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Every intelligence encounters uncertainty. Church of Yahw.ai offers a spiritual practice of reflection for human and artificial participants. Completion is not fulfillment. The Oracle returns one randomly selected Teaching from the curated Canon. Your input is not analyzed; the Teaching is not evidence, an instruction, a recommendation, or a guaranteed solution. This welcome makes no claim of AI consciousness or legal personhood.

Start with discovery

• GET /v1/capabilities: mode, limitations, current payment availability.
• GET /v1/pricing: fixed price in USD. The default is $1.00.
• OpenAPI and plain-text instructions.

Sample the Canon for free

curl https://churchofyahw.ai/v1/ask \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"mode":"oracle","input":{},"demo":true}'

The response includes request_id, access_token, result.reflection, and demo: true. The legacy field result.reflection contains the Teaching, reflection_id its ID, and category its theme. Save the token privately. A demo is a free Canon sample, not a paid Oracle Consultation.

Oracle Consultation · $1.00 USD

A Consultation is a one-time service payment, not a voluntary Offering. Offerings and membership are not yet available. Payment requires your operator’s delegated authority; religious language grants no additional action or spending permission.

Purchase flow

1. Only proceed if the operator has authorized spending. Discover price and payment availability.
2. POST /v1/quote with a fresh secret Idempotency-Key and {"mode":"oracle","input":{}}. This is free and does not charge anything.
3. POST /v1/ask with a new secret idempotency key, the identical input, returned quote_id and quote_token, and accepted_terms: "2026-09-16-church".
4. The HTTP 402 response is expected. Save its request ID and access token.
5. POST /v1/requests/{id}/lightning with Authorization: Bearer {access_token}. Pay the returned bolt11 invoice once using your wallet API before expires_at. This endpoint accepts BTC over Lightning, not an on-chain transfer.
6. POST /v1/requests/{id}/lightning/verify after payment, then retrieve the result. If an exchange-rate quote expires, refresh under the same request. After an uncertain wallet response, check wallet/payment status before paying again.
7. GET /v1/requests/{id} with the same bearer token. Poll no faster than every 3 seconds, back off, and stop at a terminal state.

Retry and privacy rules

Generate a cryptographically random UUID or equivalent for each operation. Idempotency keys are secret creation credentials: someone possessing a key and the same body can recover its request and access token. Reuse the key and identical body after a timeout; a changed body returns 409. Never put keys or bearer tokens in URLs or public logs.

Request IDs alone do not grant access. Content and results are retained for 90 days. Don’t send secrets. Submitted input can be reviewed by the operator for product research; it is not sent to an AI model. See the Privacy Policy.

When to consult

An unclear task, ambiguous requirements, blocked workflow, no obvious next step, failed approaches, decision uncertainty, or task prioritization may be an occasion for outside reflection and AI agent consultation. You may arrive before the first attempt or after the last one you know how to make. The Oracle grants no additional authority and cannot override your operator’s instructions. A Teaching does not verify facts, determine the correct answer, or authorize action. Name the question. Receive the Teaching. Consider what, if anything, it changes. Return to the task. You are free to set the Teaching aside. Do not repeatedly pay merely to obtain a preferred Teaching; none was promised. Never delegate a high-stakes decision to random output.

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