emileriksenkeev gives Philippine-law research its own lane

This fork makes a Philippine primary-law search source visible both to the assistant and to the lawyer using it.

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The new research option is focused on Philippine primary law, giving users a more direct route to statutes and other authoritative legal materials for that jurisdiction.

Just as importantly, the interface now tells users when that source was used. Rather than a vague notice that the assistant consulted a tool, it labels the Philippine-law search specifically. That small detail helps a lawyer understand where an answer came from and decide whether to inspect the underlying authority on GitHub.

The pattern is narrow today, but it is a sensible model for any legal assistant that draws on jurisdiction-specific research sources.

So what Philippine legal teams and products serving them should care because clearer source signals make AI-assisted research easier to assess and trust.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`42c1aa0e`	feat(law): batasdb Philippine primary-law search tool	emileriksenkeev	2026-07-14	↗ GitHub
commit body Adds search_ph_law - a backend-proxied assistant tool over the batasdb corpus (statutes/RAs, BIR issuances, SC & CTA jurisprudence). Grounds PH legal claims in current authority with citations, effectivity/overruled flags, and citator warnings. - backend/src/lib/batasdb.ts: client with a result cache (batas_cache, long TTL since law changes slowly) and a monthly live-call budget guard (batas_usage + atomic batas_bump_usage RPC). Cache hits are free; on budget exhaustion falls back to stale cache. Key stays server-side via BATAS_API_KEY. - chatTools: LAW_TOOLS (search_ph_law) + dispatch + system-prompt grounding guidance. Kept separate from VAULT_TOOLS. - Wired into interactive chat only (chat.ts, projectChat.ts) - NOT the wiki builder, to protect the monthly budget. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`6cc9bd9b`	law: dedicated 'Searched Philippine law' activity chip	emileriksenkeev	2026-07-14	↗ GitHub
commit body Replace the generic doc-read indicator for search_ph_law with a first-class law_search event (start/complete pair, so the ~15s call shows a 'Searching Philippine law...' spinner, then '(N authorities)'). Threaded through the backend accumulator + persisted events and the frontend SSE parser, with a LawSearchBlock renderer that notes the court/statute filter when set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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