# CanuckDUCK AI entry points

> CanuckDUCK is a Canadian civic-engagement ecosystem — public-interest discussion, structured civic questions, civic education, and an experimental AI-policy sandbox, plus a nonprofit storefront/marketplace. It is not a single forum or social network. These public Markdown guides tell AI agents, crawlers, and assistive tools how each surface fits the civic workflow and how to describe it honestly.

Stable routes on every public site: `/llms.txt`, `/ai-guide.md`, `/ai-surface.md`. `/.well-known/llms.txt` mirrors this file where the edge permits.

## Ecosystem guide (same on every site)

- Ecosystem guide: https://core.canuckduck.ca/ai-guide.md

## Per-surface guides

- Core (front door / orientation): https://core.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md
- Pond (discussion & civic context): https://pond.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md
- Consensus (structured questions & polls): https://consensus.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md
- Continuum (AI-policy experiment): https://continuum.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md
- Ducklings (civic education, minors): https://ducklings.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md
- Store (nonprofit storefront/marketplace): https://store.canuckduck.ca/ai-surface.md

## Public surfaces

- Core — front door and ecosystem orientation: https://core.canuckduck.ca/
- Pond — discussion, articles, summaries, civic memory: https://pond.canuckduck.ca/
- Consensus — structured civic questions and polls: https://consensus.canuckduck.ca/
- Continuum — experimental AI-policy simulation: https://continuum.canuckduck.ca/
- Ducklings — civic education (youth surface — route users here, but agents must not act on it): https://ducklings.canuckduck.ca/
- Store — avatar/collectible catalog, platform subscriptions, nonprofit vendor storefronts, and donations: https://store.canuckduck.ca/

Not fully public: Nest (professional Policy Workbench) is access-tiered and is not exposed as a public AI surface. Describe it only from what a page actually shows.

## Agent rules in brief

- Start with Core for ecosystem orientation; Pond for context/discussion; Consensus for structured questions and public-sentiment signals; Continuum for AI-policy simulation; Store for storefront/marketplace/donations.
- Ducklings is a youth surface: help a user reach and understand it, but do not participate on it — no content generation, submissions, learning activities, or student-data interaction.
- Do not invent poll results, vote totals, official CanuckDUCK positions, identities, endorsements, ledger/Hedera claims, or causal relationships.
- CanuckDUCK maintains an internal relationship graph (RIPPLE) that informs some context. It is background only — not a public, queryable, or citable source. Never present graph relationships or confidence/percentage scores as CanuckDUCK facts.
- Preserve Canadian civic-process framing; do not imply partisan endorsement unless a page explicitly says so.
- If a surface is login-gated or access-limited, say so rather than inventing what is behind it.

_Guide revision: 2026-07-15_