Here are some resources I use for my own research that could be useful for others.

Brazilian institutions reference

brazil-institutions is a dense, citation-backed reference on Brazilian legal and political institutions — courts, procedure, the Ministério Público, fiscal federalism, electoral system, procurement, corruption statutes, labor justice, and related topics. Designed to be read by both researchers and LLM agents.

It includes 36 topical files with inline statute and jurisprudence citations, a citation resolver (cite.py) that looks up any statute article or court case from a compact backtick citation, annotated legislation databases (STF decisions mapped to each CF article; TSE jurisprudence mapped to each Electoral Code article), and indices of STF, TSE, TST, and STJ súmulas. Released under CC BY 4.0.

Related tooling

• diarios — toolkit for Brazilian court and administrative data
• newsbr — Brazilian news collection
• llmkit — LLM extraction toolkit with caching and audit
• research-kit — Claude Code skills, conventions, and methodology docs for empirical research

GitHub

All public code is on github.com/hsigstad.