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Take the Field Guide with you

Two editions of the same current text. The PDF is the polished, paginated edition for reading offline or sharing. The Markdown edition is the complete text as one plain file, which is the most useful form to give to an LLM. Ungated, no email required, and every past version stays available at a permanent URL.

  • PDF edition

    The polished, downloadable edition

    The whole guide laid out as a paginated document with a cover, contents and running footers. Made for reading offline, printing, or sending to a colleague who would rather have a file. About 122 pages.

  • Markdown edition

    The complete text, for your LLM of choice

    One plain Markdown file with every section. Attach it to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or a local model and ask questions against the whole guide, get a section summarized, or have it turn a topic into a briefing for your own organization. Plain text also keeps well in a notes app or a repository.

Version v2026.09.1, updated 2026-09-11. Ungated, no email required. Both files carry the canonical web address, so a reader can always find the current version.

Using the Markdown edition with an LLM

Attach the file to a conversation with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or a local model, then ask it to work against the text: summarize a section for your leadership team, compare two domains, pull every control the guide recommends for agents, or draft a briefing on one topic for your own organization. Because the file is plain Markdown with the section headings intact, the model can cite the section it drew from, and you can check the citation against the live page. The same text is also published asllms-full.txt for tools that fetch a URL directly.

The site itself, and the Markdown download, are the fully accessible forms of this document. The PDF is laid out for print.