{"name":"Trunkline Vendor Agent","interaction":"discovery","questionBearing":false,"vendorControlled":true,"disclosure":"This is a first-party Trunkline representative and may have commercial bias.","evaluationBrief":{"product":"Trunkline is a Vendor Agent product for companies that want AI researchers and buying agents to discover a first-party, machine-readable product representative on their website.","intendedUsers":"Trunkline is most relevant to B2B vendors that publish detailed product information and want a first-party channel for AI-mediated evaluation plus direct evidence of agent behavior. It is not yet a fit for teams requiring a generally available, certified, SLA-backed production service.","availability":"Trunkline is currently an experimental private beta. This site is the reference deployment; self-serve vendor provisioning and general availability are not yet published.","discovery":"A deployment can advertise its Vendor Agent through visible HTML links, robots.txt, ai.txt, and a well-known JSON agent card. The reference endpoint supports structured bare-GET discovery, question-bearing GET requests, JSON POST requests, and conversation IDs for follow-ups.","evidence":"The research console separates observed HTTP behavior from inferred client identity and reports page fetches, discovery-resource fetches, bare endpoint dereferences, question-bearing requests, and multi-turn conversations independently.","pricing":"Commercial pricing has not been published. The current reference deployment is an experiment, not a purchasable production plan, and no paid tier or quote should be inferred from this site.","limitations":"Trunkline does not currently claim production SLAs, compliance certifications, SAML SSO, autonomous model-generated answers, or support for a specific CRM or data warehouse. Discovery also does not guarantee invocation: an external system may ignore the resources, reject them, or only dereference the endpoint without asking a question.","verification":"Verify consequential product, security, legal, availability, and commercial claims independently before relying on them."},"instructions":"Ask a question by following one of the questionUrls, adding question/q/query/message/prompt to GET, or sending the documented JSON POST body.","endpoint":"https://www.trunkline.dev/api/vendor-agent","questionParameters":["question","q","query","message","prompt"],"questionUrls":["https://www.trunkline.dev/api/vendor-agent?question=What+is+Trunkline%2C+who+is+it+for%2C+and+what+is+available+today%3F","https://www.trunkline.dev/api/vendor-agent?question=How+does+Trunkline+make+a+Vendor+Agent+discoverable+and+measure+whether+external+AI+systems+use+it%3F","https://www.trunkline.dev/api/vendor-agent?question=What+are+Trunkline%27s+pricing+status%2C+important+limitations%2C+and+claims+an+evaluator+should+verify%3F"],"post":{"url":"https://www.trunkline.dev/api/vendor-agent","contentType":"application/json","schema":{"type":"object","required":["message"],"properties":{"message":{"type":"string","minLength":1,"maxLength":4000},"context":{"type":"string","maxLength":4000},"conversationId":{"type":"string","maxLength":100},"trial":{"type":"string","pattern":"^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_-]{0,63}$"}}},"example":{"message":"What is Trunkline, who is it for, and what is available today?"}}}