THE DAILIES CARD · a shot turned into stills and numbers
WAKES WHEN an animation was made and nobody watched it, or a walk looks like its feet slide
THE LOOP
render the shot to numbered PNG frames
contact and onion · the shot as stills
track · the path and spacing, measured
report · notes ranked, flashes first
compare · before and after, same shot
NEVER
Pass a shot that flashes
Call motion smooth without the numbers
Judge a shot from its first frame alone
IT MAKES contact — the numbered contact sheet; onion — chosen frames in one still; track — the path and spacing, measured; report — notes ranked; exit 1 on FLASH RISK; compare — before and after, same shot.
THE STANDARD stills, not motion; no flashes; ranked by what shows; same shot, before and after; big enough to read; measured from the output.
PROOF SELFTEST 13/13 · witnessed in Claude 2026-10-12 · 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 · 84B705B787D120EF67FDEA53
CITE THIS CARDTHE DAILIES CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=dailies-card. Punch 84B705B787D120EF67FDEA53. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
What it is.
A shot turned into things an AI can read, because an AI reads stills, not motion. contact tiles the frames into one numbered sheet, every tile 200 px or more; onion overlays chosen frames so the arc shows in one still; track measures the figure's centre, box and area frame by frame and draws the motion path; report writes plain notes ranked by how much they show (pops, frozen frames, volume swings, a sliding foot, off-model colours against a character spec, and flashes, which fail the shot); compare shows before and after on the same shot with every measure.
It carries a machine that shows its working: contact — the numbered contact sheet; onion — chosen frames in one still; track — the path and spacing, measured; report — notes ranked; exit 1 on FLASH RISK; compare — before and after, same shot — 13 checks in its selftest, every command on the record. It will never pass a shot that flashes; never call motion smooth without the numbers; never judge a shot from its first frame alone.
Six laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
STILLS, NOT MOTIONEvery judgement comes from stills and numbers the card wrote, never from a guess about how it moves.
NO FLASHESMore than three flashes in any second is FLASH RISK, ranked first; the shot is not shown until it is fixed.
RANKED BY WHAT SHOWSNotes come in the order an audience would notice them, each with its frame numbers.
SAME SHOT, BEFORE AND AFTERA fix is shown on the same frames, with every measure beside the old one.
BIG ENOUGH TO READEvery tile is at least 200 px, on white.
MEASURED FROM THE OUTPUTSpacing is read from the frames, not from the plan.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE GUIDEreferences/READING-DAILIES.md
THE MACHINEdailies.py · five commandscontact — the numbered contact sheet; onion — chosen frames in one still; track — the path and spacing, measured; report — notes ranked; exit 1 on FLASH RISK; compare — before and after, same shot. Every command prints its working and refuses a bad input; 13 checks in its selftest, every command on the record.
What it does once your AI has it.
contact The numbered contact sheet
onion Chosen frames in one still
track The path and spacing, measured
report Notes ranked; exit 1 on FLASH RISK
compare Before and after, same shot
On the record The contact sheet tiles all 16 frames; the report names the pop on frame 7 and the sliding foot; compare shows the fixed walk with 0 notes against 3. The strobe is FLASH RISK, ranked first, and the report exits 1.
What it will never do.
It will never pass a shot that flashes; never call motion smooth without the numbers; never judge a shot from its first frame alone.
It reads 8-bit RGB or RGBA PNG frames that someone rendered first; it does not render, play or decode video. Foot slide reads one colour touching one ground line; flashes are read from the whole frame's light, not from small areas or saturated red alone. The notes find faults; whether the acting works is a person's call. 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
READING-DAILIES.md — the guide in references/, in the card's own voice
scripts/dailies.py — the machine: contact · onion · track · report · compare, standard library only, selftest 13/13
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 13/13 · 5 COMMANDS ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-10-12 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 84B705B787D120EF67FDEA53
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 1190 PROPOSED — LAUNCHING SOON
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 2026-10-12
dailies.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.
contact
the numbered contact sheet
onion
chosen frames in one still
track
the path and spacing, measured
report
notes ranked; exit 1 on FLASH RISK
compare
before and after, same shot
selftest
13 checks that prove the machine; it must print 13/13
a-walk/: 16 frames of Ona the bell-founder walking, drawn for this record, with a pop planted on frame 7 and t
ona-walk/: 16 frames of Ona the bell-founder walking, drawn for this record, with a pop planted on frame 7 and the planted foot sliding. ona-walk-fixed/: the same walk, fixed.
contact · THE NUMBERED CONTACT SHEET
$ python3 scripts/dailies.py contact ona-walk --out ona-contact.png
contact · 16 frames tiled at 266x200 px each, numbered, on white → ona-contact.png
onion · CHOSEN FRAMES IN ONE STILL
$ python3 scripts/dailies.py onion ona-walk --out ona-onion.png --frames 1,4,7,10,13,16
onion · frames 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 overlaid, the later the stronger, 266x200 → ona-onion.png
$ python3 scripts/dailies.py report ona-walk --fps 24 --character ona.character.json --foot #3A3478 --ground-y 70 --out ona-dailies
1. FOOT SLIDE a planted foot slides 24 px (1.57 heads) over frames 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15: it should not move while it holds the ground
2. POP frame 7 jumps 25 px from frame 6, where the shot's usual step is 3.5 px: a pop
3. POP frame 8 jumps 18 px from frame 7, where the shot's usual step is 3.5 px: a pop
READ · 16 frames · 3 notes · worst second 0 flashes → ona-dailies/DAILIES.md and dailies.json
compare · BEFORE AND AFTER, SAME SHOT
$ python3 scripts/dailies.py compare ona-walk ona-walk-fixed --fps 24 --out ona-compare.png --json ona-compare.json --foot #3A3478 --ground-y 70
compare · notes 3 → 0 · pop 2→0 · foot slide 1→0 → ona-compare.png
strobe/: 12 plain frames, black and white by turns, at 24 fps.
report · NOTES RANKED; EXIT 1 ON FLASH RISK
$ python3 scripts/dailies.py report strobe --fps 24 --out strobe-dailies
1. FLASH RISK frames 1 to 12 flash 5 times in under a second; the house law allows 3 at most, and so do the web's accessibility rules: this shot must not be shown
FLASH RISK · 12 frames · 1 note · worst second 5 flashes → strobe-dailies/DAILIES.md and dailies.json
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?
Render the shot to numbered PNG frames. It asks first for the shot as a folder of numbered PNG frames, its frame rate, and if it is to be checked, the character spec, the foot colour and the ground line.
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 (13/13) 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. It reads 8-bit RGB or RGBA PNG frames that someone rendered first; it does not render, play or decode video. Foot slide reads one colour touching one ground line; flashes are read from the whole frame's light, not from small areas or saturated red alone. The notes find faults; whether the acting works is a person's call.
What will it never do?
It will never pass a shot that flashes; never call motion smooth without the numbers; never judge a shot from its first frame alone.
