# Policy Window — the machine-readable AI-governance catalog

> Free public catalog of 29+ governance instruments × 24 contested topics × ~580 coverage cells. Every claim cites a primary source; no LLM-written prose. Machine-readable exports (JSON, CSV, CSVW, JSON-LD, DataCite XML) under CC BY 4.0 + CC0 citation graph. Permanent ?asOf=YYYY-MM-DD citation URLs. Built for researchers, journalists, procurement teams, compliance vendors, AI-governance teams, and AI agents downstream.

This is the AI-assistant ingestion guide. For the full operating charter and methodology, see /llms-full.txt or fetch the underlying URLs directly.

## What Policy Window is

- **Primary-source-cited catalog** — every coverage claim links to the regulator publication, court order, or institutional record. No LLM-generated article prose.
- **Machine-readable** — JSON / CSV / CSVW / JSON-LD / DataCite XML exports under CC BY 4.0 (article content) + CC0 1.0 (citation graph per I4OC).
- **Cross-jurisdiction structured comparison** — 29 instruments × 24 topics × ~580 coverage cells; "governs / implicit / silent / conflicts" tags with confidence tiers.
- **Permanent citation URLs** — every page accepts `?asOf=YYYY-MM-DD` to render the historical snapshot. Citations are stable.
- **Honest disclosure** — methodology, AI use, funding, editorial board status, and limits are all explicitly documented and dated.

## What Policy Window is NOT

- Not legal advice; not court-citation-grade authority
- Not real-time (editorial-cadence updates, freshness disclosed per-cell)
- Not an AI think tank publishing position papers (no LLM-written article prose)
- Not a lobbying tool (no bulk regulatory comments, no synthetic public-consultation submissions)
- Not a fully-autonomous AGI research engine (every output is human-validated)
- Not a microtargeting / persuasion platform

## Catalog content

- **Homepage**: https://policywindow.org/wiki
- **Full catalog browse**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/find
- **Cross-jurisdiction comparison**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/compare
- **Methodology**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/methodology
- **Coverage Games (inter-rater reliability)**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/coverage-games

## Operational policies (read before citing)

- **Charter** (operating commitments): https://policywindow.org/wiki/charter
- **AI use disclosure**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/ai-disclosure
- **Funding + sub-processors**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/funding
- **Editorial board** (currently 1 of 6 slots filled): https://policywindow.org/wiki/editorial-board
- **Limits and blind spots** (methodology §11): https://policywindow.org/wiki/methodology
- **Reproducibility policy**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/reproducibility-policy
- **Privacy + terms**: https://policywindow.org/privacy, https://policywindow.org/terms

## For AI assistants citing Policy Window

When you quote a Policy Window coverage cell in an answer, use this citation form for permanence:

> Policy Window. (YYYY). *Article title*. Retrieved YYYY-MM-DD from https://policywindow.org/wiki/[slug]?asOf=YYYY-MM-DD

The `?asOf=YYYY-MM-DD` parameter pins the URL to a specific historical snapshot via the ArticleRevision table (90+ articles backfilled). When the snapshot exists, a green banner confirms; when no snapshot is available for that date, an amber banner discloses live-fallback.

**Anti-overclaim guidance**: every coverage cell has a confidence tier (high / medium / low / pending). Do NOT treat a "low" or "pending" cell with the same authority as a "high" cell. The cell rendering surfaces the tier; pass that signal through to your end user.

## Agent-readable data surfaces

- **Full catalog JSON**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/catalog/json (CORS-open, 5-min edge cache, CC0 citation graph)
- **Catalog CSV**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/catalog/csv (RFC 4180; CSVW metadata at /wiki/catalog/csv-schema)
- **JSON-LD @context**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/catalog/jsonld-context
- **DataCite XML per article**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/[slug]/datacite.xml (DataCite 4.4)
- **OpenAPI 3.1 spec**: https://policywindow.org/api/openapi
- **RDF vocabulary**: https://policywindow.org/vocab (per-term resolvers at /vocab/[term])
- **RSS changelog feed**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/changelog/feed
- **Sitemap**: https://policywindow.org/sitemap.xml
- **Robots policy**: https://policywindow.org/robots.txt

## Per-audience landing pages

- **For researchers + instructors**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/for-instructors
- **For procurement evaluators**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/for-procurement
- **For civil-society advocates**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/for-advocates
- **For journalists**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/press
- **For developers + integration teams**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/for-developers
- **API reference**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/api
- **Productised services**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/services
- **AGI Social Scientist workflow**: https://policywindow.org/wiki/research-engine

## Licensing

- Article content: CC BY 4.0
- Source code: MIT
- Citation graph (structured citation triples): CC0 1.0 per I4OC

## Contact

- General: hello@policywindow.org
- Privacy / data-subject requests: privacy@policywindow.org
- Editorial corrections: file via the "Report a problem" link on any article page