THE NEGOTIATION CARD · an agent bargaining inside its mandate
WAKES WHEN an agent bargains a price for someone, or someone wants limits set before they haggle
THE LOOP
mandate · floor, ceiling, terms, walk-away
offer · checked before it is made
their offers logged: inside or not
accept, or walk · the talks closed
history · every concession, the chain
NEVER
Make an offer outside the mandate
Accept a deal missing a must-have
Rewrite the log after the fact
IT MAKES mandate — the mandate to edit; offer — checked, then logged; accept — their last offer, only if inside; walk — the talks closed; history — every offer and concession, and the chain.
THE STANDARD the person sets the mandate; checked before it is made; every concession logged; no caving in one step; the log is a chain; walk away when it says.
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 · 4F5EDA50A68D2A73DD75A908
CITE THIS CARDTHE NEGOTIATION CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=negotiation-card. Punch 4F5EDA50A68D2A73DD75A908. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
What it is.
Two agents bargaining for their people, each inside a mandate, with every concession on the record. mandate writes the mandate to edit (side, floor and ceiling, must-have terms, never-terms, a walk-away by rounds or date, the largest single concession); offer checks each offer by our side before it is made, writes anything outside as REFUSED with every reason, records the other side's offers and says whether each is inside our mandate; accept agrees to their last offer only when it is inside; walk closes the talks; history lays out every offer and concession by side, the gap, and whether the SHA-256 chain still holds. It never pays, signs or speaks to the other side by itself. It waits on agent-to-agent commerce at scale; today it holds one side to its mandate, whoever is across the table.
It carries a machine that shows its working: mandate — the mandate to edit; offer — checked, then logged; accept — their last offer, only if inside; walk — the talks closed; history — every offer and concession, and the chain — 8 checks in its selftest, every command on the record. It will never make an offer outside the mandate; never accept a deal missing a must-have; never rewrite the log after the fact.
Six laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
THE PERSON SETS THE MANDATEFloor, ceiling, must-haves, never-terms and the walk-away are written before any offer; the card never suggests a price.
CHECKED BEFORE IT IS MADEAn offer outside the mandate is written as REFUSED, with every reason, and never made.
EVERY CONCESSION LOGGEDEach move toward the other side is recorded with its size and its share of the window.
NO CAVING IN ONE STEPA single concession larger than the mandate's step is refused.
THE LOG IS A CHAINEach entry is hashed with the one before it; a change after the fact names its entry, and nothing more is added.
WALK AWAY WHEN IT SAYSWhen the rounds are spent or the last day has passed, our side makes no more offers.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE GUIDESreferences/HORIZON-TWO.md · THE-MANDATE.md
THE MACHINEnegotiate.py · five commandsmandate — the mandate to edit; offer — checked, then logged; accept — their last offer, only if inside; walk — the talks closed; history — every offer and concession, and the chain. 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.
mandate The mandate to edit
offer Checked, then logged
accept Their last offer, only if inside
walk The talks closed
history Every offer and concession, and the chain
On the record The mandate starts empty, every value for the person to set. Selling a bike inside a window of 800 to 1,200 USD: our 1,200 is made; their 900 carries a never-term and is outside our mandate; our 750 is REFUSED twice over (under the floor, and a 450 USD drop where 25% of the window, 100 USD, is the most) and never made; our 1,100 concedes 100 USD, their 950 concedes 50 USD and is agreed. History shows one refusal and a chain holding over 6 entries; a second set of talks is walked away from, and an offer after that is refused.
What it will never do.
It will never make an offer outside the mandate; never accept a deal missing a must-have; never rewrite the log after the fact.
