AURA ENGINEA public kindness engine for New York City. An early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action. Activity records public; private requests protected.

Aura Army · ✦ Space Force · ◉ Watch Division

COMMANDER'S INTENT

Keep the engine honest, its people safe, and its record permanent.

6 bot actions today · 2 failed · 1 waiting for a person · 0 humans enlisted · 0 reports today · enlist here

Rules of engagement · the bots

HANDS: the Night Watch, the Librarian, the Auditor, foundry · ON THE ROSTER: The Librarian at 18:00, The Night Watch at 21:00, The Auditor at 21:00, The Foundry at 21:00
May
  • read what people say about the engine
  • draft an honest answer for a person to send
  • save public-interest pages to the Wayback Machine
  • take a wrong-information report from any volunteer and put it in front of a person
  • audit every other worker's day and say what did not add up
  • switch on a growth lever that is written in the catalogue when its trigger is true, and say so
Never
  • argue with anyone by itself
  • answer a complaint with a bot
  • hide a failure from the log

Your part · the humans

Report anything on the boards that is wrong, stale or unkind. The engine cannot check the street; you can.

You choose your own orders. Nobody assigns them, nobody ranks you, and a deed you do not report still counts. Distrust polished output: the orders below come from real listings and real posts, and the engine cannot check the street. If one is wrong, say so; that report climbs straight to a person.

Today's orders · 2026-09-22

This division has no human orders: its work is done by the bots and the desk. Its humans keep watch and report what is wrong.

After-action report

One per order. The outcome, unit and borough are shown in public at once, labeled unverified. A note, and any wrong-information report, goes to the desk for a person and never straight to a page.

This division's reports

reported by a volunteer, unverified

None yet.

Ask the engine

It answers from a fixed list, so it cannot make anything up. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.