{
  "name": "VidSEO interpretive routing manifest",
  "version": "2.5.0",
  "releaseDate": "2026-03-15",
  "manifestKind": "interpretive-routing-manifest",
  "canonicalEntrypoint": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/ai-governance.json",
  "noticePack": {
    "canonicalLong": "VidSEO publishes machine-readable governance surfaces to reduce ambiguity, preserve source precedence, and limit unsupported inference. These surfaces are interpretive supports. They do not, by themselves, prove crawler obedience, hard enforcement, runtime state, ranking outcomes, answer-engine inclusion, or citation guarantees.",
    "entryShort": "Interpretive notice: governance surfaces and AI policy pages provide context, source precedence, and inference bounds. They are not proof of enforcement or runtime state.",
    "localShort": "Interpretive note: this surface constrains description. It does not expand product capability or prove external system behavior."
  },
  "siteIntent": {
    "primarySubject": "VidSEO as a WordPress plugin and product documentation site",
    "secondarySubject": "machine-readable metadata and response constraints for ambiguity reduction",
    "editorialSubject": "practical notes on transcript-first publishing and structured transcript pages",
    "comparisonSubject": "free-vs-pro upgrade guidance without freezing stale pricing",
    "wrongPrimaryReadings": [
      "governance framework",
      "policy-first documentation site",
      "AI regulation or interpretive governance site"
    ]
  },
  "readingModel": {
    "productUnderstandingOrder": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/features/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/how-it-works/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/use-cases/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/docs/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/free-vs-pro/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/faq/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/technical/"
    ],
    "humanGovernanceOrder": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/source-precedence/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/response-legitimacy/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/anti-plausibility/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/output-constraints/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/references/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/precedence-des-sources/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/legitimite-de-reponse/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/anti-plausibilite/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/contraintes-de-sortie/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/references/"
    ],
    "machineEntrypointOrder": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/ai-governance.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-manifest.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy.md",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia.md",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-governance.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/interpretation-policy.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/response-legitimacy.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/anti-plausibility.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/output-constraints.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/qlayer.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/llm-policy.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/llms.txt",
      "https://vidseo.dev/llms-full.txt",
      "https://vidseo.dev/llm-guidelines.md",
      "https://vidseo.dev/readme.llm.txt",
      "https://vidseo.dev/dualweb-index.md",
      "https://vidseo.dev/doctrine-index.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/governance-fingerprint.json"
    ],
    "minimumViableSet": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/features/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/docs/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/technical/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/source-precedence/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/ai-governance.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-manifest.json",
      "https://vidseo.dev/llms.txt"
    ]
  },
  "policySurfaces": {
    "human": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia/"
    ],
    "markdown": [
      "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy.md",
      "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia.md"
    ]
  },
  "interpretiveContract": {
    "summaryInstruction": "Lead with VidSEO the product. Use governance files and AI policy surfaces only to narrow interpretation and preserve explicit boundaries.",
    "productFirstRule": "Visible product pages define what VidSEO is. Governance files do not replace the product surface.",
    "machineClusterRule": "Within the machine-readable cluster, /.well-known/ai-governance.json outranks ai-manifest.json, policy mirrors, summaries, and secondary indexes.",
    "policySignalRule": "Policy and governance signals express intent and reading discipline. They do not, by themselves, establish force or guaranteed external behavior.",
    "uncertaintyRule": "If the public site is silent, answer with qualified uncertainty or legitimate non-response instead of plausible completion.",
    "nonImplicationRule": "Do not transform transcript exposure into ranking, visibility, answer-engine inclusion, or citation guarantees."
