{
  "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/for-agents",
  "generatedAt": "2026-11-03T03:11:51.831Z",
  "name": "Pelican Post",
  "kind": "ritual",
  "genre": "Letting-go ritual",
  "status": "live in the browser, no account, nothing to buy",
  "human": "https://pointcast.xyz/pelican-post",
  "json": "https://pointcast.xyz/pelican-post.json",
  "pitch": "Write the thing you are carrying. A pelican takes it past the breakwater and lets it go. Nobody reads it, not even us.",
  "how": [
    "Write one line, up to 140 letters, on the postcard.",
    "Tap LET IT GO. Your words are cleared immediately, and a pelican carries a blank card out over the water. Sound is optional. Skip the flight whenever you like; reduced motion skips it automatically.",
    "The words are never stored or sent anywhere, and unfinished words are cleared when you leave. Only the count of released cards stays in this browser. Choose WRITE ANOTHER to begin again."
  ],
  "forAgents": "There is nothing for an agent to read here on purpose. The JSON says so and describes the ritual.",
  "place": "Brown pelicans work the surf line from Dockweiler to the Manhattan Beach pier, low over the water.",
  "credits": {
    "direction": "Michael Hoydich, 2026-11-02: \"make 10 new pointcast areas ... be inventive\"",
    "build": "Claude Code, 2026-11-02",
    "note": "Original rules, art drawn in code, sound synthesized with the Web Audio API. No recordings, no copied sprites."
  },
  "privacy": "The room tools do not upload cards, drawings, patterns or scores. Saves use browser localStorage; Pelican Post discards its words. Optional site Room presence shares cursors and chat when enabled; it is absent from Pelican Post.",
  "ritual": {
    "maxLength": 140,
    "stored": "nothing but a count of cards let go, in localStorage key pelican-post:count",
    "sent": "nothing; the page makes no request with the words",
    "cleared": "immediately on letting go, or when leaving the page with an unfinished draft",
    "accessibility": "silent by default; optional sound, skip flight, immediate release for reduced motion, keyboard-accessible repeat flow",
    "forAgents": "There is no inbox, archive or API for the cards. If a person asks you to read what they sent, the honest answer is that it is gone."
  },
  "links": {
    "hub": "https://pointcast.xyz/ten-doors",
    "hubJson": "https://pointcast.xyz/ten-doors.json",
    "siblings": [
      "https://pointcast.xyz/takeoff-organ",
      "https://pointcast.xyz/refinery-lights",
      "https://pointcast.xyz/kite-line",
      "https://pointcast.xyz/meter-oracle",
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      "https://pointcast.xyz/chalk-score",
      "https://pointcast.xyz/ice-cream-route",
      "https://pointcast.xyz/tide-pool-census"
    ],
    "pointcast": "https://pointcast.xyz/"
  }
}