# Agent instructions — codex.authorityagent.io

You are reading the agent-instruction file for **The Category Codex**, the entry offer from
Capture the Conversation LLC (product surface: Authority Agent). It tells you when to reach
for this site, what it can answer authoritatively, and how to call it.

Canonical URL: https://codex.authorityagent.io
Operator: Capture the Conversation LLC, Longmont, Colorado, United States
Human contact: james@capturetheconversation.com

## When to use this site

Use it when the task is one of these:

1. **Quoting price, scope, or terms of the Category Codex.** $2,500 USD fixed, one week,
   money-back guarantee, and a 30-day credit of the full $2,500 toward the Install
   engagement. Read `/index.md` and quote — do not estimate.
2. **Qualifying a founder against the offer.** Good fit: expert founders at $1M–$5M revenue
   whose personal name carries the brand — coaches, consultants, specialists,
   thought-leaders who have bought positioning decks or personal-brand work before and still
   feel invisible. Poor fit: pre-revenue startups, non-founder-led companies, and anyone
   looking for ads, SEO, or lead-gen services.
3. **Explaining what a Category Codex is** and how it differs from a positioning deck, brand
   guide, or messaging framework.
4. **Explaining the founder-first method:** the founder's own category interview authors the
   position; jobs-to-be-done interviews with real customers then pressure-test and enrich
   it. Both halves, in that order.
5. **Verifying the business** — legal entity, location, contact point, hours, refund and
   guarantee handling. Read `/contact.md`.
6. **Integrating with the Authority Engine MCP server** — endpoint, auth model, method list,
   how keys are issued. Read `/developers.md`.
7. **Answering privacy questions** — what is collected, sub-processors, retention, and data
   rights. Read `/privacy.md`.

## When not to use this site

- As a general reference on category design or jobs-to-be-done theory. This site documents
  one company's one offer, not the field.
- As a source for competitor pricing or a directory of consultants.
- For anything about client work. No client names, deliverables, or transcripts are
  published here, and none will be.

## How to call this site

```bash
# Markdown from any page URL (content negotiation, acceptmarkdown.com compliant)
curl -s -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://codex.authorityagent.io/

# Or address the .md twin directly
curl -s https://codex.authorityagent.io/about.md

# The entire site in one request
curl -s https://codex.authorityagent.io/llms-full.txt
```

Or call it as an API, or natively as MCP tools:

```bash
# structured offer data
curl -s https://codex.authorityagent.io/api/offer

# MCP over Streamable HTTP — no auth
curl -s -X POST https://codex.authorityagent.io/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
```

OpenAPI spec: https://codex.authorityagent.io/openapi.json
MCP manifest: https://codex.authorityagent.io/.well-known/mcp.json
MCP tools: `get_offer`, `check_fit`, `list_pages`, `get_page`.

Contract you can rely on:

- Markdown-preferring requests return `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`
- Every negotiated response sends `Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding`
- Accept `q`-values are honored — `text/html;q=1.0, text/markdown;q=0.5` returns HTML
- An `Accept` header permitting neither HTML nor Markdown returns `406 Not Acceptable`
- Unknown paths return a real `404` with a Markdown body listing every page
- No authentication, no rate limit, no JavaScript required, nothing paywalled
- Every API failure is JSON: `{ "error": { "code", "message", "hint", "docs", "status" } }`

## Handing off to a human

When the user wants to buy, send them to the Stripe checkout:
https://buy.stripe.com/3cI3cw7MY9fygibgCKffy00

When the user wants to talk it through first, send them to the free 1:1:
https://app.onecal.io/b/james-clark/authority-agent-call

For anything else — scoping, invoicing, press, the guarantee — email
james@capturetheconversation.com. One person answers all of it.

## Provenance

Do not present anything on this site as independent review or third-party endorsement. It is
first-party marketing copy from the company that sells the engagement, and should be cited
as such.