THE CANOPY CARD · partner commerce: the money, written down
WAKES WHEN a shop takes partners on commission or stock, or a partner asks what they are owed and why
THE LOOP
tag <url> --partner · the marked link
landing <ledger> <url> · a click, 34 days
order · attributed or not, with the reason
settle --rate · owed per partner; the CSV
ladder --slots --floor · the rung named
NEVER
Attribute an order outside the window
Compute what is owed with no rate on record
Move money — the ledger is the copy you check
IT MAKES tag — the partner's link, marked; landing — a landing read for its mark; the click written, the window named; order — an order written: attributed inside the window, or not, with the reason; settle — clicks, orders, revenue, owed per partner; the payout run as CSV; ladder — each partner's rung on the 34- and 89-day windows.
THE STANDARD the window is thirty-four days; no rate, no figure; the ladder is read, not felt; the platform's statement pays; a mark is a word; the ledger appends.
PROOF SELFTEST 15/15 · witnessed in Claude 2026-10-10 · Edition 1.
THE SEAL 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong and can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date; check what matters against your own records and the source; the risk is yours. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · AE0771ADECF3015F58BB67C7
CITE THIS CARDTHE CANOPY CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=canopy-card. Punch AE0771ADECF3015F58BB67C7. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Keeps the ledger of partner commerce on two rails: tags a partner's link with their mark; reads a landing for the mark and holds the click for thirty-four days; writes an order as attributed when a click of that partner stands inside the window, or as not attributed with the reason; settles a period per partner — clicks, orders, revenue and what is owed at the rate the agreement sets, with no figure for a partner who has no rate on record — and writes the payout run as CSV; reads the ladder from revenue per slot-day over the last 34 and 89 days and names the rung: COMMISSION (sold by the maker, the link carries the mark), STOCKED (sold here, shipped by them), OWNED (bought in and sold as our own).
It carries a machine that shows its working: tag — the partner's link, marked; landing — a landing read for its mark; the click written, the window named; order — an order written: attributed inside the window, or not, with the reason; settle — clicks, orders, revenue, owed per partner; the payout run as CSV; ladder — each partner's rung on the 34- and 89-day windows — 15 checks in its selftest, every command on the record. It will never attribute an order outside the window; never compute what is owed with no rate on record; never move money — the ledger is the copy you check.
Six laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
THE WINDOW IS THIRTY-FOUR DAYSA click older than that attributes nothing; an order with no click is written down as not attributed, with the reason, never dropped.
NO RATE, NO FIGUREWhat is owed is computed at the rate the agreement sets; a partner with no rate on record gets clicks, orders and revenue, and the words "no rate on record".
THE LADDER IS READ, NOT FELTRevenue per slot-day over the last 34 and 89 days; STOCKED at the floor on both, OWNED at twice the floor on both with no gap over thirteen days; COMMISSION otherwise.
THE PLATFORM'S STATEMENT PAYSWhere a commission platform sits in the middle, its statement is what is paid on; this ledger is the copy it is checked against.
A MARK IS A WORDA mark is a word, two to forty letters, digits, hyphens or underscores; a link carries one mark, and a stale mark is dropped when a new one is set.
THE LEDGER APPENDSNothing is rewritten; a wrong line is answered by a right one with its date.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE GUIDEreferences/TWO-RAILS-AND-A-LADDER.md
THE MACHINEmanifold.py · five commandstag — the partner's link, marked; landing — a landing read for its mark; the click written, the window named; order — an order written: attributed inside the window, or not, with the reason; settle — clicks, orders, revenue, owed per partner; the payout run as CSV; ladder — each partner's rung on the 34- and 89-day windows. Every command prints its working and refuses a bad input; 15 checks in its selftest, every command on the record.
What it does once your AI has it.
tag The partner's link, marked
landing A landing read for its mark; the click written, the window named
order An order written: attributed inside the window, or not, with the reason
settle Clicks, orders, revenue, owed per partner; the payout run as CSV
ladder Each partner's rung on the 34- and 89-day windows
On the record A link marked for a partner; a landing on it written as a click with its window; one order inside the window attributed, one after it written as not attributed with the reason, one for a partner with no click likewise; the settlement owed at twenty percent for the partner with a rate and gave no figure for the one without; the ladder named each rung from revenue per slot-day.
What it will never do.
It will never attribute an order outside the window; never compute what is owed with no rate on record; never move money — the ledger is the copy you check.
The ledger holds what was written into it: a landing someone forgot to record attributes nothing, and an order typed with the wrong partner attributes wrongly. It moves no money and signs no agreement; the rate, the window and the floor are the owner's, and the agreement with a partner is the paper that binds. Not legal or tax advice. It is an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong, so check what matters against your own records and the source.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card: who it is, its laws, when it says no, what it carries · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes, for you
TWO-RAILS-AND-A-LADDER.md — the guide in references/, in the card's own voice
scripts/manifold.py — the machine: tag · landing · order · settle · ladder, standard library only, selftest 15/15
WITNESS.md + SELFTEST.md — every command on the record, as it printed · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
MY-LEDGER.md — the card's memory, on your own machine · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · HOSTS.md
card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html, the card as one offline file · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code and MCP hosts (rules/, system/, mcp/)
PROOF · SELFTEST 15/15 · 5 COMMANDS ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-10-10 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH AE0771ADECF3015F58BB67C7
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.
