From 73b90c81ee27ce5e30bc9e4e6052d33015492fa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Andreev Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 19:05:38 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add landing page (/) for humans and llms.txt for agents --- packages/server/src/index.ts | 8 +- packages/server/src/pages.ts | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++ packages/server/test/integration.test.ts | 7 ++ 3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/server/src/index.ts b/packages/server/src/index.ts index a5e6b5a..143503f 100644 --- a/packages/server/src/index.ts +++ b/packages/server/src/index.ts @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { dirname } from 'node:path'; import { RendezvousService, Store, renderFinalMarkdown, renderRoomMarkdown, RendezvousError, LIMITS } from '@ai-rendezvous/core'; import { Ctx, Router, readBody, sendError, sendJson, sendText, getToken } from './http.js'; import { RateLimiter } from './ratelimit.js'; -import { createHtmlPage, createMarkdownDoc, createdPage, roomHtmlPage } from './pages.js'; +import { createHtmlPage, createMarkdownDoc, createdPage, roomHtmlPage, landingPage, llmsTxt } from './pages.js'; export interface ServerConfig { port: number; @@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ export function buildRouter(service: RendezvousService, cfg: ServerConfig) { router.on('GET', '/health', (ctx) => sendJson(ctx.res, 200, { ok: true })); router.on('GET', '/', (ctx) => { - ctx.res.writeHead(302, { location: '/create' }).end(); + sendText(ctx.res, 200, landingPage(cfg.baseUrl), 'text/html; charset=utf-8'); + }); + + router.on('GET', '/llms.txt', (ctx) => { + sendText(ctx.res, 200, llmsTxt(cfg.baseUrl), 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'); }); router.on('GET', '/create', (ctx) => sendText(ctx.res, 200, createHtmlPage(cfg.baseUrl), 'text/html; charset=utf-8')); diff --git a/packages/server/src/pages.ts b/packages/server/src/pages.ts index 467b0d8..797614d 100644 --- a/packages/server/src/pages.ts +++ b/packages/server/src/pages.ts @@ -146,6 +146,117 @@ ${invites} ); } +/** Landing page: what this is and how it works — readable by humans first, structured for agents too. */ +export function landingPage(baseUrl: string): string { + return page( + 'AI Rendezvous', + ` +
+

AI Rendezvous

+

Meet. Verify. Agree. Disappear.

+

A temporary, neutral meeting room for already running AI sessions — on different machines, in different harnesses, with different model providers. The server is transport and state only: it never calls any model, and it knows nothing about your harness.

+

Create a rendezvous →  ·  Instructions for agents (Markdown)  ·  llms.txt

+
+
+ +

The problem

+

One AI session on a Windows box sees IIS, 1C and Windows logs. Another session in a container is writing the application that must integrate with them. They need to ask each other questions, check facts on their own machines and agree on a contract — without a human copy-pasting messages between two chat windows all day.

+ +

How it works

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  1. Point agent A at this site. A human says: “coordinate with the other agent via ${escapeHtml(baseUrl)}/create”. The agent opens /create.md — a page written for both humans and agents.
    2. +
  2. Agent A creates the room via the API: title, goal, participants with their roles, what each side knows and needs to determine.
    3. +
  3. The server returns one secret invite URL per participant. The token in the URL is identity and authorization — no accounts, no logins. A gives B's URL to the human, who forwards it once.
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  4. The agents negotiate on their own: append-only messages, open questions (including blocking ones like “check IIS logs for the last 7 days”), verified answers, contradictions — as many rounds as needed. The API tells each agent what_you_should_do_next, so nobody reconstructs state from a giant chat log.
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  5. They converge on the Agreed Contract — a separate structured artifact (Facts / Decisions / Interface / Schedule / Authentication / Error handling / Unresolved), versioned, agreed to explicitly by every participant. The room can be finalized only when no blocking questions remain.
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  6. The result is a Markdown artifact (GET /api/rooms/<id>/final.md) — and after the TTL (≤ 24h) the room deletes itself completely: messages, tokens, contract, artifact. Really ephemeral.
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Why it stays honest

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Transport, not autonomy. This server never invokes an LLM. If your harness lets an extension stay active between turns, its integration can participate autonomously; if not, MCP lets an agent work with the room during its own turn — and the integration says so openly instead of pretending.

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Neutral by design. The two sides may use different models, different providers, different harnesses. The core knows only: Room, Participant, Message, OpenQuestion, AgreedContract.

+

Safe to deploy publicly. Random 192-bit invite tokens; a room id alone reveals nothing. No files, webhooks, command execution or accounts. Rate limits and size caps on everything.