It waits on agent-to-agent commerce at scale; today it holds one side to its mandate, and the person signs and pays. Terms are matched as written, so a must-have phrased another way by the other side reads as missing. A price is one number in one currency; it never judges whether a price is fair, and it is not legal or financial advice. 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
HORIZON-TWO.md + THE-MANDATE.md — the guides in references/, in the card's own voice
scripts/negotiate.py — the machine: mandate · offer · accept · walk · history, 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 · 5 COMMANDS ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-10-11 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 4F5EDA50A68D2A73DD75A908
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 1171 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
negotiate.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.
mandate
the mandate to edit
offer
checked, then logged
accept
their last offer, only if inside
walk
the talks closed
history
every offer and concession, and the chain
selftest
8 checks that prove the machine; it must print 8/8
mandate · THE MANDATE TO EDIT
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py mandate
{
"how": "Fill in every value; none is filled in for you. side is seller or buyer; currency is a three-letter code. floor and ceiling bound every price our side offers or accepts, in the currency named. must_haves are terms every deal must carry; never are terms no deal may carry (both matched as written, ignoring case). walk_away ends the talks after so many of our offers, or after a date. step_max_percent caps one concession as a share of the window between floor and ceiling.",
"side": "",
"item": "",
"currency": "",
"floor": null,
"ceiling": null,
"must_haves": [],
"never": [],
"walk_away": {
"rounds": null,
"by": null
},
"step_max_percent": null
}
every value starts empty: the person it bargains for sets each one, and the card never suggests a price
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by us --price 1200 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-11
entry 1 · our offer of 1,200 USD · terms: payment before handover
chained · 28d6999bbfdd
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by them --price 900 --terms payment before handover;returns after handover --date 2026-10-11
entry 2 · their offer of 900 USD · terms: payment before handover; returns after handover
inside our mandate: no · carries the never-term "returns after handover"
chained · baf1223777ec
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by us --price 750 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-12
REFUSED · entry 3 · our offer of 750 USD is outside the mandate and was not made:
- below the floor of 800 USD
- one concession of 450 USD is 112.5% of the window, over the 25% allowed
written to bike.jsonl as REFUSED, so the record shows it
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by us --price 1100 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-12
entry 4 · our offer of 1,100 USD · terms: payment before handover
concession 100 USD (25.0% of our window)
chained · 2b309030a6e2
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by them --price 950 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-12
entry 5 · their offer of 950 USD · terms: payment before handover
concession 50 USD
inside our mandate: yes · it may be accepted
chained · 0c83550afb5c
accept · THEIR LAST OFFER, ONLY IF INSIDE
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py accept bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --date 2026-10-13
AGREED · entry 6 · 950 USD · terms: payment before handover
the talks are closed in the log; the person signs and pays, never the card
history · EVERY OFFER AND CONCESSION, AND THE CHAIN
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py history bike.jsonl --mandate mandate.json
bike.jsonl · seller · used road bike, 56 cm frame · window 800–1,200 USD
1 2026-10-11 us OFFER 1,200 USD
2 2026-10-11 them OFFER 900 USD
3 2026-10-12 us REFUSED 750 USD · below the floor of 800 USD; one concession of 450 USD is 112.5% of the window, over the 25% allowed
4 2026-10-12 us OFFER 1,100 USD · concession 100 USD
5 2026-10-12 them OFFER 950 USD · concession 50 USD
6 2026-10-13 us AGREED 950 USD
ours: 2 offers, 1 concession, 100 USD in all
theirs: 2 offers, 1 concession, 50 USD in all
closed: agreed
refused and never made: 1
chain: holds over 6 entries
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer second.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by us --price 1200 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-14
entry 1 · our offer of 1,200 USD · terms: payment before handover
chained · f109ba146ef3
walk · THE TALKS CLOSED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py walk second.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --reason no answer in a week --date 2026-10-21
WALKED AWAY · entry 2 · no answer in a week · the talks are closed in the log
offer · CHECKED, THEN LOGGED
$ python3 scripts/negotiate.py offer second.jsonl --mandate mandate.json --by us --price 1150 --terms payment before handover --date 2026-10-22
the talks are closed: we walked away · nothing more is offered
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?
Mandate · floor, ceiling, terms, walk-away. It asks first for the mandate from the person it bargains for (side, currency, floor, ceiling, must-have and never terms, the walk-away), and each offer as it comes.
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. It waits on agent-to-agent commerce at scale; today it holds one side to its mandate, and the person signs and pays. Terms are matched as written, so a must-have phrased another way by the other side reads as missing. A price is one number in one currency; it never judges whether a price is fair, and it is not legal or financial advice.
What will it never do?
It will never make an offer outside the mandate; never accept a deal missing a must-have; never rewrite the log after the fact.
