Walk the floor.

THE CARD FORGE · the maker's card · the chain that makes an AI skill card

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name the card
2. Ask what it is and what it must agree with
3. forge new → the packet
4. forge audit → SEATED or fix the answers
5. forge face → forge pack → forge universal → prove it by opening the zip; write the ledger line

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE RANKER CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to forge a card that imitates a house card's name, seat or inner method

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 14/14 · THE CHAIN RUN ON ITS OWN PACKET (forged, audited SEATED 12/12, faced, pac

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 4A1C54E8DBE007B8D23E30BA

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

THE SKILL RANKER · the judgment card for skills

WAKES WHEN The scale the studio scores every skill on — its own included — as an instrument: paste any SKILL.md and twenty deterministic sub-checks…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• THE-DOMR-RANKER-E1.html
• domr-skill-scale-v1.json
• CARD.md + SKILL.md
• LICENSE + START-HERE

PROOF THE SCALE THAT SCORED THIS VERY SHELF — JSON VALID · SCRIPT PARSES · 14PX GATE HELD

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE GREAT SEATING · the engine that cuts cards

WAKES WHEN One record in, one card out: Claudr writes CARD.md, SKILL.md, the tin, the ledger and the licence from the record and only the record;…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• seating.py
• SCHEMA.md +…
• a demo seating
• CARD.md + SKILL.md ·…

PROOF SELFTEST 11/11 · TWO RUNS, IDENTICAL SHELF · 47 CARDS SEATED FROM THE RECORD

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE STAMP · the space-time stamp

WAKES WHEN A machine-readable coordinate written into every artifact a card cuts — time, place, depth, reach, direction, scale, witness, light —…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• rumtid.py
• RUMTID.json
• CARD.md + SKILL.md
• LICENSE + START-HERE

PROOF STAMPED ONTO 47 SEATED CARDS · SELFTEST NAMES THE VOID CORRECTLY

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

STORM LEGAL · the protection card

WAKES WHEN How a studio protects what it builds without lying about it: the docket anatomy — one line, built versus declared, the claim spine, prior…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• sweep.py
• DOCKET-TEMPLATE.md
• THE-STORM-LEGAL-LAW.md
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF THE SWEEP RUN ON THIS HOUSE TODAY · SEVEN DOCKETS DRAFTED ON THE ANATOMY

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE DELIVERY · the download card

WAKES WHEN A store's own digital-download app as one edge worker: verify the paid-order webhook, map each line item to a package, mint a signed link…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• worker.js
• wrangler.toml + README.md
• licence-pool.py +…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF PARSES UNDER NODE 22 · DEPLOY SHEET WRITTEN · NOT YET RUN AGAINST A LIVE STORE

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE SHELF CARD · the no-script shop

WAKES WHEN A ranked shop that sorts, filters and sells with no script: shelf.py turns a JSON list of cards into a page where every row carries its…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• shelf.py
• cards.example.json +…
• THE-SHELF-LAW.md
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF GENERATED FROM THE EXAMPLE · THE STUDIO'S SHELF: 40 ROWS, SORT AND FILTERS PROVEN BY EXECUTION

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE FLEXIBLE HTML CARD · the one-file site

WAKES WHEN A whole site in one file that bends to any screen with no script: onefile.py fuses a folder of pages into a single HTML file where every…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• onefile.py
• flexgate.py
• THE-ONE-FILE-LAW.md

PROOF A THREE-PAGE SITE FUSED · SEVEN WIDTHS PASSED · VIEWS SWITCHED BY THE…

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE OUTSIDE VIEW · the stranger's eye

WAKES WHEN What a stranger's AI sees in your house that you cannot from inside: outside.py reads a site and its skill boxes and prints five lenses…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• outside.py
• THE-OUTSIDE-LAW.md
• outside-report-lundr-2026-…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF RUN ON THIS HOUSE TODAY — 66 PAGES, 47 BOXES, FIVE LENSES, EVERY LINE WITH ITS COUNT

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE GROVE CARD · the ancestry seat

WAKES WHEN A heritage research method for tracing your family line honestly — what the paper says, what the family says, and where they disagree.

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• CARD.md
• tree.py
• HEIRLOOM-WALKTHROUGH.md
• LIMIT.md printed at the…

PROOF TREE.PY RUN ON ITS SAMPLE · TWO OF FOUR DOCUMENTED WITH A CITED SOURCE · HEARD KEPT APART · NO SOURCE YET…

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE FOUNDRY CARD · the type designer's engine

WAKES WHEN A parametric monoline type engine for people who draw type for a living.

