🤝🔷 A Luke × Claude, Codex and Grok build. Created by Luke Nathan Hayes (auraofintelligence) with Claude (Opus 5.5) on 30 October 2026, and built on from November 2026 with Codex and Grok, each in the lanes Luke directs.
Every place an Australian passport holder might visit, vetted with the same simple, repeatable patterns: so local laws aren't broken by accident, and local culture is met on its own terms.
Nine pages on GitHub Pages: home, places, a page for every place, patterns, upcoming, advisories, queue, how it works and a site map linking the related projects. Each page leads with a large, openly licensed photograph (credits on the site map). A place page shows a photograph of that place, or of somewhere inside it with a label saying so, or none: 316 places have one so far, all awaiting review. Places whose imagery belongs to a community's own cultural authority get no automatic photo. The site reads the same data the scripts and routines write, so it updates with every commit. Preview locally with python -m http.server in this folder, then open index.html.
- A place tree that keeps growing. 248 countries, territories and separately travelled jurisdictions form the spine. Underneath sit every country's states, provinces and regions (3,429 added from ISO 3166-2 by
scripts/import_regions.py), Australia's 2,088 states, councils, wards and electorates, the 50 US states and DC, plus islands, island groups, nations and permit zones such as Rapa Nui, Bougainville, the Torres Strait Islands and the APY Lands. That's 5,864 places today, with no upper limit. Each country gets its own folder, so a country broken down to council level is just a bigger folder. - Eighteen patterns. Each is one question asked the same way everywhere: advice level, entry, activities, special permit zones, health entry, local law, culture and protocol, languages, affection and relationships, births and family support, psychoactive substances, culture cycles, seasons and visitor flow, the year ahead, consular reach, money, works and purpose, and visa preparation. See patterns/README.md. Adding a pattern is one file.
- Laws and protocols that stack. A visitor is bound by every level at once. A brief for Minjerribah shows Australia, then Queensland, then Redland City, then the island, each with its own laws and protocols, or "not yet checked".
- A special permit zone scan. It walks down into any flagged zone and up to the country, so a national visa is never mistaken for permission to enter a zone. Each permit's lead time is counted back from the travel date to give a latest safe start.
- Feedstock from your other work. GAJRA Earth Ahead's upcoming AI governance events and open doors (62 entries, 31 doors on 30 October 2026) are mapped onto the tree daily. Briefs and the window watch show which fall before or during a trip. See data/feeds/README.md.
- Embassies both ways. Consular reach for all 179 Smartraveller destinations is read from each page's consular contacts: 87 with an Australian post in place, 74 served from a neighbour (sometimes with an honorary consul in place), and 18 through Canada's partner arrangement. Each country's own embassies and consulates in Australia (520 offices for 168 places, from the reviewed DFAT Protocol directory in aura-horn-torus) show on its page as where to apply for a visa or ask for a rule in writing. See
data/missions/. - Honest ages. Records carried from the earlier Visa and Activity Atlas keep their original dates, so the queue knows exactly what's stale.
Two modes. Baseline runs all year and maps each place's laws, seasons, culture cycles and year. Window mode tightens everything for declared trips.
| Job | Runs | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily advisories | 06:00 every day | GitHub Actions | Smartraveller levels for every destination; opens an issue when one changes |
| Weekly source watch | Monday 05:00 | GitHub Actions | Checks every cited page is still there and whether its text changed |
| Daily feeds | 08:45 every day | GitHub Actions | GAJRA Earth Ahead events and open doors, mapped to places |
| Monthly calendars | 1st of the month | GitHub Actions | Public holidays for this year and next, for the 204 places the dataset covers; place photos; consular reach for every destination |
| Round 1 build | Daily, by hand | Claude and Grok sessions | Luke runs Claude and Grok each day until the local, state and national data for round 1 is complete. The Claude scheduled routines (place passes, cycles, window watch) were switched off on 4 November 2026. |
All times are Brisbane time.
Window phases, from config/cadence.json:
| Phase | Starts | Age limit for any record |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | 90 days out, or earlier when a permit's lead time needs it | 30 days |
| Countdown | 30 days out | 7 days |
| Imminent | 7 days out | 2 days |
| In place | During the trip | 1 day (law, zones, calendars, advice) |
| Debrief | Up to 14 days after | Record what was learned |
The Actions treat every place the same, so the public history never shows where a trip is heading. Travel windows live in private/, which git ignores.
From docs/STATUS.md, generated by scripts/status_report.py on 1 November 2026. 1,105 of 5,864 places have at least one record. Coverage of the 247 countries and territories outside Australia:
| Pattern | Countries and territories |
|---|---|
| Entry | 247 (100%): 206 official, 38 signal, 3 operational |
| Activities | 247 (100%), but 72% of the 3,705 activity checks still say "confirm in writing" |
| Languages | 244 (99%) |
| Money | 243 (98%) |
| Seasons and visitor flow | 241 (98%) |
| Births and family support | 236 (96%) |
| Health entry | 235 (95%) |
| Consular reach | 229 (93%) |
| Affection and relationships | 227 (92%) |
| Local law | 177 (72%) |
| Psychoactive substances | 175 (71%) |
| Culture cycles | 168 (68%) |
| Culture and protocol | 92 (37%) |
| Year ahead | 30 (12%) |
| Special permit zones | 6 countries, plus 4 states and regions |
| Works and purpose | 0 of 26 |
"Confirm in writing" means no official page could be read that day; each record names who to ask. States and regions are mostly still "not yet checked" apart from languages and holidays. STATUS.md lists the gaps, biggest first, and known source problems. Run notes are in docs/runs/, and handover notes in docs/ACTIVITY-LOG.md.
python scripts/brief.py cl/rapa-nui --start 2027-03-01 --activities tourism,filming
python scripts/due.py
python scripts/validate.py
To declare a trip, copy examples/windows.example.json to private/windows.json. To add a place, see data/places/README.md.
Everything is Python standard library: no installs.
robots.txt documents scoped search and training preferences: search crawlers (including OAI-SearchBot and Claude-SearchBot) are allowed; training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) are not. sitemap.xml lists the real public pages, including a page per country, territory and checked place, and llms.txt is a voluntary guide; scripts/build_site.py rewrites both. GitHub project Pages can't set the origin-root crawler policy, so .github/robots-root-snippet.txt is a scoped addition for the account-root robots.txt when authorised. The snippet was merged into the account-root policy on 1 November 2026. Discovery grants no additional reuse or AI-training rights.
Strange But True Public Source Licence. Non-commercial use is welcome with credit; commercial rights are reserved.
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