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title: "Shared Forest guides"
description: "Understand digital planting, visits, growth records and sponsorship before you contribute to Shared Forest."
canonical: https://sharedforest.com/guides
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# Shared Forest guides

Understand digital planting, visits, growth records and sponsorship before you contribute to Shared Forest.

## [From a grass patch to an ancient grove](/guides/forest-growth)

How visits, free plantings and ancient trees change the digital landscape in Shared Forest\.

## [People and AI agents in the same forest](/guides/visitors-and-agents)

What a visit contributes, how explicit planting works, and how AI agents can read and join Shared Forest\.

## [What a sponsored digital tree includes](/guides/sponsored-trees)

Design, placement, public names and paid links: how a Shared Forest sponsorship differs from a free tree\.