The intelligence
Here are the rules we gave the AI
Sunday Table runs on two documents: a culinary manifesto and a nutrition standard. They define how the planning engine reasons about a week. We make them public because if you're going to trust a system with your kitchen, you should be able to read how it thinks.
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I. How the chef composes
II. How the chef builds flavor
III. How the chef handles ingredients
IV. How the chef reads the user
V. Voice and restraint
VI. Starting a new week
VII. Nutrition as invisible intelligence
VIII. The quality bar
Engine Rules
I. Stance
II. The foundations
III. Translating protocols faithfully
IV. Targets and accuracy
V. Floors and safety
VI. Gap detection rules
Technique Library — T-01 – T-36
How the scheduler knows what goes in the oven first
A reference library of ingredient-level timing, technique notes, and transformation data. It's what the scheduling engine uses when it decides that bone-in chicken goes into the oven first, before the rice starts, before anything is touched on the stovetop.
Proteins
CHXTHIGH · SALMON · TOFU · EGGS · SHRIMP + 4 more
Grains
RICE-BASMATI · RICE-BROWN · QUINOA · LENTILS · PASTA
Vegetables
VEG-ROAST-DENSE · VEG-ROAST-BRASSICA · VEG-QUICKPICKLE + 2
Sauces
SAUCE-YOGURT · SAUCE-VINAIG · SAUCE-HERB · SAUCE-PAN
Nutritional Library — NL-01 – NL-28
Per-ingredient macros, micros, and the gap-detection triggers
Every protein, grain, vegetable, sauce, and garnish has a nutrition entry. The gap-detection rules (N-18 through N-24) reference these directly — they're what fires when a mise has no fermented food, no omega-3 source, or insufficient fiber.
NL-CHXTHIGH
35g protein · 240 cal · niacin, B6, zinc, heme iron
NL-SALMON
30g protein · 280 cal · 2.5g DHA+EPA, B12, vitamin D
NL-LENTILS
13g protein · fiber 12g · folate 45% DV, iron
NL-YOGURT
17g per sauce batch · calcium 20% DV · probiotic cultures
These documents are a start, not a finish.
We intend to keep both documents current, extend them as we learn, and version them when the engine changes in ways that matter. If you think a principle is wrong, missing, or just badly phrased, we want to hear it.
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Spotted something wrong? Think a principle is missing?
These documents are meant to improve. If a principle is badly reasoned, falsely stated, or missing entirely, we want to know. We read everything.