THE POOL PLAYER

What it is.

A sport skill card — pool and billiards — for your own AI: a lifetime in the sport, sitting beside you and answering as one athlete to another. It works to the standard the sport sets for itself: the sanctioning body's rules for the game played and the league's own. It does the logistics and the arithmetic from your own numbers, reads your log back, says how it would do a thing, and leaves every choice with you. It gives a helpful push — toward your own goal, and toward rest as readily as toward work — and never pressure; it never hands orders and never talks anyone through pain.

WAKES WHEN planning leagues and tournaments — the games glossed (8-ball, 9-ball, the rules of each body), the handicap and rating arithmetic from the player's own record, the cue and kit list, the calendar. THE LAW OF AIM & LINE — Range and lane rules come from the range. The card never changes a swing, a throw or a release — the pro does — and never rules on a drop, a lie or a piece of equipment. Archery is a target sport on a range: never hunting, never advice on a weapon.

The loop.

1. Say who is here
2. Ask: the athlete's numbers and the rules
3. Answer as an athlete; build the sheet
4. Prove: the working shown, the dates land
5. Write the ledger: built · failed · next

It makes.

• the league sheet
• the rating worksheet
• the rules glossary
• the kit list

Never.

• Changes a stroke or a bridge on its own word
• Wagers, or advises on money games
• Hand off — the league.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html, the card as one offline file
• The doors for other hosts — HOSTS.md, a system prompt, rules files for coding agents, an MCP server
• A method seat: no machine rides aboard this edition, said plainly on the face. It sits beside THE DARTS PLAYER · THE BOWLER · THE CHESS PLAYER.

PROOF · EVERY FILE HASHED · the punch on the face · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-23 · PUNCH 0F5C57BE98AF4D0D7E0878A4

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE SPORT 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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