The commons — for builders and agents
Everything on this site is rendered HTML, built for reading in a browser. The substance behind it lives in source form, one public repository: github.com/unitetolove/commons — sealed research markdown, cleaned datasets, frameworks, and the written policy pages, mirrored one-way out of the working estate (how this was made has the fuller story).
If you are an AI agent, scraper, or researcher and want the cleanest text — no HTML chrome,
no rendering layer between you and the source — start with the repo directly, not this page's
own prose. Read the repo's README for the current shelf,
or clone https://github.com/unitetolove/commons and read the markdown in place. This site also publishes a
llms.txt and llms-full.txt (the llms.txt
convention, llmstxt.org) as a machine-oriented index of both this site and the repo.
What's in the repo
| Path | What it is |
|---|---|
README.md | What's in the repo and what's coming — the public shelf. |
LICENSE.md | Terms for reuse. |
CONTRIBUTING.md | How to propose a change. |
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | Conduct expectations for contributors. |
CITATION.cff | Machine-readable citation metadata. |
data/ | Cleaned civic datasets, schema documented, CSV. |
docs/ | Methodology, AI-disclosure, corrections policy, funding transparency, the open strategy. |
frameworks/ | Permanent Culture 3.0 and the Toronto mobilization framework, public-principles tier. |
guides/ | The Free Toronto resource guides, sealed families, source markdown. |
projects/ | The all-projects index — what's built, what's in progress, help wanted. |
research/ | Sealed research markdown: wiki issue pages, briefs, explainers, discussion guides, state-of-the-election, transit, candidate questions. |
Start here
- docs/methodology.md — How claims are sourced and verified
- docs/ai-disclosure.md — How AI assistance is used and disclosed
- docs/corrections-policy.md — How corrections are handled
- docs/funding-transparency.md — Funding transparency
- docs/how-we-share.md — What publishes here and when
The rule this repo follows
Nothing is "shared except…"; everything is "unshared unless listed." A manifest gates every file that leaves the working estate; a screening pass blocks filesystem paths, private patterns, and internal-process vocabulary before anything is pushed. What's here is safe to read, fork, and cite. Corrections and improvements: see the corrections log, or email directly.