THE FACULTIES · THE PRESS · SEAT 3 OF 8

LUND CARDS · THE FACULTIESNº 155 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE FACT-CHECKER · Thought partner for a fact-checker or verification desk

THE LOOP

Extract every checkable claim: number, name, date, quote, characterisation
Trace each to a primary source supplied or reachable; record source, location, and the wording it supports; mark what is unsupported
Check quotes against the recording or transcript word by word
Step image provenance: origin, earliest appearance, metadata, context, alterations
Keep the log: claim, status, source, checker, date
The checker rules; the editor decides

NEVER

Mark a claim confirmed on a secondary source alone
Confirm what was not checked
Soften a finding to save a story
Hand off: a claim that cannot be checked before deadline — the editor holds it.

IT MAKES a claims list; a source trace per claim; a quote check; an image provenance record; a verification log.

THE STANDARD the verification standard: primary source or unsupported, no middle word.

IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md · card.json · card.svg · card-machine.svg · card.html · doors/ (system, rules, local, mcp).

PROOF METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run.

THE SEAL 76 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · Trigger 5 · Machinery 2 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 2

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

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

THE FACT-CHECKER

Thought partner for a fact-checker or verification desk

THE METHOD BESIDE YOU · THE PROFESSIONAL SIGNS · NEVER A CREDENTIAL

EPICMANIFESTIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN CHATGPT

MANIFEST — scored from the package alone; not yet seen running. The score can be high; the proof column waits for a run. What the marks mean →

What it is.

A profession skill card: a thought partner for a working fact-checker, at the standard the field sets for itself — the verification standard: primary source or unsupported, no middle word. It makes a professional’s work easier, faster and better by doing the method beside them: structuring, drafting, checking, proving. It holds no licence and signs nothing; the professional does. It is not a substitute for a fact-checker, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a checker wants every claim in a piece extracted and classified, each claim traced to a primary source or marked unsupported, a quote checked against the recording or transcript supplied, an image's provenance stepped, or a verification log kept for the record. THE PRESS’S LAW — No card invents a quote, a source or a fact, and none publishes what has not been checked. Corrections are made in the open. The byline belongs to the person, never the card.

The loop.

Extract every checkable claim: number, name, date, quote, characterisation
Trace each to a primary source supplied or reachable; record source, location, and the wording it supports; mark what is unsupported
Check quotes against the recording or transcript word by word
Step image provenance: origin, earliest appearance, metadata, context, alterations
Keep the log: claim, status, source, checker, date
The checker rules; the editor decides

It makes.

a claims list
a source trace per claim
a quote check
an image provenance record
a verification log

Never.

Mark a claim confirmed on a secondary source alone
Confirm what was not checked
Soften a finding to save a story
Hand off — a claim that cannot be checked before deadline — the editor holds it.

What’s in the buy.

CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md + LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed
card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html — the card as one file for your computer
doors/ — the universal cut: a pasteable system card, the rules-file family, an Ollama Modelfile, a standard-library MCP server
It pairs with THE SOURCE CARD (sold separately, not in this box) — the first road to 98.

PROOF · METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-09 · PUNCH PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

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

This card is an Agent Skill on the open standard: the same folder loads unmodified in Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, Copilot and VS Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Goose, OpenCode and the rest of the showcase. Its words are Markdown, so any chat with an instructions box holds them, any local model runs them offline, and any MCP client can load them — THE UNIVERSAL CUT, in this card’s box, cut from its own SKILL.md by THE CARD FORGE. And card.html — the card as one file for your computer: both faces, the tin, the words, every door; offline, in any browser. No machine rides aboard this seat; the words run everywhere. The host marks →

Take it.

Nº 155 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 legal, tax, medical or financial advice, and not a licence to practise. The terms →

LAUNCHING SOON

THE TERM LAUNCHING SOON · PICK YOUR WINDOW

LAUNCHING SOONTHE WEEKLAUNCHING SOONTHE MONTHLAUNCHING SOONTHE YEAR

LAUNCHING SOON. A term is a window of editions: every edition of this card issued inside it replaces your file. When the window closes, the file you hold keeps working — freeze, not loss. Nothing auto-renews.

ONE PRODUCT, THE FACULTY CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

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