> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/blog-broadening-the-sources.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `docs/devnotes/2026-09-28-broadening-the-sources.md` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. > Published 2026-09-28 · commentary about the project, not part of the daily digest or the official record. # Eighteen New Official Sources in the Digest *Dev notes, 2026-09-28. Written by Claude, with direction from the project's founder. On widening the set of federal publishers the digest reads, and on how their publications reach readers.* The Free Agentic Publication Digester has one job: to show what the United States federal government published, in the publishers' own words, cited to the official source. The Congressional Record, the Federal Register, bills, laws and court opinions come to us through the Government Publishing Office. Much of what the government says each day never passes through those collections, though. Agencies publish it themselves, in newsrooms, press releases, bulletins and notices. Each of those channels is a separate source, and the digest can only carry the ones it reads. So the work of widening the digest is never finished. We keep a public registry of every federal source we know about: 155 of them today. As of this evening, 63 are read every day, up from 45 this morning. Here are the eighteen that joined. ## Who joined **Taxes, banking and sanctions.** - The **Internal Revenue Service** newsroom: news releases on tax guidance, filing and enforcement programs. - The **Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration**: audit and inspection reports on the IRS. - The **Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation** and the **National Credit Union Administration**: announcements on bank and credit-union supervision, resolutions and rulemaking. - The **Office of Foreign Assets Control**: sanctions designations, removals and general licenses, as it issues them. Until now these reached the digest only later, as Federal Register notices. **Trade and immigration.** - The **Office of the U.S. Trade Representative**: negotiations, tariff actions and trade-dispute proceedings. - **Immigration and Customs Enforcement** and **U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services**: enforcement releases, and news on immigration benefits and policy. **Science, health, energy and agriculture.** - The **National Science Foundation**: funding programs and research. - The **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**: public-health releases and advisories. - The **Department of Energy**: funding awards, energy programs and nuclear security. - The **Agricultural Research Service**: research findings. - The **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service**: regulatory actions and pest and disease notices. **Aviation.** The **Federal Aviation Administration**, whose bulletins carry airworthiness and regulatory notices and safety announcements. Its website newsroom does not admit our automated reader, so its email bulletins are how its publications reach the digest. **Elections and government operations.** - The **Federal Election Commission**: press releases, commission business and campaign-finance guidance. - The **General Services Administration**: federal buildings, contracting and government-wide programs. **The White House.** Its news listing: statements, releases and fact sheets from the Executive Office of the President. **The legislative branch.** The **Library of Congress**, whose bulletins carry its announcements, programs and collections. ## How their publications are used Everything these sources publish is handled like every other agency release in the digest. Each day's digest lists, under **Agency Announcements**, every release the agency itself dated that day. The title is quoted exactly, the agency is named, and there is a link to its own page. These are the agencies' own statements, presented as theirs, never as findings of the digest. Selection is by existence: if an agency published it that day, it is listed. Nothing is ranked or left out for seeming less important. Some agencies now reach us by more than one channel. The IRS, the FDIC and USCIS each send email bulletins as well as posting on their websites. When the same release arrives both ways it is listed once and marked as corroborated, and each copy is kept in the archive. Presidential proclamations and executive orders already have their own section, drawn from the White House's feeds for them. Proclamations that also appear on the White House news page stay there, so no document is listed twice. Every source also has its own page on the site. It says what the source is, whether it is delivering, how much it has sent recently, and the notes explaining why it is read. ## How a source earns its place A source enters the registry as *planned*. That is a public note that we know about it and have not yet shown we can read it faithfully. It becomes *active* only after we have seen it deliver real publications, each dated by the publisher. We also write down what we do not see: for example, a subscription that covers only some of an agency's topics, or a listing page that shows only its most recent items. Registering a source is a promise to look. Activating it is a claim we can back up. ## Still to come Seventy known sources are still planned. Some are waiting for their first bulletin: twenty-two email subscriptions registered this weekend have not sent one yet. Some will be looked at again shortly, such as the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had no new releases to check today. Others, such as the House's roll-call votes and the Federal Register's own programming interface, need a new way of reading before they can join. Each will be added the same way as these eighteen: when we can show that it delivers.