WAKES WHEN photos should come out in the sun grade, or someone asks for the long arm look
THE LOOP
crops · the centre window, by eye
write crops.json where it would slice
grade · three or four frames a run
posting files first, then masters
verify · the same pixel twice
NEVER
Tune a number of the recipe
Add a vignette, a border or a fitted frame
Call this the original script's pixels
IT MAKES grade — masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files in the sun grade; crops — the centre 4:5 window marked on each photo; recipe — every number of the grade, in words; verify — two runs, two hashes: DETERMINISTIC or DRIFT.
THE STANDARD the numbers are fixed; no vignette, ever; full-bleed only; anchors by eye; posting files apart; same pixel every run.
PROOF SELFTEST 8/8 · witnessed in Claude 2026-10-11 · 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 · 6B5D194D52444AB6D7DD6D14
CITE THIS CARDTHE LONG ARM CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=long-arm-card. Punch 6B5D194D52444AB6D7DD6D14. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
What it is.
The studio's sun grade, THE LONG ARM GRADE v1, as a machine. grade runs every photo through the fixed recipe (gold white balance, a lifted tone curve, amber shadows and gold highlights, a gold corona screened in from above the top edge, gold halation off the whites, reds, oranges and yellows kept vivid, greens pulled toward pine, blues cooled, clarity, seeded grain, a colour finish and sharpening, no vignette) and writes masters and 1080 x 1350 full-bleed feed files in separate folders; crops marks the centre 4:5 window so anchors are chosen before any run; recipe prints every number in words; verify grades twice and compares the hashes. PNG in and out.
It carries a machine that shows its working: grade — masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files in the sun grade; crops — the centre 4:5 window marked on each photo; recipe — every number of the grade, in words; verify — two runs, two hashes: DETERMINISTIC or DRIFT — 8 checks in its selftest, every command on the record. It will never tune a number of the recipe; never add a vignette, a border or a fitted frame; never call this the original script's pixels.
Six laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
THE NUMBERS ARE FIXEDThe recipe is THE LONG ARM GRADE v1; a different feel is a new named grade built beside it.
NO VIGNETTE, EVERThe corona lifts from above; nothing darkens the edges.
FULL-BLEED ONLYThe feed is a 4:5 crop at the chosen anchor, never a fitted frame, never a border.
ANCHORS BY EYEThe crops sheet is read before a run; crops.json holds an anchor where the centre would slice.
POSTING FILES APART1080 x 1350 files go in their own folder, with the size in each name; masters in another, not for posting.
SAME PIXEL EVERY RUNThe grain is seeded; verify proves two runs agree.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE GUIDEreferences/THE-LONG-ARM-GRADE.md
THE MACHINElongarm.py · four commandsgrade — masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files in the sun grade; crops — the centre 4:5 window marked on each photo; recipe — every number of the grade, in words; verify — two runs, two hashes: DETERMINISTIC or DRIFT. Every command prints its working and refuses a bad input; 8 checks in its selftest, every command on the record.
What it does once your AI has it.
grade Masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files in the sun grade
crops The centre 4:5 window marked on each photo
recipe Every number of the grade, in words
verify Two runs, two hashes: DETERMINISTIC or DRIFT
On the record The recipe prints every number of THE LONG ARM GRADE v1 with no vignette. The crops sheet marks both frames, two frames are graded into masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files (the first kept at its top by its anchor), and verify gives one hash twice. An anchor of 1.5 is refused, and so is a HEIC photo.
What it will never do.
It will never tune a number of the recipe; never add a vignette, a border or a fitted frame; never call this the original script's pixels.
A standard-library rebuild: the recorded numbers of THE LONG ARM GRADE v1 run through the house pipeline, PNG in and out; it does not reproduce the original script's pixels, which came from imaging libraries and JPEG, and the hue bands follow the house engine's band shape. JPEG, HEIC, 16-bit, palette and interlaced PNG and video are refused. Pure Python takes seconds per megapixel. It grades; it does not retouch, remove objects or replace a sky. 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
THE-LONG-ARM-GRADE.md — the guide in references/, in the card's own voice
scripts/longarm.py — the machine: grade · crops · recipe · verify, standard library only, selftest 8/8
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 8/8 · 4 COMMANDS ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-10-11 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 6B5D194D52444AB6D7DD6D14
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 51 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 2026-10-11
longarm.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.