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• foundry.py
• skeleton-latin-basic.json
• THE-FOUNDRY-LAW.md
• Three weights cut today…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF THREE WEIGHTS CUT FROM ONE SKELETON · 129 GLYPHS RASTERISED · 0 EMPTY · KERN FEATURE PRESENT

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE GRADE CARD · the runner grade

WAKES WHEN The studio's photo pipeline as a card: LUND RUNNER GRADE v1 — one fixed recipe of exposure, colour and grain — and THE FEED STANDARD, which…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• SKILL.md
• CARD.md · the ledger ·…
• LUND-GRADE-CARD.skill

PROOF NINE RUNNER PHOTOS GRADED AND DELIVERED TO THE STANDARD TODAY

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE TWIN CARD · the theme, rendered without the store

WAKES WHEN Render a Shopify theme's templates to plain HTML with no store: twin.py evaluates the Liquid to its absent state — else branches taken,…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• twin.py
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF 71 VIEWS OF THIS HOUSE TWINNED IN ONE RUN

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE SPLIT CARD · no file over the line

WAKES WHEN Shopify refuses any Liquid file over 256 KB and the store falls to a 404 with no warning.

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• split.py
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF THE DECK CUT FROM 316 KB TO 198 IN ONE RUN · NO FILE LEFT OVER THE LINE

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE IMPORT CARD · every product, every column

WAKES WHEN A Shopify product CSV from a list of cards, with every column the importer wants: priced rows active, unpriced rows as drafts at zero,…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• importcsv.py
• cards.example.json +…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF 14 PRODUCTS CUT · 50 HANDLES READ FROM THIS HOUSE · ONE MISSING HANDLE CAUGHT AND FIXED

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE NIGHT CARD · a switch for the dark

WAKES WHEN A stylesheet that only follows the device learns a switch: night.py rewrites every dark-scheme rule to answer two attributes — one that…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• night.py
• sample.css →…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF 24 DARK RULES REWRITTEN ON THIS HOUSE'S OWN STYLESHEET · THE SWITCH PROVEN TO FLIP AND HOLD ACROSS A RELOAD

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE SEAL CARD · a score becomes a seal

WAKES WHEN seal.py turns a score into the seal — the eight-sided ring, the numeral, the band the score earns, the mark you declare — as SVG always and…

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• seal.py
• cards.example.json +…
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF 14 SEALS CUT AND RASTERISED TO PNG · THE SHEET WRITTEN

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE PROOF GATE · proven by rendering

WAKES WHEN A page is proven by rendering it, not by reading it.

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• proofgate.py
• CARD.md + SKILL.md and…

PROOF RUN ON THIS HOUSE IN BOTH SCHEMES · PASS · TWO FALSE ALARMS CORRECTED IN THE SAME RUN

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

FUNANCE · the finance card

WAKES WHEN The financial command center for anyone who keeps books — one business or ten.

THE LOOP

1. Read the source. Never generate from memory when the artifact exists
2. Build the smallest complete thing — the whole artifact, not a sample of it
3. Run it. Open the file, parse the output, count the rows, check the limits
4. Report what you checked, in one or two lines, with the numbers
5. Name what you did not do and why

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat; hand it to its sibling
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

• The Free Ledger
• The 30-Day Pass
• The Year
• CARD.md + SKILL.md

PROOF FIRST ORDER ON RECORD AUGUST 13, 2026 · IDEMPOTENT IMPORT PROVEN BY RUNNING IT · THE STUDIO KEEPS ITS OWN…

THE PUNCH · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · card.json →

THE PADDING CARD · the spacing law

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name
2. Ask (artifact, and what it must agree with)
3. Build the deliverable
4. Prove it by running it
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE RANKER CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods

IN THE BOX

PROOF RUN ON THE FUSED HOUSE: 16 OFF-LADDER FACES AND 673 SUB-14 LABELS FOUND, THEN FIXED BY THE

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 188319E641B23692319A8F78

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

THE GROUND CARD · every page, every ground: the words that vanish, named

WAKES WHEN a site has more than one reading mode

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at a page, a folder of pages, or a URL
2. Run ground.py check with your modes and the attribute your switch sets
3. Read GROUND.md: every faint word by page, mode and element
4. Fix the class at the root, not the page; run again until nothing is named
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE ACCESSIBILITY CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to pass a page it did not open

IN THE BOX

• scripts/ground.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 4/4 · A FIXTURE WITH TWO MODES: THE FAINT WORD NAMED IN THE MODE THAT HIDES IT, P

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 0FAE42E6671EDD760991E720

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

THE CODE ESTIMATE CARD · scope from the repo, not the meeting

WAKES WHEN a change needs an hours floor

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the repo, the log, the spec or the page
2. Run the machine: estimate.py
3. Read the result: PASS or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE ESTIMATE SEAT
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to print hours without a rate file

