Contributing to Neon Law Navigator

Five ways to contribute

Pick the path that fits the time and craft you have:

1. Improve the product repository (authorized staff).
2. Add a fillable government PDF.
3. Tell the team what you learned.
4. Join a show-and-tell or presentation.
5. Use Neon Law Navigator and report what breaks.

Contribute to the product repository

The whole stack is written in Rust in a private monorepo. Authorized staff open issues and pull requests. The most useful corpus contributions are specific ones:

• Add a missing legal template. Add a government PDF form. Improve a field map. Add a test that locks a workflow to the law it implements.

Add a fillable government PDF

Government forms are one of the best places to contribute because the path is concrete. A form-backed template lives under templates/forms/..., names the official origin_url, asks its intake questions from the shared question bank in store/seeds/Question.yaml, and maps answers onto the PDF's AcroForm fields through either a .fields manifest or a .fields.toml map. The workflow still passes through staff_review before the filled packet can be signed or filed.

Why this matters

A corpus the whole community improves is how routine legal work gets cheap enough to reach the people priced out of it today.