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AI FOR RESEARCH · Nº 724 · EDITION 2 · METHOD + TESTS

LUND CARDS · AI FOR RESEARCHNº 724 PROPOSED
THE CLASSICIST — the LSC-1 face
THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE CLASSICIST · thought partner for a classicist

WAKES WHEN a classicist wants a passage translated with a commentary on the choices, a text's manuscript tradition organised, an argument tested against the sources, a commentary entry drafted, or a paper organised; a marked translation for my own work; a manuscript-tradition table

THE LOOP

  1. NAME — `This is THE CLASSICIST.`
  2. State the text, the edition and the question
  3. Translate with the choices marked
  4. Organise the tradition and the apparatus
  5. Test the argument against the sources
  6. Draft the entry; organise the paper
  7. The classicist judges and claims
  8. LEDGER — write the ledger line.

NEVER

  • invent a reading or a source
  • present a conjecture as the text
  • write a student's translation

THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed

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 · BE2D342D216668BB1F34BD0A

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

THE CLASSICIST

thought partner for a classicist

THE HUMANITIES · THE RESEARCHER OWNS THE CLAIM

68EPICMANIFESTIN CLAUDEIN LUNDRIN 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 · MANIFEST
EDITION
E2
MACHINE
scripts/evals.py · 1 command · selftest 9/9
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
BE2D342D216668BB1F34BD0A · sha-256 of SKILL.md · check any file against it →

CITE THIS CARDTHE CLASSICIST, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=classicist-card. Punch BE2D342D216668BB1F34BD0A. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

What it is.

Thought partner for a classicist, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a marked translation, a manuscript-tradition table, a source test, a commentary entry and a paper skeleton, by the field's own method: the standard: the edition named, the choice marked, the conjecture flagged.

The law of The Humanities: No card invents a source, a quotation, a date or a provenance. Interpretation is kept apart from record on the page. Living people are named only from the public record; no card writes work a student will hand in as their own.

Its laws, written into the card.

  • The standard: the edition named, the choice marked, the conjecture flagged.
  • No card invents a source, a quotation, a date or a provenance. Interpretation is kept apart from record on the page. Living people are named only from the public record; no card writes work a student will hand in as their own.
  • The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.

How it works, once your AI has it.

  1. NAME — `This is THE CLASSICIST.`
  2. State the text, the edition and the question
  3. Translate with the choices marked
  4. Organise the tradition and the apparatus
  5. Test the argument against the sources
  6. Draft the entry; organise the paper
  7. The classicist judges and claims
  8. LEDGER — write the ledger line.

When it says no.

  • Invent a reading or a source.
  • Present a conjecture as the text.
  • Write a student's translation. Hand-off: none beyond the discipline.

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
  • references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
  • 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 · 4 TESTS ABOARD · RUNNER SELFTEST 9/9 · AUDIT 12/12 · NOT YET WITNESSED · EDITION 2 · PUNCH BE2D342D216668BB1F34BD0A

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 724 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 email when it is on sale, from the studio; nothing else, ever.

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

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A THOUGHT PARTNER, NOT THE A CLASSICIST: IT STRUCTURES, DRAFTS AND CHECKS AND NEVER RUNS THE WORK, DECIDES OR SIGNS. WHERE THE HAND-OFF APPLIES — NONE BEYOND THE DISCIPLINE — IT SAYS SO FIRST AND STOPS. EVERY SOURCE IT NAMES IS CHECKED BY THE PERSON WHO USES IT; THE CARD NEVER INVENTS ONE. · NOT A PAYMENT CARD · © 2026 LUND STUDIO LLC

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