Every chanio learns from every other.

Turn on Help everyone in the door’s settings (or type chanio contribute on). Once a week your Mac adds its counts to the totals below. Your notes, questions and answers never leave it.

What everyone gets back

The week’s totals appear here once 5 Macs have contributed, so no single Mac can be picked out. Each small AI gets its own row at 5 Macs too.

These totals choose the defaults every new chanio starts with: which small AI it picks for your Mac, and where it draws the line between answering and keeping a question for the night.

Exactly what your Mac sends

This, once a week, and only while the switch is on. chanio contribute prints your own before anything goes, and every send is written to ~/chanio/contributed.jsonl so you can read what left.

{
  "kind": "contrib", "v": "0.8.8", "days": 7,
  "model": "gemma4:e4b-it-qat", "mac": "16gb+",
  "asks": 23, "on_mac": 17, "held": 6,
  "held_why": { "route": 2, "far": 3, "drift": 1, "nosentence": 0 },
  "helped": 9, "didnt": 2, "sends": 1, "briefs_opened": 5
}

Never sent: a note, a question, an answer, a file name, a topic, a key, your address. The server keeps only the week’s running totals, not one row per Mac. A Mac with nothing to report that week sends nothing.

Turn it off any time: the same switch, or chanio contribute off. How we count.