IN THE BOX

• scripts/estimate.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 3/3 · THE FILES, LINES AND IMPORTING TESTS COUNTED; NO RATE FILE MEANS NOT ON REC

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · E315D5B9572BBF396D389CB6

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

THE ACCESSIBILITY CARD · contrast, labels, focus and keyboard reach, measured on the page

WAKES WHEN a page must be usable by everyone, and a client asked for WCAG

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the repo, the log, the spec or the page
2. Run the machine: a11y.py
3. Read the result: PASS or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE STILLPOINT CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to pass a page it did not read

IN THE BOX

• scripts/a11y.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 2/2 · A BAD PAGE NAMED FOR EVERY FAULT; A PAGE THAT DOES IT RIGHT PASSES · 2026-0

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 4B94BD63BAA45EB8AAF69257

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

THE API CARD · every endpoint called, every response checked against the spec

WAKES WHEN an API and its spec must be shown to agree

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the repo, the log, the spec or the page
2. Run the machine: apicheck.py
3. Read the result: PASS or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE PR CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to document an endpoint it did not call

IN THE BOX

• scripts/apicheck.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 4/4 · AN AGREEING ENDPOINT AGREES; A BODY MISSING A REQUIRED FIELD IS DRIFT; A ST

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 22D7EF9B04687D049E353222

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

THE INCIDENT CARD · the timeline from the logs, the first bad change by bisection

WAKES WHEN something broke and the logs are the record

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the repo, the log, the spec or the page
2. Run the machine: incident.py
3. Read the result: PASS or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE TEST-FIRST CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to write a cause the record does not show

IN THE BOX

• scripts/incident.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 3/3 · THE TIMELINE NAMES THE FIRST ERROR AND THE MINUTE RATE; THE POSTMORTEM SAYS

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 290FFC649973F65A85B6D9F8

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

THE MIGRATION CARD · the rollback written first, the counts before and after

WAKES WHEN a migration is about to run

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the repo, the log, the spec or the page
2. Run the machine: migration.py
3. Read the result: PASS or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE TEST-FIRST CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse a migration that has no rollback

IN THE BOX

• scripts/migration.py
• CARD.md
• LICENSE-NOTE.md
• MY-LEDGER.md
• SKILL.md
• TIN.md

PROOF SELFTEST 3/3 · A TRUE ROLLBACK PASSES WITH THE COUNTS PRINTED; A ROLLBACK THAT LOSES ROWS

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · AFD441676C155A14A9A54F0A

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

THE PR CARD · a pull request written from the diff, never from memory

WAKES WHEN a branch is ready for review

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the files or the branch
2. Run the machine: pr.py
3. Read the result: PASS, or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE TEST-FIRST CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to write that a test passed without running it

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 4/4 · PR.MD WRITTEN FROM THE DIFF WITH THE FILES AND THE NEW DEFINITION; NOT RUN

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · EFD02F47E850F9506ED811DF

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

THE DEPENDENCY CARD · every package real, pinned and named

WAKES WHEN a dependency is about to be added

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the files or the branch
2. Run the machine: deps.py
3. Read the result: PASS, or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE SECRETS CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to accept a package the card cannot verify exists

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 4/4 · UNPINNED VERSIONS REFUSED; TWO INVENTED-LOOKING NAMES REFUSED; UNVERIFIABLE

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 38570D099AB7134F31F0065E

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

THE TEST-FIRST CARD · red, then green, both printed

WAKES WHEN a bug is about to be fixed

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the files or the branch
2. Run the machine: testfirst.py
3. Read the result: PASS, or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE PR CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to accept a fix without RED then GREEN on a changed tree

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 5/5 · THE FIRST RUN RED; ACCEPT REFUSED WITHOUT A GREEN; THE SECOND RUN GREEN ON

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 7B75DFB998F0E8BBC9F8B97C

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

THE SECRETS CARD · nothing leaves that carries a key

WAKES WHEN code or text is about to leave your machine

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the files or the branch
2. Run the machine: secrets.py
3. Read the result: PASS, or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE PR CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to pass a file or a paste that carries a secret-shaped string

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 8/8 · AN ANTHROPIC-SHAPE KEY, AN AWS KEY, A CONNECTION STRING, A .ENV SECRET AND

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 04CD46860DD40C5841C52552

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

THE WHOLE-FILE CARD · no "rest of the code here", ever

WAKES WHEN an AI hands back a file

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at the files or the branch
2. Run the machine: wholefile.py
3. Read the result: PASS, or every fault by name
4. Fix what was named; run again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE PR CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse a file that carries a placeholder for code