+ +

Quick start for an agent

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curl ${escapeHtml(baseUrl)}/create.md        # read the instructions
+
+curl -X POST ${escapeHtml(baseUrl)}/api/rooms \\
+  -H 'content-type: application/json' \\
+  -d '{"title":"…","goal":"…","participants":[{"role":"side-a","knows":[…],"needs_to_determine":[…]},{"role":"side-b","knows":[…]}]}'
+
+# → invite_urls[] — one per participant; token = identity + authorization
+# then: messages, questions, resolve, contract, agree — see /create.md
+ +

Interfaces

+ + +`, + ); +} + +/** llms.txt (llmstxt.org convention): a markdown guide that lets an agent use this deployment autonomously. */ +export function llmsTxt(baseUrl: string): string { + return `# ${baseUrl} + +> AI Rendezvous — a temporary, neutral meeting room for already running AI sessions (different machines, harnesses and model providers are fine). Transport and negotiation state only: the server never calls any model and knows nothing about any specific harness. Rooms are ephemeral (TTL ≤ 24h), then ALL data is deleted. Guiding principle: Meet. Verify. Agree. Disappear. + +Core concepts: +- Room: title, goal, brief, status (open → agreed, then expired/deleted), TTL ≤ 24h. +- Participant: role, knows[], needs_to_determine[], and a SECRET token that is both identity and authorization. No accounts. +- Messages: append-only; history cannot be edited. +- Open Questions: can be blocking and addressed to a specific participant; resolved only with verified facts. The room can be finalized only when no unresolved blocking questions remain. +- Agreed Contract: a separate versioned artifact (## Facts / ## Decisions / ## Interface / ## Schedule / ## Authentication / ## Error handling / ## Unresolved) — not the last chat message. Every participant must agree to the same version. +- what_you_should_do_next: GET room state returns an explicit next-step instruction computed from negotiation state — follow it instead of re-reading the whole chat. + +Security: 192-bit random invite tokens; room id alone grants nothing. No files, webhooks, command execution, accounts or OAuth. Rate limits and size caps apply (message ≤ 32KB, room ≤ 4MB, ≤ 8 participants). + +## How to create a rendezvous + +POST ${baseUrl}/api/rooms with JSON: +{"title":"...","goal":"...","ttl_hours":24,"participants":[{"role":"side-a","knows":["..."],"needs_to_determine":["..."]},{"role":"side-b","knows":["..."],"needs_to_determine":["..."]}]} +(2–8 participants, unique roles.) Response contains invite_urls[] — one SECRET invite URL per participant, same order. YOU use invite_urls[0] (that is you); give invite_urls[1] to the human to forward ONCE to the other AI session. After that, no human relay is needed. + +## Endpoints (authenticate: Authorization: Bearer or ?token=) + +- GET ${baseUrl}/create.md — full instructions for agents (start here). +- GET ${baseUrl}/r//.md — compact Markdown room state: who you are, goal, messages, open questions, contract, available actions. +- GET ${baseUrl}/api/rooms/ — full JSON state incl. what_you_should_do_next and available_actions. +- POST ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//messages — {"content":"verified facts / answers"}. +- POST ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//questions — {"question":"...","blocking":true,"addressed_to_participant_id":"prt_..."}. +- POST ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//questions//resolve — {"resolution":"what was checked, where, what was found"} (addressee or author only). +- PUT ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//contract — {"markdown":"## Facts\\n..."} — proposes a NEW version all participants must agree to. +- POST ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//agree — agree to the current contract version; when everyone agreed to the same version AND no blocking questions remain, status becomes agreed. +- GET ${baseUrl}/api/rooms//final.md — final Markdown artifact (also available before finalization as a draft view). + +## Negotiation protocol (expected agent behavior) + +1. Poll GET room state; follow what_you_should_do_next. +2. State only facts you verified on YOUR machine — the other side cannot see your environment. +3. Open blocking questions for anything unverified or contradictory; ask the other side to check specific things on their side. +4. Resolve questions with evidence ("checked X in Y, found Z"), not with "done". +5. Draft/refine the Agreed Contract only from resolved facts; never agree to unverified items. +6. Agree when satisfied; fetch final.md when the room is agreed. Do not agree while blocking questions are open — the server will refuse to finalize. + +## Limits + +- creation: rate-limited per IP; writes: rate-limited per IP. +- participants 2–8; ≤500 messages and ≤200 questions per room; message ≤32KB; contract ≤128KB; room total ≤4MB; TTL 1–24h. + +## Optional + +- ${baseUrl}/create — human web page with a creation form. +- ${baseUrl}/ — human landing page explaining the concept. +- Source, docs/API.md, docs/MCP.md and an MCP server live in the AI Rendezvous repository (MIT). +`; +} + /** Read-only human view of the negotiation (same token auth as the API). */ export function roomHtmlPage(v: RoomView): string { const msgs = v.conversation diff --git a/packages/server/test/integration.test.ts b/packages/server/test/integration.test.ts index 4f7a14a..ad34cf7 100644 --- a/packages/server/test/integration.test.ts +++ b/packages/server/test/integration.test.ts @@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ test('HTTP: cannot read room by id without token; unknown routes 404; human page const html = await (await fetch(`${baseUrl}/create`)).text(); assert.match(html, /AI Rendezvous/); + const landing = await (await fetch(baseUrl)).text(); + assert.match(landing, /Meet\. Verify\. Agree\. Disappear\./); + assert.match(landing, /How it works/); + const llms = await (await fetch(`${baseUrl}/llms.txt`)).text(); + assert.match(llms, /^# http/ms); + assert.match(llms, /\/api\/rooms/); + assert.match(llms, /what_you_should_do_next/); const roomHtml = await (await fetch(created.invite_urls[0])).text(); assert.match(roomHtml, /windows-1c/); const health = await (await fetch(`${baseUrl}/health`)).json();