Mission — Portland FY 2025-26 Budget Doc Tree
This tree exists so an AI agent (or a curious human) can navigate the 1,700-page Portland FY 2025-26 Budget Dev Docs PDF without loading the whole thing into a model. The raw PDF is ~1.5M+ tokens; a well-indexed tree lets a question-answerer traverse only the sub-tree it needs, usually a few KB.
Navigation contract
- Start at
INDEX.md. It is kept short (< 200 lines). - Every INDEX.md lists its children with page ranges and direct PDF deep-links.
- Every leaf note cites its source PDF pages in the body and in front matter.
- To verify any claim: click the "PDF pp. N-M" link — it opens the original PDF at that page in Preview, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Acrobat.
- To see the raw extracted text a leaf was built from, click the "raw: 412 · 413 · ..." page links.
File kinds
INDEX.md— a map, not content. Short, scannable, always links to children.<name>.md— a leaf section holding raw extracted text plus source citations.<name>-part-N.md— a chunk of a long leaf, split so each file stays under ~8K tokens.
Provenance
All content is derived mechanically from the PDF. No human has rewritten text. Stage 5 enrichment (if present) adds a visually distinct ## TL;DR block with per-bullet page citations; raw text below is untouched.
If you don't trust a summary, the raw extracted text and the PDF itself are always one click away.