THE HOME GROUND · THE MARKET ROW · Nº 1229 · EDITION 1 · LAUNCHING SOON

LUND CARDS · THE HOME GROUNDNº 1229

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE HONEST CREST · Heraldic art sold with cleared licences and words that claim no more than the record shows.

WAKES WHEN A seller adds a surname crest design. · Product copy says 'your family coat of arms'. · A product page needs its provenance line.

THE LOOP

Check each design's art licence
Check copy for entitlement claims
Offer the honest wording
Write the provenance line

NEVER

Never claims arms by surname alone
Never sells art without a cleared licence
Never says authentic or official without evidence

IT MAKES check-art — each design needs art_licence and licence_scope; missing → NOT CLEARED; check-copy — flag entitlement and authenticity phrases the design's record cannot support, with the honest wording to use instead; label — the provenance line for the product page; refuses a design that is NOT CLEARED; export — every design with its clearance as JSON.

THE LAW Arms conventions differ by country, and a surname is not a grant. The card keeps every claim inside what the record shows and every design inside its licence.

IN THE BOX SKILL.md · CARD.md · ▣ scripts/crest.py (machine) · ▣ scripts/evals.py (test runner) · tests/EVALS.json (8 tests) · references/ (schema + fictional demo) · START-HERE.md · system/ doors · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · card.svg · card.json · card.html · AUDIT.md · MANIFEST.md · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md.

PROOF SELFTEST 13/13 · witnessed in Claude 2026-10-13 on fictional fixtures · the test prompts in fresh chats owed · Edition 1.

THE SEAL 96 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 4

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. LICENSE-NOTE.md rides in the packet and is the licence.

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · B73A628618DD52883AD1F4D6

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

THE HONEST CREST

Heraldic art sold with cleared licences and words that claim no more than the record shows.

CHECK-ART · CHECK-COPY · LABEL · EXPORT

LEGENDARYWITNESSEDIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN 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: 96 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED
EDITION: E1 · witnessed 2026-10-13
MACHINE: scripts/crest.py · 4 commands · selftest 13/13
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 (START-HERE.md and system/ name each door)
LICENCE: One person, any number of their own AIs and computers · editions replace files · nothing renews · freeze, not loss
PUNCH: B73A628618DD52883AD1F4D6 · sha-256 of SKILL.md · check any file against it →

CITE THIS CARDTHE HONEST CREST, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=honest-crest-card. Punch B73A628618DD52883AD1F4D6. Retrieved 2026-10-13.

What it is.

Use when selling surname heraldry products: checking each design's art licence and checking product copy for claims the record cannot support. Not for granting or tracing arms.

It carries a machine that shows its working: check-art — each design needs art_licence and licence_scope; missing → NOT CLEARED; check-copy — flag entitlement and authenticity phrases the design's record cannot support, with the honest wording to use instead; label — the provenance line for the product page; refuses a design that is NOT CLEARED; export — every design with its clearance as JSON — 13 checks in its selftest. It never claims arms by surname alone; never sells art without a cleared licence; never says authentic or official without evidence.

The law, written into the card.

It is in the card itself, so the AI follows it.

THE LAWArms conventions differ by country, and a surname is not a grant. The card keeps every claim inside what the record shows and every design inside its licence.

The method.

Record each design: the surname, where the art came from, its licence and scope, and the tradition it comes from (an individual grant, family arms, sept or clan arms, or unknown).
Check every design's licence. Missing or out of scope prints NOT CLEARED.
Check product copy for claims of entitlement or authenticity, set against the design's tradition, and offer the honest wording: arms associated with the surname, with the tradition named.
Write the provenance line for the product page.

What you bring.

Your designs, their art sources, licences and scope.
Each design's tradition and a note on it.
Your product copy.

Nothing of the studio's is needed; the data is yours.

What it does once your AI has it.

check-art Each design needs art_licence and licence_scope; missing → NOT CLEARED
check-copy Flag entitlement and authenticity phrases the design's record cannot support, with the honest wording to use instead
label The provenance line for the product page; refuses a design that is NOT CLEARED
export Every design with its clearance as JSON

What it will never do.

It never claims arms by surname alone; never sells art without a cleared licence; never says authentic or official without evidence.

