A Maximum New York project

Research Brief Generator

Source-grounded policy briefs on New York City and New York State, on demand.

New York governance runs on three layers: legislation, agency rule-making, and case law. Most coverage skips two of them. Research Brief Generator generates a research-grade prompt that pulls from all three — primary bill text, hearing transcripts, comptroller audits, NYCRR/RCNY rules, and active litigation — and renders the result as a printable, footnote-linked HTML brief.

LL 64/2023 (EFT) CityFHEPS 90-day rule HAVP / S.72 Vincent v. Adams
Outputs a research prompt for Claude. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Your research prompt


  

    
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How to use this

  
    
    
  1. Type a NYC or NYS policy question into the box above — a bill ID (Int 0704-2022), a law (LL 64/2023), a topic ("source-of-income discrimination enforcement"), or a court case (Vincent v. Adams) all work.
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  2. Click Generate brief prompt. The page produces a self-contained research prompt that embodies the methodology used to build the example brief linked below.
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  3. Click Copy to clipboard and paste into Claude Code (terminal) or Claude.ai. Claude will pull from the cipher legislative graph, official Senate / Assembly pages, RCNY / NYCRR rule-makings, NYS Comptroller audits, IBO reports, and case law — then assemble the brief into a single durable HTML file at ~/projects/<slug>/index.html with all source documents saved alongside.
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  4. The brief includes a floating TOC, a print button, hover-tooltip footnotes for every named person, expandable verbatim transcript blocks, and an administrative-and-case-law section.
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    If you have Claude Code installed locally, you can also invoke the underlying skill directly with /ny-policy-brief <your topic>.