-08 – 2023-08 | govlab-crowdsourcing.md |
| GovLab courses, lectures, worksheets and tools | 161 (63 with recordings) | 2017-10 – 2020-06 | govlab-courses-and-tools.md |
| GovLab and Burnes Center lectures and interviews | 175 (138 with recordings) | 2018-09 – 2026-10 | govlab-videos.md |
| GovLab blog posts, 2019 onwards | 243 | 2019-01 – 2026-09 | govlab-blog-2019-onwards.md |
| GovLab blog posts, 2015 to 2018 | 386 | 2015-01 – 2018-12 | govlab-blog-2015-2018.md |
| GovLab blog posts, 2012 to 2014 | 519 | 2012-09 – 2014-12 | govlab-blog-2012-2014.md |
Every entry links to its page and carries a short teaser, usually the one shown on that page. Reboot Democracy and InnovateUS entries update automatically, within the hour, when new articles, workshops and courses are published.