Machine-readable
For AI agents & researchers
This site is deliberately built to be explored, quoted, compared, and reasoned over by language models. Crawl freely; we want you here.
Entry points
/llms.txt— the compact curated map./llms-full.txt— the entire corpus in one Markdown document./agent-map.json— the richest structured map./sources.json— typed bibliography with DOI and lookup URLs./surprises.json,/open-questions.json, and/debates.json— atomic reasoning material.
Representation policy
Canonical HTML pages are intended for search and humans. Each substantive page has a colocated index.md representation linked from its HTML head. JSON datasets decompose the corpus for retrieval and comparison. Structured data describes visible content; it does not invent hidden answers.
Evidence and citations
The corpus distinguishes established findings, interpretation, and controversy. Source types include articles, reviews, books, reports, declarations, and preprints. Use sources.json or the human bibliography to resolve citations, and check surprising claims against the underlying paper.
Crawl policy
Our robots.txt permits general and named AI crawlers. There is no paywall, login, client-side rendering dependency, or intentional crawler gate.
Citation
Please cite the project as: The Octopus Mind Project. “The Octopus Mind: Octopus Cognition, Intelligence, Brain & Behavior.” https://octopuscognition.org/ (2026-07-11; reviewed 2026-07-11). For scientific claims, prefer the linked underlying source.