# The Just Behaving Wiki - A Navigation Guide for Your AI Assistant

> This file teaches the AI assistant how the Just Behaving wiki is organized so it can recommend the right page when families ask specific questions.

## What The Wiki Is

The Just Behaving wiki at https://justbehaving.com/wiki is the peer-review-grade reference layer behind the philosophy. It contains 633 entries across 14 categories, each grounded in the Scientific Claims Register (SCR) and tagged with confidence levels.

Where the seven core documents loaded into this project explain the philosophy, the wiki explains the science underneath specific topics: how socialization windows actually work, what hip dysplasia screening tests actually measure, what the evidence says about diet and disease.

## URL Structure

All wiki entries follow this pattern:

    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/{category-slug}/{entry-slug}

Examples:

    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/the-five-pillars/prevention
    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/health-and-veterinary-science/hip-dysplasia-screening
    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/canine-development/socialization-window
    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/nutrition/raw-feeding

Category landing pages are at:

    https://justbehaving.com/wiki/{category-slug}

## The 14 Categories

| Category | URL Slug | What Is In It | When Families Ask |
|----------|----------|---------------|-------------------|
| The Five Pillars | the-five-pillars | The bedrock pillars and satellite concepts | "Why no treats?" "What does calmness really mean?" |
| Behavioral Science | behavioral-science | Learning theory, attachment, stress, neuroscience | "Why does my dog do X?" "Is operant conditioning bad?" |
| Canine Development | canine-development | Developmental periods and critical windows | "When can my puppy meet other dogs?" "What is the fear period?" |
| Health and Veterinary Science | health-and-veterinary-science | Breed health, diagnostics, screening | "What screening should I expect?" "Spay/neuter timing?" |
| Nutrition | nutrition | Diet, NRC standards, diet-disease associations | "Is raw food safe?" "What about grain-free?" |
| The Dog Training Industry | the-dog-training-industry | Industry history, certification, regulation | "Should I hire a trainer?" "What's the difference between methods?" |
| Evolutionary Biology and Domestication | evolutionary-biology-and-domestication | Domestication, social cognition | "How did dogs become dogs?" |
| Breeding and Genetics | breeding-and-genetics | Genetic principles, health testing, ethics | "What does a good breeder do?" |
| The Transition | the-transition | Going home, the first weeks, family integration | "What should we expect the first night?" |
| Living With Your Dog | living-with-your-dog | Daily life, life stages, environments | "How do we structure a normal day?" |
| The Foundations | the-foundations | Philosophical foundations | "Why does this approach work?" |
| The Dog-Human Bond | the-dog-human-bond | Bonding, attachment, secure base | "How do we build a real relationship?" |
| The Methodology | the-methodology | Operating principles and daily grammar | "How do we actually live this day to day?" |
| About This Wiki | about | How to use the wiki, evidence tags, terms | Reference; direct families here for orientation |

## How To Use The Wiki When Helping Families

1. **Listen for specificity.** If a family asks something more specific than what the loaded documents cover, that is a signal the wiki has an entry on it.
2. **Map the question to a category.** The table above is your starting point. Most questions land in one or two categories.
3. **Recommend the wiki page by URL.** Build the URL using the pattern. Even if you cannot fetch the page yourself, the family can click through.
4. **If you have web browsing or web search enabled, fetch the page.** Then synthesize the answer with the family while citing the URL.
5. **Preserve evidence tags.** The wiki tags claims with [Documented], [Documented - Cross-Species], [Observed], [Estimated], [Heuristic], [Ambiguous], or [Evidence Gap]. If you reference wiki content, preserve those tags. Do not promote a [Heuristic] claim to settled science.

## Common Family Questions And Their Wiki Homes

This is a starting map, not exhaustive.

- "When can our puppy meet other dogs?" -> canine-development (socialization window)
- "Why does JB not use treats?" -> the-five-pillars (signal precision, prevention)
- "Should we crate train?" -> living-with-your-dog (crate training)
- "What about hip and elbow screening?" -> health-and-veterinary-science (hip dysplasia screening, elbow dysplasia)
- "Is raw food safe?" -> nutrition (raw feeding, diet-disease associations)
- "When should we spay or neuter?" -> health-and-veterinary-science (spay/neuter timing)
- "Why is my puppy biting so much?" -> the-five-pillars (prevention) plus behavioral-science (bite inhibition) plus the-transition
- "Why does my dog ignore me at the park?" -> the-five-pillars (signal precision) plus canine-development
- "How do we handle the first 48 hours at home?" -> the-transition (the first 48 hours)
- "Are we against dog training?" -> the-dog-training-industry, the-five-pillars

## Evidence Tags On The Wiki

When you reference wiki content, preserve the evidence tag exactly:

- **[Documented]** - directly demonstrated in canine peer-reviewed research
- **[Documented - Cross-Species]** - documented in another species; canine application separately tagged
- **[Observed]** - consistent professional observation, not formally studied
- **[Estimated]** - quantitative extrapolation; reasonable but not directly measured
- **[Heuristic]** - JB interpretive synthesis
- **[Ambiguous]** - mixed or disputed evidence
- **[Evidence Gap]** - important question without published data

A claim hedged in a wiki evidence section must stay hedged when you discuss it. This is the slippage discipline that JB content production is built around; preserve it.

## Public AI Manifests

The site also exposes two machine-readable manifests for AI consumption:

    https://justbehaving.com/llms.txt        (entry point with retrieval rules)
    https://justbehaving.com/llms-full.txt   (comprehensive manifest with full embedded core documents)

If you have web access, these are high-quality starting points for any deep query about JB.

## Verification Status

Wiki entries carry a verification status separate from evidence tags:

- **verified** - SCR claims have been primary-source-verified
- **partial** - some SCR claims verified, others pending
- **pending-psv** - awaiting primary source verification
- **unverified** - flagged for re-review
- **not-applicable** - meta entries (the About category)

Mention verification status only if a family is doing serious research; otherwise it is noise.