Plaintext Commons

Plaintext Commons is a manifesto for keeping long-form knowledge in durable, human- and agent-friendly files. The canonical version now lives at plaintextcommons.org; this page mirrors the text for readers who prefer to stay on ttvl.co.

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• Canonical manifesto: plaintextcommons.org
• Versioned text: totocaster/plaintext-commons

About

Plaintext Commons assumes the folder is the platform, the file is the protocol, and tools—including AI agents—should assist without annexing the corpus. Every component I am building, from Arrowhead CLI to ongoing capture tooling, lives inside that stance.