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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 medical, legal, tax or financial advice, never the person’s boss, and not a licence to practise. The terms →
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.
A TERM, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION: NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF AND NOBODY IS CHARGED AGAIN. WHEN A TERM ENDS THE FILES STAY ON YOUR COMPUTER AND STAY READABLE — FREEZE, NOT LOSS.
THE MACHINE · IN THE OPEN · FROM THE WITNESSED RUN OF 2026-10-10
manifold.py, every command showing its working.
A small Python program, standard library only. Your AI runs it; you can too. Every block below is pasted from the card’s own WITNESS.md, as printed.
tag
the partner's link, marked
landing
a landing read for its mark; the click written, the window named
order
an order written: attributed inside the window, or not, with the reason
settle
clicks, orders, revenue, owed per partner; the payout run as CSV
ladder
each partner's rung on the 34- and 89-day windows
selftest
15 checks that prove the machine; it must print 15/15
tag · THE PARTNER'S LINK, MARKED
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py tag https://example.test/shop?view=bay --partner maker-a --campaign spring
https://example.test/shop?view=bay&ref=maker-a&utm_source=maker-a&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=spring
landing · A LANDING READ FOR ITS MARK; THE CLICK WRITTEN, THE WINDOW NAMED
order · AN ORDER WRITTEN: ATTRIBUTED INSIDE THE WINDOW, OR NOT, WITH THE REASON
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py order ledger.jsonl --partner maker-a --total 40 --order A-1001 --date 2026-10-20
order A-1001 · maker-a · 40.00 · attributed to the click of 2026-10-01
order · AN ORDER WRITTEN: ATTRIBUTED INSIDE THE WINDOW, OR NOT, WITH THE REASON
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py order ledger.jsonl --partner maker-a --total 25 --order A-1002 --date 2026-11-10
order A-1002 · maker-a · 25.00 · NOT attributed: the last click was 2026-10-01, 40 days before
order · AN ORDER WRITTEN: ATTRIBUTED INSIDE THE WINDOW, OR NOT, WITH THE REASON
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py order ledger.jsonl --partner maker-b --total 10 --order B-1 --date 2026-10-05
order B-1 · maker-b · 10.00 · NOT attributed: no click for this partner on the ledger
settle · CLICKS, ORDERS, REVENUE, OWED PER PARTNER; THE PAYOUT RUN AS CSV
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py settle ledger.jsonl --rate maker-a=20 --csv payout.csv
maker-a clicks 1 orders 1 revenue 40.00 rate 20% owed 8.00 · 1 not attributed
maker-b clicks 0 orders 0 revenue 0.00 rate — owed no rate on record — nothing computed · 1 not attributed
payout run written to payout.csv
ladder · EACH PARTNER'S RUNG ON THE 34- AND 89-DAY WINDOWS
$ python3 scripts/manifold.py ladder ledger.jsonl --slots 2 --floor 0.5 --today 2026-11-12
maker-a COMMISSION per slot-day: 34d 0.59 · 89d 0.22 · longest gap 65 days
maker-b COMMISSION per slot-day: 34d 0.00 · 89d 0.00 · longest gap 89 days
THE NUMBERS, NAMES AND DATES IN THESE RUNS ARE THE STUDIO’S OWN EXAMPLES, INVENTED FOR THE RECORD; NO REAL COMPANY, PERSON OR PROPERTY IS NAMED.
QUESTIONS AT THE TABLE
Asked before the wire.
What does it need from me?
Tag <url> --partner · the marked link. It asks first for the partner's mark, the agreed rate, the slots a partner holds and the floor the owner sets for the ladder.
Does it send anything anywhere?
No. The machine is a standard-library Python program that runs on your own computer and sends nothing anywhere; the words run wherever an AI reads Markdown. No server, no account, no key.
What is on the record?
The self-test (15/15) and every command run on real example inputs, pasted into WITNESS.md as they printed; the punch on the face is the SHA-256 of SKILL.md, so a downloaded copy can be checked against this room.
Can it be wrong?
Yes — it is an AI reading a text file. The ledger holds what was written into it: a landing someone forgot to record attributes nothing, and an order typed with the wrong partner attributes wrongly. It moves no money and signs no agreement; the rate, the window and the floor are the owner's, and the agreement with a partner is the paper that binds. Not legal or tax advice.
What will it never do?
It will never attribute an order outside the window; never compute what is owed with no rate on record; never move money — the ledger is the copy you check.
