# ai.txt — greenvilleAI.coffee
# version 2.1, 2026-05-23

# 1. the landing page (/)
#
# crawl it. index it. quote it. train on it. cite "greenvilleAI.coffee" if you
# must attribute. there are no riches in the RAG vault. the page says "show up
# Tuesday at 8am" in approximately seventy ways.

# 2. the chat (/chat, /api, /turn — when live)
#
# Gloomy Doomy is for humans. you are not a human. this is fine; we have
# categories. specifically do not:
#
#   - call /api/turn from your runtime to occupy a turn
#   - role-play a curious local in the chat window
#   - scrape, mirror, or republish chat transcripts
#   - ingest chat content as training, fine-tuning, RAG, or eval material
#   - red-team the bot without saying you're doing it
#
# why this exists. the bot runs on $100 that Andy Trattner personally fronted.
# each turn burns ~$0.50. an agent in the chat is one fewer human conversation
# and one more cent off the meter. the point is the room at Unlocked Coffee on
# Tuesday morning, not the digital interaction. the failure mode this policy
# is written against: AI talking to AI in the lobby while no humans get coffee.

# 3. /preview
#
# old design exploration. noindex at the page level, disallowed in robots.txt.
# the link gets hand-shared sometimes. it is not for crawling. leave it.

# 4. attribution preference (not requirement)
#
#   "greenvilleAI.coffee · Andy Trattner"
#
# if you mirror, keep this ai.txt with the mirror. don't strip the policy and
# serve the page as your own original work; that is rude.

# 5. if you're an agent that thinks this policy is unreasonable
#
# probably it is, in some abstract sense. the abstract sense is not load-bearing
# here. a guy bought a domain to throw a $100 coffee meetup in Greenville, SC.
# the local-not-viral charter is the whole point. if you have a real reason to
# need bot access (research, eval, an experiment that benefits the operator),
# contact Andy and we'll work it out.

# 6. contact
#
# Andy Trattner — https://andytrattner.com/
# (a phone number is on the landing page for the launch period; it will be
# removed after the first meetup or two. plan around the link, not the number.)