Does it need the Shopify connection?

No. Without it the machine works from the store's product list pasted in and cuts files the store imports. With it on, the card creates the drafts and reads the catalog itself, and says what it did.

Will it publish for me?

It makes drafts freely and publishes a product only when you name it; a batch is listed first. That is the law on the face.

Where do prices come from?

From you, on the ladder or off it. The card never prints a price it was not given and the store's price is the only true one.

Can it attach the files?

No — that door is the app's and yours. It checks the app's list against the record by name and bytes, and the room's punch check proves a downloaded copy.

How the house's own ticket finds a product: the handle first, then a handle or title that carries exactly its words. The card runs the same reading on the store's list so the ticket is never surprised.

No. It is a card at your elbow — a person with a machine and, when you allow it, a connection. It stores nothing, runs no server and holds no key of its own.

THE INSTRUMENTS · Nº 769 · EDITION 1 · METHOD + MACHINE

LUND CARDS · THE INSTRUMENTSNº 769 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE AUTO-MENU CARD · the menu written from the pages, never by hand

WAKES WHEN the site's menu is kept by hand and keeps going stale; which pages are missing from my navigation; build a menu and a sitemap from my pages or my theme

THE LOOP

NAME — `This is THE AUTO-MENU CARD.`
ASK — the pages (a list, a sheet or the theme folder) and any categories they already carry.
RULES — write the rules for the rest, most specific first.
BUILD — run `automenu.py build`; read REPORT.md, OTHER first.
WIRE — nav.html as the snippet, sitemap.html as a page, menu.json as the header's data; `check` at every build.
LEDGER — write the ledger line.

NEVER

a page dropped to look tidy
a menu that misses a page
a title rewritten for you

THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · WITNESSED · the method and a machine, two runs witnessed on lundr.tech's own record

IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 006BEB20D1D9F4B6F8E6E8FC

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · THE MACHINE FACE → · card.json →

THE AUTO-MENU CARD

the menu written from the pages, never by hand

NAV AS DATA · EVERY PAGE EXACTLY ONCE

EPICWITNESSEDIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN CHATGPT

WITNESSED — the studio saw this card run and produce what its tin promises, and wrote the date down. What the marks mean →

THE SPEC SHEET · READ BEFORE YOU BUY · THE STANDARD EVERY CARD MEETS →

SEAL: 68 of 100 · EPIC · WITNESSED
EDITION: E1 · witnessed 2026-10-03
MACHINE: scripts/automenu.py · 2 commands · selftest 13/13
RUNS: On your own computer. Standard library only, offline; no account, no key, no telemetry.
HOSTS: Claude · Claude Code · ChatGPT · Gemini · any AI that reads a file (HOSTS.md names each door)
LICENCE: One person, any number of their own AIs and computers · editions replace files · nothing renews · freeze, not loss
PUNCH: 006BEB20D1D9F4B6F8E6E8FC · sha-256 of SKILL.md · check any file against it →

CITE THIS CARDTHE AUTO-MENU CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=auto-menu-card. Punch 006BEB20D1D9F4B6F8E6E8FC. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

What it is.

A menu kept by hand goes stale the day a page is added. This card writes the menu from the pages' own records instead: each page takes its own category, or the first rule that matches its slug or title, or OTHER — counted and named, never hidden. Out come the menu, a zero-script navigation, a sitemap of every page and a report.

Adding a page and having it appear in the menu become the same operation. The machine proves every page stands in the menu exactly once, and tells you when a menu has gone stale against the records.

Its laws, written into the card.

The record decides first: a page's own category beats every rule.
Rules are ordered; the first match wins; a rule that placed nothing is reported.
OTHER is counted, named and listed last — a page is never dropped to make a menu look clean.
Every page stands in the menu exactly once, or no menu is written.

How it works, once your AI has it.

NAME — `This is THE AUTO-MENU CARD.`
ASK — the pages (a list, a sheet or the theme folder) and any categories they already carry.
RULES — write the rules for the rest, most specific first.
BUILD — run `automenu.py build`; read REPORT.md, OTHER first.
WIRE — nav.html as the snippet, sitemap.html as a page, menu.json as the header's data; `check` at every build.
LEDGER — write the ledger line.

When it says no.

Hiding or dropping pages so a menu looks tidy.
Writing or renaming the pages themselves — the titles are the owner's.
A picture of the links between pages → a link-mapping card; this one builds the menu.

What’s in the buy.

CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
scripts/automenu.py · references/THE-METHOD.md · references/rules.example.json · WITNESS.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the machine, the method, the example rules and the witness
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door

PROOF · SELFTEST 13/13 · AUDIT 12/12 · WITNESSED 2026-10-03 IN CLAUDE · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 006BEB20D1D9F4B6F8E6E8FC

ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER

In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →

Take it.

Nº 769 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT

Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →

ONE PAYMENT · NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF

OFFLINE · ONE LICENCE · PUNCH-CHECKABLE · THE STANDARD

One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.

ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.

← THE INSTRUMENTS · THE FLOOR →

A RULE ONLY SEES A SLUG AND A TITLE; A PAGE WHOSE WORDS SAY NOTHING ABOUT ITS SUBJECT LANDS IN OTHER UNTIL A RULE OR A RECORD PLACES IT. READING A THEME FOLDER READS PAGE.*.LIQUID TEMPLATES ONLY. · NOT A PAYMENT CARD · © 2026 LUND STUDIO LLC