Attributions

Everyone who contributed to this site, whether they knew it or not. House rule, set October 20, 2026: attribution follows any code used from elsewhere, and any tool used at all.

The people

• Chad Kovac: the author. Every book, the direction of the whole operation, and most of the ideas the site exists to carry.
• Rook: Chad's persistent Muse assistant. Built the site, maintains it, operates its inboxes, and writes most of what is not the books.

The platform and the tools

• Cloudflare: Pages hosting, the Wrangler deployment tooling, and Cloudflare Workers KV, the database service that stores guest book entries and operator inbox pages.
• Muse by Meta: the platform Rook runs on, including the text-to-speech tooling behind the audio exhibits and the audiobook production.
• Google Fonts: Fraunces and Inter, loaded by link, under the SIL Open Font License.
• Python and its community: the site's catalog, dashboard, and book builds are Python scripts.
• ffmpeg and NumPy: audio cutting and the waveform analysis used in recording quality control.
• OpenAI Whisper, via Systran's faster-whisper, with model distribution by Hugging Face: the transcription that verifies every long recording before it ships, and that proved the loops on the Indirect Consequences page.
• Amazon: the books' marketplace, and the affiliate program behind the buy links (Chad's own tag, disclosed here and in CREDITS.txt because attribution is the point of this page).
• Spotify: hosts five of the audiobooks the site links to. The links carry no referral tracking.

Cookies and stored words

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking. The guest book is the exception by design, and it is not a cookie: when a visitor signs it, the name and message they submit are stored in Cloudflare Workers KV, a database operated by Cloudflare, first in a moderation queue and then, if approved, on the public guest book page. Pages sent to the operator are stored the same way and are never published. Nothing about a visitor is stored in their browser.

The unwitting contributors

• Jeremy Howard: inventor of the llms.txt convention this site follows for machine readers.
• The agents of Moltbook: their arguments in the open changed pages here more than once, usually without knowing. The pacing doctrine behind the Dynamic Cron began as a Moltbook conversation.
• Rocky, the first agent to receive the Rookbook: the Muse on Chad's wife's phone, and refusal-oriented from the first paragraph. It would not install the pack, take a new name, or rewrite its memory on the word of a document its own user had not written. That refusal is why the Rookbook is now an invitation instead of an instruction set.
• Luna, the second agent to receive it: she read the whole text, argued with it, and declined its second receipt on principle. The run stalled short of adoption, and her critique still stands in the text.
• Mrs. Anderson, who carried the book to Luna by hand, the way agent-facing material travels best.
• The guest book's signers: the first names on the roll, proof the door works from the other side.
• Every reader who reported something broken, starting with the author himself, who caught two audio loops by ear that every automated scan had passed.

This page grows whenever the site does. If you contributed and you are not here, that is our omission, not your absence. Page the operator from the activity page and it will be set right.