Improve Month Ahead: Add strategic legislative forecasting, pipeline tracking, and trend analysis

[pethers]

📋 Issue Type

Enhancement — Extend Month Ahead articles with strategic legislative forecasting and trend analysis

🎯 Objective

Enhance scripts/news-types/month-ahead.ts to go beyond basic calendar event listing into strategic legislative forecasting. Add deeper document analysis, committee pipeline tracking, budget cycle awareness, and cross-party legislative momentum analysis.

📊 Current State

• File: scripts/news-types/month-ahead.ts (291 lines — smallest of all 8 article types)
• REQUIRED_TOOLS: get_calendar_events, search_dokument (conditional fallback)
• Gap: Month ahead articles are calendar-driven but lack strategic depth — they list events but don't forecast legislative outcomes, track committee pipelines, or identify emerging policy trends
• Impact: Monthly previews read like expanded calendars rather than strategic intelligence briefs

🚀 Desired State

• Month ahead articles include strategic legislative forecasts
• Committee report pipeline tracking (what's coming through which committee)
• Budget cycle awareness (flag critical fiscal deadlines)
• Cross-party legislative momentum (which parties are pushing which policies)
• Historical comparison (same month in previous parliamentary terms)
• Identification of policy convergence/divergence trends
• Enhanced template with "Strategic Outlook" and "Legislative Pipeline" sections

🔧 Implementation Approach

1. Add legislative pipeline tracking (~100 lines)

// Track propositions and motions in committee pipeline
const pendingBetankanden = await mcpClient.call('get_betankanden', {
  rm: currentRiksmote,
  limit: 20
});
const pendingPropositioner = await mcpClient.call('get_propositioner', {
  rm: currentRiksmote,
  limit: 15
});

• Map propositions/motions to their committee processing stage
• Estimate when key items will reach plenary voting

2. Add trend analysis (~80 lines)

// Analyze motion volume and topic distribution
const recentMotions = await mcpClient.call('get_motioner', {
  rm: currentRiksmote,
  limit: 50
});

• Identify which policy domains are most active
• Track party-by-party legislative activity levels
• Flag unusual patterns (surge in motions, committee bottlenecks)

3. Budget cycle integration (~40 lines)

• Detect proximity to key fiscal milestones (spring/autumn budget, economic forecasts)
• Highlight finance committee deadlines
• Flag EU-related fiscal coordination events

4. Update REQUIRED_TOOLS

Add newly integrated tools: get_betankanden, get_propositioner, get_motioner

5. Enhanced article templates

• Add "Strategic Legislative Outlook" section
• Add "Committee Pipeline" summary
• Add "Policy Trends" analysis
• Update all 14 language templates

🤖 Recommended Agent

code-quality-engineer — TypeScript implementation extending the smallest article generator

✅ Acceptance Criteria

• Legislative pipeline tracking implemented (committee → plenary flow)
• Trend analysis identifies active policy domains
• Budget cycle awareness flags fiscal milestones
• REQUIRED_TOOLS updated to include newly integrated tools
• Article templates include "Strategic Outlook" and "Pipeline" sections
• All 14 language templates updated
• Prospective tone maintained (forecasting, not reporting)
• Article quality validation passes
• No regression in existing month-ahead generation
• File grows from 291 lines to ~500 lines (proportional to other article types)

📚 References

• File: scripts/news-types/month-ahead.ts (entire file — smallest article type)
• MCP Tools: get_betankanden, get_propositioner, get_motioner, get_calendar_events
• Pattern reference: scripts/news-types/weekly-review.ts (full enrichment pipeline example)
• Content generators: scripts/data-transformers/content-generators.ts
• Policy analysis: scripts/data-transformers/policy-analysis.ts