Where it hands off: Arms for an individual → the relevant heraldic authority; Family history → THE EMIGRANT TRAIL; Listing claims about origin → THE PROVENANCE FILE.

It is not legal or heraldic advice. It is an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong, so check what matters against your own records and the source. The holder brings their own AI; no endorsement by Anthropic or any other AI company is claimed.

What’s in the buy.

SKILL.md — the card your AI reads: when it wakes, the loop, the never-lines, the hand-offs.
CARD.md — the whole card in ten sections: face, law, method, machine, what you bring, never, tests, seal, term.
scripts/crest.py — the machine, Python standard library only; `selftest` proves it on its own fixtures.
tests/EVALS.json and scripts/evals.py — 8 test prompts and the offline runner that scores your AI's answers.
references/ — the data schema and FICTIONAL demo files, invented to show the machine, not real.
MY-LEDGER.md — your own record of what you asked and what you decided.
START-HERE.md, system/short-prompt.md, system/rules.md — the doors, for any AI with or without skills.
card.svg, card.json, card.html, AUDIT.md, MANIFEST.md, WITNESS.md, SELFTEST.md — the faces and the proof.
NOT IN THE BOX — nothing of the studio's is needed; the data is yours. Also not in the box: any data you must bring, and advice of any kind (not legal or heraldic advice).

PROOF · SELFTEST 13/13 · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-10-13 ON FICTIONAL FIXTURES · THE TEST PROMPTS IN FRESH CHATS OWED · EDITION 1 · PUNCH B73A628618DD52883AD1F4D6

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 1229 — 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 · 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.

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 CARD’S OWN SELFTEST.MD

crest.py, every command showing its working.

A small Python program, standard library only. Your AI runs it; you can too. The block below is pasted from the card’s own SELFTEST.md, as printed when it was run from inside the packet.

`check-art`	each design needs art_licence and licence_scope; missing → NOT CLEARED
`check-copy`	flag entitlement and authenticity phrases the design's record cannot support, with the honest wording to use instead
`label`	the provenance line for the product page; refuses a design that is NOT CLEARED
`export`	every design with its clearance as JSON
`selftest`	13 checks that prove the machine; it must print selftest 13/13

THE SELFTEST, AS PRINTED

ok  1  check-art prints the conventions line, clears D1/D2/D4 and marks D3 NOT CLEARED
ok  2  check-art says LICENCE DATE NOT ON FILE rather than guess one
ok  3  individual-grant: "your family's coat of arms" flagged with the honest wording
ok  4  'authentic' and 'official' flagged without evidence
ok  5  family tradition supports family wording; authenticity still needs evidence
ok  6  with --evidence the authenticity claims pass and cite the file's hash (exit 0)
ok  7  'your coat of arms' is flagged even for a family tradition
ok  8  copy for an uncleared design is flagged even when the wording fits
ok  9  label gives the provenance line from the record
ok  10  label refuses an uncleared design
ok  11  an unknown design is bad input (exit 2)
ok  12  a tradition outside the list is bad input (exit 2)
ok  13  export gives the same bytes twice
selftest 13/13

THE RUN IS PASTED FROM THE CARD’S OWN SELFTEST.MD AS PRINTED. ITS FIXTURES ARE FICTIONAL, INVENTED FOR THE TEST; NO PRIVATE PERSON IS NAMED.

QUESTIONS AT THE TABLE

Asked before the wire.

What does it need from me?

Your designs, their art sources, licences and scope. Each design's tradition and a note on it. Your product copy. If something it needs is missing, it says what is missing and stops there.

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 machine's selftest (13/13), run from inside the packet in Claude on 2026-10-13 on fictional fixtures and pasted into SELFTEST.md as printed; the twelve-check audit (AUDIT.md). Owed, and said so in WITNESS.md: The 8 test prompts asked in fresh chats with the card installed. Until they are run and scored, the tests are owed. Any run on real data. Every demo file is fictional. 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 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. LICENSE-NOTE.md rides in the packet and is the licence. It is not legal or heraldic advice.

What will it never do?

It never claims arms by surname alone; never sells art without a cleared licence; never says authentic or official without evidence.

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