Sloth-ninja makes UK legislation research easier to interrogate

A dedicated research page turns citation lookups and title searches into a clearer route from statutory text to legal analysis.

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Sloth-ninja has added a legislation research surface for finding UK Acts and statutory instruments either from a natural-language citation or by title. Searches are submitted deliberately rather than firing on every keystroke, a sensible choice where broader title searches can take time.

Citation lookup finds a specific provision and shows its text, scope and relevant effects.
Title search lets users browse matching legislation, then open a selected provision in detail.
Amendment warnings remain visible when published legislation may lag outstanding changes, rather than presenting an apparently settled text.
Continue in Assistant carries the selected provision into the chat for follow-up analysis.

This will matter to legal teams that need a quick route into primary legislation without losing sight of whether the text may still be catching up with amendments.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`0892e306`	WS7: Legislation panel (legislation.gov.uk)	sloth-ninja	2026-07-20	↗ GitHub
commit body Research › Legislation page + /legislation backend routes, per the approved WS7 mock-up. One prominent input with two modes (look up a natural UK citation, or search by Act/SI title), example chips teaching the citation grammar, master-detail split for title search, and a provision view reusing assistant/LegislationPanel with the amber outstanding-amendments band and a per-effect list beneath it. Backend: new src/routes/legislation.ts (both requireAuth, per-handler try/catch), thin wrappers over the tested lib/legislation.ts - GET /legislation/search?title= → {matches}; GET /legislation/lookup?citation= → lookupCitation. No key gating (open OGL API). A failed lookup is a domain result: HTTP 200 {resolved:false, citation, reason}; only unexpected throws yield a fixed generic 502 (raw errors logged server-side only). Success payload uses the same snake_case field names the chat tool emits so LegislationPanel props align. Mounted behind the existing researchLimiter. Frontend: new (pages)/legislation/page.tsx (submit-on-enter only - no search-as-you-type, title search can take 3-6s). mikeApi searchLegislation / lookupLegislation. Sidebar "Legislation" (Landmark) added to the Research group between Company Search and Citation Checker. Tests: 7 route-mapping tests (vi.mock("../lib/legislation")). Backend tsc + vitest 140/140 green; frontend tsc clean; lint at the main baseline (34/78); evals:smoke 4/4 from the main checkout. CLAUDE.md module map + BUILD_LOG entry updated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`f863815f`	WS7: fix SI search results dead-ending on lookup	sloth-ninja	2026-07-20	↗ GitHub
commit body selectMatch resolved every chosen search result by its bare title. Acts parse from a bare title but a whole statutory instrument has no title-only parse branch, so SI results dead-ended on the "could not parse" card. Resolve SI-typed matches by their parseable "SI {year}/{number}" citation instead; Acts still resolve by title, and the title stays the human label for the Assistant prefill. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`00869878`	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into ws7-legislation-panel	sloth-ninja	2026-07-20	↗ GitHub
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