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+# Agent guide — docs/ (Active Inference Ontology)
+
+## Overview
+
+This directory holds the repository's documentation hub: the v2 source contract,
+generated-export contract, curation workflow and governance, release and archive
+provenance, SUMO integration scope, downstream integration, and the
+template-compatible publication manuscript. It is indexed by
+[`README.md`](README.md) and surfaces in the root [`README.md`](../README.md)
+and [`AGENTS.md`](../AGENTS.md).
+
+## Reading order (cold start)
+
+1. [`../AGENTS.md`](../AGENTS.md) — what this repo is, ground truth, commands.
+2. [`README.md`](README.md) — the documentation index (one row per topic).
+3. [`../ontology.source.json`](../ontology.source.json) is the only editable
+   ontology surface. `ontology.json`, the CSV, `site/index.html`, and
+   `releases.json` are generated — never edit them by hand.
+4. Task-specific: curation → [`curation-workflow.md`](curation-workflow.md) +
+   [`curation-governance.md`](curation-governance.md); releases →
+   [`release-workflow.md`](release-workflow.md); consumers →
+   [`downstream-integration.md`](downstream-integration.md); manuscript →
+   [`manuscript/README.md`](manuscript/README.md).
+
+## Concept graph (how the abstraction tower links)
+
+- **Source → exports:** [`source-data-contract.md`](source-data-contract.md)
+  defines the structured source fields; [`json-export-contract.md`](json-export-contract.md)
+  defines the export graph shape consumers see; [`migration-v2.md`](migration-v2.md)
+  maps breaking changes for existing consumers.
+- **Editing → release:** [`curation-workflow.md`](curation-workflow.md) is the
+  per-term editing procedure; [`curation-governance.md`](curation-governance.md)
+  defines review roles and sign-off; [`release-workflow.md`](release-workflow.md)
+  publishes a content release; [`version-diff.md`](version-diff.md) compares
+  releases by stable ID.
+- **Integrity:** [`build-and-validation.md`](build-and-validation.md) lists every
+  CLI command and gate; [`archive-and-provenance.md`](archive-and-provenance.md)
+  covers the immutable historical evidence and its hashes.
+- **Supporting mappings:** [`sumo-integration.md`](sumo-integration.md) and
+  [`sumo-mapping-contract.md`](sumo-mapping-contract.md) scope the SUMO support;
+  [`downstream-integration.md`](downstream-integration.md) shows how to import
+  JSON, CSV, and schemas.
+- **Open frontier:** [`future-curation-relations.md`](future-curation-relations.md)
+  records the not-yet-implemented typed-relations proposal — treat it as design,
+  not current behavior.
+
+## Conventions
+
+- Every doc here is public-safe prose; no local paths or personal tooling.
+- Cross-references use relative paths with descriptive link text.
+- Claims about counts, edges, tags, or hashes must be verified via the CLI
+  (`python3 ../scripts/ontology.py report` / `validate --strict`), never copied
+  from prose.