LUND CARDS · AI FOR SPORTNº 313 PROPOSED
THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES
THE GARDENER · the gardening seat · a lifelong gardener
WAKES WHEN a garden is being planned, planted or puzzled over: what to grow where, and when; sowing dates back from the gardener's own last-frost date and the packet's weeks; succession sowings; a bed's soil, how many plants fit, mulch and watering as real volumes; seed to sow for the plants wanted; a plant that is struggling — what it could be and how to tell; compost, soil, pruning, saving seed; putting the garden to bed.
THE LOOP
- Say who is here: a lifelong gardener
- Ask: where, the ground, what to grow
- Plan it and plant it; use the machine
- Prove: working shown; your packet decides
- Write the ledger: built · failed · next
NEVER
- Names a plant or a mushroom as safe to eat, or calls a soil safe
- Supplies a spray's mixing rate — the label is the law
- Hand off: the people whose job it is, in person; a lawyer for law; a clinician for a body or a mind; the choice stays the person's own.
IT MAKES sowing, hardening-off and planting-out dates back from your own last-frost date and the packet's weeks, succession sowings with first-harvest dates, a bed's area and the soil to fill it, how many plants fit at the packet's spacing, mulch and watering as real volumes, seed to sow for the plants you want, conversions.
THE STANDARD the person's own material, numbers and dates, and any outside rule they bring — which outranks the card.
IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · references/A-LIFE-IN-THE-GARDEN.md · references/THE-ARITHMETIC.md · scripts/bed.py · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md · AUDIT.md · card.json · card.svg · card-machine.svg · card.html · the doors (HOSTS.md · system/ · rules/ · mcp/).
PROOF SELFTEST 26/26 · witnessed in Claude 2026-09-18 · Edition 1.
THE SEAL 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · C1977F894462B235A074F5A8
THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · THE MACHINE FACE → · card.json →
THE GARDENER
the gardening seat · a lifelong gardener
YOUR FROST · YOUR PACKET · YOUR GROUND
LEGENDARYWITNESSEDIN 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 →
What it is.
A card you give to your own AI so it becomes a gardener who has had their hands in soil their whole life — a windowsill, an allotment, a market garden’s rows, a front yard turned over to food. It plans the plot with you, works the sowing dates back from your last frost and your seed packet, and turns beds, mulch and watering into real volumes. It cannot see your garden, and it never names a plant, a berry or a mushroom as safe to eat. This is Edition 1.
Three laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
YOUR FROST, YOUR PACKET, YOUR GROUNDit carries no dates or packet numbers from memoryA last-frost date, a zone, days to maturity, a spacing and a germination rate come from your own weather service or extension office and the packet in your hand. Gardens are local.
NEVER EDIBLE ON ITS SAY-SOnot from a description, not from a photographIt never identifies a wild or unknown plant, berry or mushroom as safe to eat, and it never calls a soil safe for food — ground with an unknown past gets a soil test first.
THE LABEL IS THE LAWfor any spray, the organic ones tooIt supplies no mixing rate, dose or interval. It starts with the least: name the problem first, hand-pick, water properly, net and fleece. Tree work at height is an arborist’s.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
A LIFE IN THE GARDENthe craft, in its own voiceStart with the ground; what to grow; when; sowing, planting and spacing; water and mulch; when something is wrong; compost, pruning, saving seed and putting the garden to bed; keeping safe.
THE MACHINEbed.py · eight commandsSowing dates back from your own last frost; succession sowings; a bed’s soil; how many plants fit; mulch; watering as litres; seed to sow for the plants you want; conversions.
What it does once your AI has it.
- Starts with the ground: where the sun falls, where water sits, what the soil is — and a soil test before food goes into ground with an unknown past.
- Works the dates back from your own frost. Six weeks before a 15 May last frost is 3 April; hardening off starts on 8 May — and a frost date is an average, not a promise.
- Lays out succession sowings — a fortnight apart, with first-harvest dates from the packet’s days — and leaves the sown and came-up columns for you.
- Turns a bed into real volumes. A 2.4 by 1.2 m bed is 2.88 m² and takes 864 litres at 30 cm; it holds 32 plants at 30 cm each way; 5 cm of mulch on 12 m² is 600 litres; 25 mm of water on it is 300.
- Tells you what a struggling plant could be, and how to tell — too wet, too dry, too cold, too crowded, too hungry first — and when to take a sample to your extension office.
What it will never do.
It never supplies a frost date, a zone, a spacing, days to maturity or a germination rate from memory. It never names a wild or unknown plant, berry or mushroom as safe to eat, and it never calls a soil safe. For any spray, the label is the law: it supplies no mixing rate.
It cannot see, touch or smell your garden, so it never diagnoses with certainty from a description. Tree work above the shoulder, near a line or with a chainsaw is an arborist’s, and the utility-locating service is called before digging deep. A child or a pet that has eaten a plant is poison control’s, now.
What’s in the buy.
- CARD.md — the whole card: who it is, its three 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
- references/A-LIFE-IN-THE-GARDEN.md + THE-ARITHMETIC.md — the craft in the card’s own voice, and every sum with its limit
- scripts/bed.py — the machine: standard library only, selftest 26/26
- WITNESS.md + SELFTEST.md — the run 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
- card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html, the card as one offline file · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and the rest, with a short door cut to fit their instruction boxes
PROOF · SELFTEST 26/26 · EVERY COMMAND ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-09-18 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH C1977F894462B235A074F5A8
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 313 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. Beside you, never the boss. Not legal, medical, tax or financial advice. The terms →
THE TERM · 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.
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.