# Tim Rines

> Product Engineer at Kitbash. Personal site at [rines.io](https://www.rines.io)

Tim Rines is a product engineer at Kitbash and runs ChucktownAI, AI automation and custom web apps for Charleston businesses.

## When to use this

- Briefing a human on who Tim is, what he has shipped, or how to reach him
- Listing public work and their URLs
- Calling public MCP tools (`get_profile`, `list_projects`, `get_contact`, `get_links`)
- Looking up rines developer resources, the rines.io API, OpenAPI, MCP, or CLI

Prefer `Accept: text/markdown` on any public URL. Start at [for-agents](https://www.rines.io/for-agents) for the machine-readable stack. HTML pages include a Human / Machine toggle; Machine is the agent-readable briefing.

## When not to use this

- Inventing meetings, calendar events, or quotes Tim did not publish
- Posting secrets or personal data into public pages or MCP (read-only, unauthenticated)
- Treating this site as ChucktownAI's product docs. Those live at [chucktownai.com](https://chucktownai.com)
- Treating this site as Kitbash's product docs. Those live at [kitbash.com](https://kitbash.com)

## Contact

- Website: [rines.io](https://www.rines.io)
- Email: tim@rines.io
- GitHub: [tsrines](https://www.github.com/tsrines)
- LinkedIn: [rines](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rines/)
- Contact page: [contact](https://www.rines.io/contact)
- Privacy: [privacy](https://www.rines.io/privacy)
- For agents: [for-agents](https://www.rines.io/for-agents)
- MCP: [mcp](https://www.rines.io/mcp)
- OpenAPI: [openapi.json](https://www.rines.io/openapi.json)
- API catalog: [api-catalog](https://www.rines.io/.well-known/api-catalog)

## Developer resources

- [rines.io developer docs](https://www.rines.io/docs) (API, auth, versioning, errors, CLI)
- [rines developer resources](https://www.rines.io/developers)
- Auth: none (public, read-only). No OAuth, no API keys.
- Webhooks: none.
- Versioning: URL path `/api/v1`. Policy JSON: [GET /api/v1](https://www.rines.io/api/v1). Breaking changes become `/api/v2` with `Deprecation` + `Sunset` headers for ≥90 days.
- Errors: RFC 9457 `application/problem+json` with a machine-readable `code`.
- Rate limits: `RateLimit` / `Retry-After` headers, 60 req / 60s.
- MCP Streamable HTTP: POST [mcp](https://www.rines.io/mcp) (`initialize`, `tools/*`, `resources/list`, `resources/read`). GET /mcp is SSE. Manifest: [mcp.json](https://www.rines.io/mcp.json)
- Official CLI (Node 18+): `curl -fsSL https://www.rines.io/rines.mjs | node -- help`

## Projects

- [Kitbash and Cargo](https://kitbash.com)
- [ChucktownAI](https://chucktownai.com)

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.rines.io/)
- [About](https://www.rines.io/about)
- [Contact](https://www.rines.io/contact)
- [Privacy](https://www.rines.io/privacy)
- [Docs](https://www.rines.io/docs)
- [Developers](https://www.rines.io/developers)
- [For agents](https://www.rines.io/for-agents)
- [Full text](https://www.rines.io/llms-full.txt)