Regulation watch — EU textile & AI regulation tracker for fashion teams

What you get

A tracker and a skill that keep a team's record of the EU instruments touching a fashion or textile business — product rules and passports, labelling, environmental claims, waste, reporting, due diligence, the AI Act, data protection. You paste the text of an official page or newsletter; the assistant logs only what that text states, quotes the sentence behind every date and obligation, reports what changed since the last check, and writes the monthly note for the team. Nothing is filled from memory; what the source does not say is TBC with a question. Not legal advice. Runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Code; includes a Google Sheets script and an experimental n8n workflow.

Use it for

• Log an EU instrument from an official page or newsletter, with the verbatim excerpt behind each field
• Re-check an instrument against a newer source and get a 'what changed' table plus change-log lines
• Write the monthly regulation note for the team from the tracker alone
• Turn each obligation into yes/no impact questions for product, data, marketing and sourcing owners

What's inside

• SKILL.md — the skill: four modes (log, re-check, monthly note, impact questions), 20-column row format, self-checks, when to ask
• PROMPTS.md — Log · Re-check (what changed) · Monthly note · Impact questions · Handover prompts
• templates/regulation-watch.csv — the tracker with ten instruments pre-listed; status, dates and obligations left for your sources
• templates/change-log.csv — one line per changed field per re-check
• examples/recheck-example.md — a fictional instrument re-checked: what changed, updated row, monthly-note excerpt
• platforms/google-sheets/Code.gs — AI tools menu for Google Sheets: fill from the row's own excerpt, check the sheet
• platforms/n8n/eu-textile-regulation-tracker.workflow.json — experimental: fetch a source page weekly and run the re-check prompt
• platforms/claude-code/.claude/skills/regulation-watch/SKILL.md — Claude Code drop-in

Quick start

1. Unzip and open README.md.
2. Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills → upload SKILL.md. ChatGPT: paste platforms/chatgpt-instructions.md into a Project. Gemini: paste platforms/gemini-gem.md into a Gem. Claude Code: copy platforms/claude-code/.claude/ into your project. Google Sheets: see platforms/google-sheets/README.md.
3. Copy the text of an official page, paste the Log prompt from PROMPTS.md with its URL, and add the returned row to templates/regulation-watch.csv.

Preview — one prompt from the kit

Log one EU regulatory instrument into my tracker from the source below. Record ONLY what the text states; do not add anything from your own knowledge of the law — no dates, thresholds, article numbers or obligations that are not in the pasted text. Where the text is silent, write TBC.

Source URL: {{source_url}} Source text: {{source_text}}

Return one CSV row with exactly this header: instrument,short_name,topic,what_it_covers_for_fashion,status,official_journal_reference,adopted_on,applies_from,key_dates_stated,applies_to,product_scope,obligation_that_applies_to_us,source_excerpt,evidence_we_need,impact_for_us,next_action,owner,last_verified_on,source_url,notes

Rules: status = the words the source uses; dates ISO when a full date is given, otherwise as written; source_excerpt = the verbatim sentences behind status, dates, scope and obligation, separated by " | "; impact_for_us and next_action = TBC (our call); last_verified_on = today; if the source is a newsletter or press item, put "secondary source — confirm on the official page" in notes.

Then: (a) official or secondary source? (b) numbered open questions for anything left TBC. This is a record, not legal advice.