grade
masters and 1080 x 1350 feed files in the sun grade
crops
the centre 4:5 window marked on each photo
recipe
every number of the grade, in words
verify
two runs, two hashes: DETERMINISTIC or DRIFT
selftest
8 checks that prove the machine; it must print 8/8
recipe · EVERY NUMBER OF THE GRADE, IN WORDS
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py recipe
THE LONG ARM GRADE v1 · the sun grade · every number, in the order the pipeline runs
white balance · red x 1.046, blue x 0.955: gold light
tone curve · 0 to 0.012, 0.06 to 0.096, 0.25 to 0.290, 0.50 to 0.545, 0.75 to 0.800, 0.94 to 0.948, 1 to 0.984: blacks a touch lifted, whites a touch soft
split tone · shadows amber (red +0.010, green +0.003, blue -0.012) by (1 - L) squared x 0.6; highlights gold (red +0.032, green +0.015, blue -0.030) by L cubed
corona · gold (1.00, 0.82, 0.50) screened in at 0.19 from a centre 15% above the top edge, radius 1.0, squared falloff, weighted 0.35 + 0.65 x L so it never fogs the blacks
halation · gold (1.00, 0.90, 0.70) at 0.24 off everything brighter than 0.66 (to the power 1.5), blurred at quarter scale (40 px on an 8,000 px frame, scaled to the frame)
hue bands (0..255 hue scale) · red 247..8 saturation +12% · orange 14..36 +14% · yellow 36..54 +10% and 3 toward gold · green 55..120 -12% and 3 toward pine · blue 128..185 -8% · magenta 196..248 +10% and 1.5% brighter
clarity · 0.14 at quarter scale
grain · 0.0045, seed 618, kept out of the whites (x (1 - 0.65 x L))
finish · colour 1.06, then an unsharp mask of radius 2.2, 58%, threshold 2
vignette · none, ever
feed · 1080 x 1350 px, 4:5, full-bleed at the anchor in crops.json (0 keeps the top, 0.5 the centre, 1 the bottom); never a fitted frame, never a border
the numbers are never tuned; a different look is a new named grade built beside this one
crops · THE CENTRE 4:5 WINDOW MARKED ON EACH PHOTO
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py crops frame-01.png frame-02.png --out crops.png --size 120
crops sheet crops.png · 180 x 88 px · red lines are the centre 4:5 window, blue ticks the tenths
tiles in order: frame-01, frame-02
where the window would slice a face, a crest or a wordmark, write crops.json: {"<photo name>": anchor}, 0 keeps the top, 1 the bottom
grade · MASTERS AND 1080 X 1350 FEED FILES IN THE SUN GRADE
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py grade frame-01.png frame-02.png --out sun --crops crops.json
graded frame-01.png · LONGARM · master 48 x 64 px · feed 1080 x 1350 px full-bleed at anchor 0.00
graded frame-02.png · LONGARM · master 72 x 48 px · feed 1080 x 1350 px full-bleed at anchor 0.50
2 photo(s) · posting files in instagram-1080x1350 · masters in masters-not-for-instagram (not for Instagram)
verify · TWO RUNS, TWO HASHES: DETERMINISTIC OR DRIFT
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py verify frame-02.png
run 1 · 9528d002ae855f9d4a677c18
run 2 · 9528d002ae855f9d4a677c18
DETERMINISTIC · the same pixel both runs
grade · MASTERS AND 1080 X 1350 FEED FILES IN THE SUN GRADE
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py grade frame-01.png --out sun2 --crops bad-crops.json
the anchor for frame-01 is 1.5: anchors run from 0 (keep the top) to 1 (keep the bottom)
verify · TWO RUNS, TWO HASHES: DETERMINISTIC OR DRIFT
$ python3 scripts/longarm.py verify frame.heic
frame.heic is a HEIC photo or a video: save a PNG still first
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?
Crops · the centre window, by eye. It asks first for the photos as PNG, and an anchor for any frame whose centre window would slice a face, a crest or a wordmark.
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 (8/8) 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. A standard-library rebuild: the recorded numbers of THE LONG ARM GRADE v1 run through the house pipeline, PNG in and out; it does not reproduce the original script's pixels, which came from imaging libraries and JPEG, and the hue bands follow the house engine's band shape. JPEG, HEIC, 16-bit, palette and interlaced PNG and video are refused. Pure Python takes seconds per megapixel. It grades; it does not retouch, remove objects or replace a sky.
What will it never do?
It will never tune a number of the recipe; never add a vignette, a border or a fitted frame; never call this the original script's pixels.
