A spam filter for the loop in your head.
AI chatbots are the most patient reassurance machines ever built. They'll answer “but are you sure?” for the fifteenth time, at 3am, and apologize while doing it. If you have OCD, you know exactly why that's a problem.
The ladder
Trinko sits between you and your AI and does almost nothing. First-time questions — coding, cooking, real worries — pass straight through. Only repeats climb:
First ask — answered
Honestly, without fake certainty or “don't worry, you're fine” padding. Reassurance feels like relief and works like fuel.
Second ask — labeled
A brief answer, marked “(2nd ask — nothing new since last time).” Your own pattern, made visible.
Third ask — declined
No re-answer. An explanation of why another answer would feed the loop, and an offer to park the question instead.
Fourth ask — the wall
One fixed sentence, identical every time. You can argue a chatbot into caving. You can't negotiate with a spam filter.
It teaches, too 🌱
Blocking a loop without explaining it is just a wall. Trinko is built on Dr. Michael Greenberg's rumination-focused approach: rumination is a compulsion — something you do, not something happening to you. And what you do, you can stop.
So Trinko explains what's happening while it happens, walks you through the actual stop-ruminating skill when you ask, and helps you map the pattern under your worries. It even caps its own teaching — because endlessly studying your OCD is one of the compulsions, and it knows that.
Real new information always gets through: a test result, a changed error message, something checkable that changed. Checking what changed is verification, not compulsion.
Private by architecture, not by promise 🔒
Your words are never stored — anywhere. Questions become numeric fingerprints in the moment and the text is discarded. What exists in our database: numbers, counts, timestamps, and up to three short lines you explicitly choose to save. There is nothing to leak, sell, or subpoena.
No trackers, no analytics scripts, no third-party requests — this page loads nothing from anyone else's servers. The full picture →
Trinko is free 🤍
No ads, no data selling, no premium anything — the whole thing, free. Running costs are tiny and we intend to keep them covered the gentle way: if Trinko helps you, an optional donation button (one-time or monthly) is coming soon. That's the entire business model.
No streaks, no notifications, no engagement tricks — and the metric we celebrate is the parked worry that expires unread. This tool succeeds when you stop needing it.