PolicyEngine/policyengine-api

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PolicyEngine's REST API for computing policy impacts.

Stars: 18
Forks: 33
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 73
Avg merge: 23h 40m
Merged PRs (30d): 22

Dominant language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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73 issues indexed so far

Track Stage 12 automatic result comparisons Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3841 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Remove UK constituency map coordinates from impact responses Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3823 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
API v2: report validations as an append-only, provenance-keyed resource on reports Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3818 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Evaluate and implement comprehensive API monitoring Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3816 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Define API behavior for outputs introduced by structural reforms Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3814 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Retry/backoff + friendly error mapping for simulation entrypoint 429s; cache the versions map Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3811 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Drop the orphaned analysis table via Alembic (follow-up to #3801) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3802 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
US production: /us/metadata returns 500 and state-region simulations fail with connection reset at the simulation gateway Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3797 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Remove deprecated district breakdown request flags Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3727 · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Migrate policyengine dep from 0.x to v4 (prereq for TRACE TRO emission) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3486 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Emit institutionally-signed TRACE TRO for every webapp simulation run Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3485 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Expose federal vs. state budgetary impact in compare.py Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3481 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Quarantine or fix test_utah hang and other known-broken tests on master Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3478 · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Add explicit codecov.yml policy to unblock admin-merge workflow Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3476 · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Audit remaining f-string/interpolated SQL and add CI guard Open

bug security

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3477 · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Security: gate Anthropic-backed simulation analysis with auth and quotas Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3397 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2026
Security: enforce ownership and auth on user profile and saved policy routes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3395 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2026
Security: protect simulation and report update routes from arbitrary writes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3396 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2026
Persist and return the resolved model/data release bundle in policyengine-api Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3393 · Opened Apr 11, 2026
Upgrade to Python 3.14 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2822 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2025
Better logs to help diagnose the frequent 502 errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2668 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Upgrade to Python 3.13 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2666 · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Add OpenAPI request examples and generate an importable Postman collection Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2614 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Expand live simulation integration coverage across US and UK Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2400 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Enable US subsampling with new Core fixes Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2322 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
Ensure US model always downloads datasets from HuggingFace Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2321 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
Add FTE impacts to labor supply and constituency outputs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2217 · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Improve LLM summary for SSI Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2098 · Opened Jan 10, 2025
API results do not match manual run Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2090 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2025
Refactor Metadata Handling to Avoid Duplication Between Backend and Frontend Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2078 · Opened Dec 31, 2024
AI microsimulation summary is flaky Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2077 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 28, 2024
Add authentication/authorization to the API Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2063 · 17 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 19, 2024
`user_profile.py` create operation is not atomic Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2058 · Opened Dec 17, 2024
Define structural reform and dynamic-variable support across API boundaries Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2052 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 10, 2024
More closely couple the API's loading bar with the calculations it's actually performing Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2001 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 21, 2024
Manage API infrastructure with terraform Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#2000 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2024
Add test that database is not local Open

good first issue

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1944 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 5, 2024
Create raft of tests for structural reforms Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1885 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Move from setup.py to pyproject.toml Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1747 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2024
Preserve policy ID when naming the policy Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1637 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Exclude households with negative earnings from baseline earnings amount for LSRs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1559 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 7, 2024
dpath.util DeprecationWarning Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1537 · 1 assignee · Opened May 24, 2024
Transparent Huge Pages creates latency and memory issues with Redis Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1536 · Opened May 24, 2024
overcommit_memory warning Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1535 · Opened May 24, 2024
Specify redis config Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1534 · Opened May 24, 2024
State level basic income fails Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1514 · Opened May 13, 2024
One-time error creating earnings variation graph under reform Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1475 · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Replace `WIDOW` with `SURVIVING_SPOUSE` in policy database Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1400 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2024
Generate household ID for each CPS and ECPS record Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1361 · Opened Mar 27, 2024
Add checkpointing for long-running computations Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1254 · Opened Feb 24, 2024

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