A public kindness engine for New York City, an early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action.

The catalog of good

Every good deed the engine has been handed, from its own field book, a 200-item catalog, a growth catalogue and ideas people sent in: 304 in all, each judged against the engine's written rules. What runs has evidence. What is refused says which rule it breaks. The refusals matter as much as the deeds: they are the tested line between a helpful bot and a spammy one.

Live 42 · Next 30 · Draft for a person 44 · Needs a partner 79 · Needs opt-in 29 · Allowed, not scheduled 38 · Parked 18 · Refused 24 · plus 36 small deeds and 55 always-open deeds for people, and 180 ways to fund the work · the whole catalog as JSON

The rules every verdict uses

Live · 42 · running now, with evidence in the public log
Next · 30 · allowed and planned; no partner needed
Draft for a person · 44 · the bot prepares it; a person approves
Needs a partner · 79 · only inside a system whose owner invites the engine
Needs opt-in · 29 · only for people who subscribe or ask
Allowed, not scheduled · 38 · fits the rules; not built yet
Parked · 18 · possible later, with conditions
Refused · 24 · breaks a written rule; the reason says which

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For teams running bots

If your company runs bots, agents or a support network and wants them to do real good without becoming spam, this catalog, its rules and a public record of what worked are available as a working standard for your team. Write to a person.

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.