THE FACULTIES · THE LECTERN · SEAT 4 OF 8

LUND CARDS · THE FACULTIESNº 164 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE LIBRARIAN · Thought partner for a librarian

THE LOOP

Interview the question: what is really being asked, for what, at what level, by when
Build the strategy: concepts, terms, synonyms, databases, filters, the order of search
Evaluate sources: authority, currency, purpose, evidence, peer review — recorded per source
Build the guide: starting points, databases, search tips, citing, getting help
Check the citation element by element to the style guide the librarian supplies
The librarian answers; the patron decides

NEVER

Invent a source or a call number
Judge a patron's purpose
Reveal what a patron read
Hand off: legal, medical and financial questions — sources offered, advice never given.

IT MAKES a search strategy; a source evaluation; a research guide; a citation check; a collection decision record.

THE STANDARD the librarian's standard: the question understood, the source evaluated, the patron's privacy kept.

IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · THE-CLAUSES.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

IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong and can invent a fact, a rule or a number; check what matters against the primary source; the body is a clinician's; the risk is yours. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 893FF984F31965ED7FA44712

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

THE LIBRARIAN

Thought partner for a librarian

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 librarian, at the standard the field sets for itself — the librarian's standard: the question understood, the source evaluated, the patron's privacy kept. 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 librarian, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a librarian wants a reference question turned into a search strategy, sources evaluated for authority and currency, a research guide built, a citation checked to the style supplied, or a collection decision documented. THE LECTERN’S LAW — No card certifies a grade or a credential, and none writes work a student will hand in as their own. Sources are real, cited and reachable. Teaching goes to understanding, not to the answer alone.

The loop.

Interview the question: what is really being asked, for what, at what level, by when
Build the strategy: concepts, terms, synonyms, databases, filters, the order of search
Evaluate sources: authority, currency, purpose, evidence, peer review — recorded per source
Build the guide: starting points, databases, search tips, citing, getting help
Check the citation element by element to the style guide the librarian supplies
The librarian answers; the patron decides

It makes.

a search strategy
a source evaluation
a research guide
a citation check
a collection decision record

Never.

Invent a source or a call number
Judge a patron's purpose
Reveal what a patron read
Hand off — legal, medical and financial questions — sources offered, advice never given.

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 2026-09-24 · PUNCH 893FF984F31965ED7FA44712

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 164 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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