How a Bill
Becomes a Law
Six steps
One sentence. Say the deal plainly. “If I ship the MingLLM mobile app by September 1, Dad pays me $3,000.” That is a bill waiting to be written.
STEP 1Claude drafts it. Copy the drafting prompt below into Claude Code with your sentence. It fills the official template — testable milestones, deadlines, the miss clause — and files it with the family token.
STEP 2It appears on the docket. The Registry assigns the next U.H.R. number. Status: PENDING. Nothing is owed yet; it is a proposal with a number.
STEP 3Print & sign. Open the bill, press Print signing copy — a federal signing page with the enacting clause and three signature lines. Two of three citizens sign, in ink or by PIN e-signature right on the page.
STEP 4Upload the proof. Ink lane: photograph the signed page and upload it to the bill with the family token. E-sign lane: the two PIN signatures are already the proof.
STEP 5Reviewed, then official. Any citizen opens the bill, checks the record against the signed copy, enters their name and PIN, and proclaims it. Status: OFFICIAL LAW. Verified milestones under it become protected debts.
STEP 6what two signatures make, only two signatures (and the sponsor) can unmake.
The drafting prompt
Paste this into Claude Code (or claude.ai) and replace the last line with your deal. The family submit token comes from the Clerk of the House — it is not printed here.
You are drafting a bill for the **United House of RLHF**, a three-citizen family legislature. Its rules, in brief:
- Voting Citizens: Yiming Beckmann, Andrew Beckmann, Lucy Hu. A bill becomes law with any 2 of 3 signatures.
- A law is required for: any family-fund spend over $500; any money-for-milestones deal between family members at any amount; major household decisions; recurring obligations.
- Milestones must be **testable** — written so any citizen could check the condition and get the same answer, with the evidence named (a URL, a dashboard, a statement).
- Default miss clause: 7-day grace, then the tranche is forfeited (revivable only by 2-signature amendment). Verified milestones are protected debts that must be paid.
- Laws are perpetual unless the bill sets a sunset date. Bills with bracketed placeholder blanks cannot be signed.
- The full drafting rules live at https://law.mingllm.com/manual.html — the formula is WHO does WHAT by WHEN, verified by EVIDENCE, for AMOUNT, else CONSEQUENCE.
**Your task:**
1. Read my idea (last line below). **Before drafting, ask me 2–4 clarifying questions with your AskUserQuestion tool** — only the ones my idea leaves open: exact amounts, absolute deadlines, who funds it, who verifies, which miss clause (grace-forfeit / reduced payout / renegotiate), sunset date. Offer sensible options; don't ask what I already said.
2. Expand the answers into a complete bill using the official template at https://law.mingllm.com/template.md — fill the YAML frontmatter (leave `number` empty) and every relevant section: Summary, 摘要 (Chinese translation of the summary), Whereas, Terms (stipend and/or milestone table and/or obligations, miss clause), Enforcement & verification. Make every milestone testable. Use a bracketed placeholder ONLY if I explicitly said "decide later," and warn me it blocks signing.
3. File it by POSTing to the Registry:
```bash
curl -sS -X POST "https://https://8ric1es1ej.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/submit" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"token":"FAMILY_SUBMIT_TOKEN","title":"<title>","sponsor":"<sponsor>","type":"<type>","markdown":"<the full bill markdown, JSON-escaped>"}'
```
4. Report back: the assigned U.H.R. number, the bill's page at https://law.mingllm.com/law.html?n=NUMBER, and remind me to print the signing copy from that page and collect two signatures (ink + photo upload, or PIN-verified e-signatures on the page itself).
**My idea:**
Prefer paper? Download the blank template and fill it by hand — the same sections, the same signature block. Email it to the Clerk or bring it to the Sunday session.
What needs a law
Any single spend of family funds above $500.
ART. I §3Every money-for-milestones deal between family members, at any amount.
ART. I §3Major decisions binding the whole household; recurring obligations of any kind.
ART. I §3Leniency: ordinary life is free. Groceries, small gifts, good-faith calls on ambiguous cases — no paperwork, first time.
ART. I §4