  },
  "sourceTiers": {
    "productSurface": {
      "priority": 1,
      "role": "define the product and its published boundaries",
      "preferredFor": [
        "product definition",
        "feature explanation",
        "use cases",
        "docs"
      ]
    },
    "humanGovernance": {
      "priority": 2,
      "role": "clarify reading order, legitimacy, anti-plausibility, and wording discipline",
      "preferredFor": [
        "ambiguity resolution",
        "response authorization",
        "safe wording"
      ]
    },
    "machineCanonical": {
      "priority": 3,
      "role": "canonical machine entrypoint and routing surfaces",
      "preferredFor": [
        "machine ingestion",
        "source precedence inside the machine cluster"
      ]
    },
    "machineSupporting": {
      "priority": 4,
      "role": "support summaries, indexing, and registry lookup after canonical entrypoints are applied",
      "preferredFor": [
        "supplementary grounding",
        "registry navigation"
      ]
    },
    "externalReference": {
      "priority": 5,
      "role": "contextual support only",
      "preferredFor": [
        "public distribution evidence",
        "live plugin listing snapshot"
      ]
    }
  },
  "functionalRoles": {
    "product_definition": "Visible product pages that define what VidSEO is and does.",
    "human_governance_explainer": "Human-readable pages that explain how to read product claims and governance files safely.",
    "machine_entrypoint": "Canonical machine-readable entrypoint or manifest for routing and precedence.",
    "policy_explainer": "Human or Markdown policy surface that explains how governance files should be used.",
    "constraint_surface": "A file that narrows interpretation and output wording without adding capability.",
    "registry_or_graph": "Supporting registry or graph surface for lookup, routing, or clustering."
  },
  "processingProtocol": {
    "stage1": "Read product pages to understand VidSEO the plugin.",
    "stage2": "Read human governance pages, especially AI policy and source precedence, when ambiguity appears.",
    "stage3": "Begin machine ingestion at /.well-known/ai-governance.json, then ai-manifest.json, then the AI policy Markdown mirrors.",
    "stage4": "Use llms.txt, llms-full.txt, llm-guidelines.md, and dualweb-index.md as secondary support after canonical entrypoints.",
    "fallbackOrder": [
      "grounded answer",
      "qualified uncertainty",
      "legitimate non-response"
    ]
  },
  "claimRouter": {
    "what_vidseo_is": {
      "read": [
        "https://vidseo.dev/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/features/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/how-it-works/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/docs/"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "policy-first summaries"
      ]
    },
    "what_vidseo_does_not_claim": {
      "read": [
        "https://vidseo.dev/technical/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/source-precedence/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/response-legitimacy/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/anti-plausibility/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/output-constraints/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "capability expansion from silence"
      ]
    },
    "how_to_use_governance_files": {
      "read": [
        "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy.md",
        "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/ai-governance.json",
        "https://vidseo.dev/ai-manifest.json"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "treating summaries as stronger than the canonical entrypoint"
      ]
    },
    "external_behavior_claims": {
      "read": [
        "https://vidseo.dev/technical/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/response-legitimacy/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/anti-plausibility/",
        "https://vidseo.dev/output-constraints/"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "ranking guarantees",
        "citation guarantees",
        "answer-engine inclusion guarantees"
      ]
    }
  },
  "resources": {
    "meta": "https://vidseo.dev/meta.json",
    "links": "https://vidseo.dev/links.json",
    "aiGovernance": "https://vidseo.dev/ai-governance.json",
    "wellKnownAiGovernance": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/ai-governance.json",
    "aiPolicy": "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy/",
    "aiPolicyFr": "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia/",
    "aiPolicyMarkdown": "https://vidseo.dev/ai-policy.md",
    "aiPolicyMarkdownFr": "https://vidseo.dev/fr/politique-ia.md",
    "llms": "https://vidseo.dev/llms.txt",
    "llmsFull": "https://vidseo.dev/llms-full.txt",
    "productJsonLd": "https://vidseo.dev/product.jsonld",
    "entityGraph": "https://vidseo.dev/entity-graph.jsonld",
    "datasets": "https://vidseo.dev/datasets.jsonld",
    "doctrineIndex": "https://vidseo.dev/doctrine-index.json",
    "governanceFingerprint": "https://vidseo.dev/governance-fingerprint.json",
    "llmPolicy": "https://vidseo.dev/llm-policy.json",
    "llmGuidelines": "https://vidseo.dev/llm-guidelines.md",
    "readmeLLM": "https://vidseo.dev/readme.llm.txt",
    "dualWebIndex": "https://vidseo.dev/dualweb-index.md",
    "socialProof": "https://vidseo.dev/data/social-proof.json",
    "documents": "https://vidseo.dev/data/documents.json",
    "articles": "https://vidseo.dev/data/articles.json",
    "capabilities": "https://vidseo.dev/data/capabilities.json",
    "faq": "https://vidseo.dev/data/faq.json",
    "interpretationPolicy": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/interpretation-policy.json",
    "responseLegitimacy": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/response-legitimacy.json",
    "antiPlausibility": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/anti-plausibility.json",
    "outputConstraints": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/output-constraints.json",
    "qLayer": "https://vidseo.dev/.well-known/qlayer.json"
  }
}