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No. 003Data, v1.0, opened 04/02/2026

The Bill

Live tracking of what the tariffs and the Iran war are doing to prices, followed downstream to a US household's bill.

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Built with Opus 4.6, Opus 5.5, Opus 5

1What is real

  • 1Daily ship counts through six straitsIMF PortWatchPer IMF terms
  • 2Crude, fuel, jobs, CPI and fiscal seriesEIA, FRED, BLS, Treasury, CBOUS government data, public domain
  • 3Euro-area comparison seriesEurostat / ECBFree reuse per agency terms
  • 4CoastlinesNatural EarthPublic domain

2How it was built

101 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 4.637
  • Opus 5.526
  • Opus 525
  • Fable 5.110
  • Opus 4.73

3Related files

No. 004v1.0A Quiet AlmanacNo. 001v1.0GardenSyncNo. 011v1.0Sounding Atlas

Colophon

Each file here started as a question about whether something could be built: a mechanism, a plateau, an ecosystem, an orbit. They were built with Claude Code and kept with their sources, their status and the models that wrote them. Copy it, pass it on.