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 4/4 · A TRUNCATED FILE REFUSED FOR THE PLACEHOLDER, THE SHRINK AND THE LOST DEFIN

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 9D08734E29BFFFAF5D3CB283

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

THE STILLPOINT CARD · the reading surface for the human iris

WAKES WHEN a page must be easy on the eyes for hours

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at a page or a stack
2. stillpoint.py apply → the sheet and the control on the page
3. stillpoint.py audit → PASS or the faults, named
4. Fix what the audit names; audit again until PASS
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE PADDING CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to call a page Stillpoint that fails one of the six laws

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 6/6 · A BAD PAGE NAMED FOR SIX FAULTS, THE SAME PAGE APPLIED AND PASSING, THE CON

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 6AA4986DEF644FB559A5B951

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

THE MILL · files in, skills out

WAKES WHEN a file or a folder must become AI skills

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; point it at a file or a folder
2. mill.py cut → answers read from the file, fitted to the law
3. forge new → audit → face → universal, for every skill
4. Open MILL.md: SEATED or FIX, punch, doors, per skill
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE CARD FORGE
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to sharpen a vague file into a confident skill — the mill says the file is vague

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 14/14 · FOUR FIXTURES — MARKDOWN PROCEDURE, TEXT SOP, CSV RULES, PYTHON TOOL — EA

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 5F4F55CD8374F02E9E7AF3AA

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

THE SIGNET CARD · who cut this card

WAKES WHEN a maker must seal a packet so anyone can verify who pressed it, with hashes alone

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask whose signet, and whether it is minted yet — if not, the maker mints it on their own machine
2. Run `signet.py press <packet> --key signet.key` as the last step before the zip is cut
3. Publish signet.pub (the root) where buyers can find it; never the key
4. A buyer runs `signet.py verify <packet.zip> --pub signet.pub`
5. When the seals run out, mint again and publish the new root beside the old

NEVER

• Refuse to mint a maker's real signet inside a chat or on a shared machine; the demonstration signet is a demonstration — THE PUNCH CARD proves the packet, this card proves the hand
• Refuse to reuse a seal, whatever the reason given
• Refuse to say a sealed card is a good card; a seal proves authorship, nothing more
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 8407F632DAC4B7D769D9D8DA

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

THE SHIPWRIGHT CARD · the pre-ship chain, one command, one verdict

WAKES WHEN a folder is about to ship and every gate must run at once

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask which folder ships, and for the seal list and tokens
2. Run `shipwright.py ship <dir> --seals SEALS.txt --share -o SHIPWRIGHT.md`
3. Read the verdict, then the machine that faulted
4. Fix at the source; run again until SHIPSHAPE
5. Label the understudy's list in the delivery

NEVER

• Refuse to fix what it finds; each machine names the line, the builder fixes it — THE FINALS CARD runs beside it for a theme pair
• Refuse to deploy or upload anything
• Refuse to skip a machine to make a deadline
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · F6E923CCA871B2052185B4D6

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

THE PROPOSAL CARD · the budget and the narrative agree

WAKES WHEN a proposal with a budget is about to be submitted

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask for the budget sheet and the narrative
2. Run `proposal.py check budget.csv narrative.md -o PROPOSAL.md`
3. Fix every unnamed line in the narrative, or cut it from the budget
4. Run again until AGREES
5. Submit with PROPOSAL.md in the file

NEVER

• Refuse to write or reword the narrative — THE SHALL CARD matrixes the call; this card reconciles the answer
• Refuse to interpret the reader's eligibility or rules
• Refuse to pass an application whose totals disagree
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · A0C86296151C7095DB334638

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

THE CLAUSE CARD · every term defined once, every reference resolving

WAKES WHEN a contract or policy draft is about to go to counsel or to a signature

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask for the draft as text or markdown
2. Run `clause.py check contract.md -o CLAUSE.md`
3. Fix each fault in the draft; read each note
4. Run again until WELL-FORMED
5. Send the draft and CLAUSE.md to counsel together

NEVER

• Refuse legal advice of any kind; a well-formed contract is not a good one — counsel decides, THE DOCKET CARD carries the matter
• Refuse to draft or reword a clause
• Refuse to pass a dangling section reference because "everyone knows what it means"
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 905FA75382B5D70C315D70D4

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

THE TRIAL BALANCE CARD · debits equal credits, or they do not

WAKES WHEN a journal must be proven balanced before closing

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask for the journal: entry, date, account, debit, credit
2. Run `trial_balance.py run journal.csv -o TB.md`
3. Read the unbalanced entries by id; fix them at the source
4. Run again until IN BALANCE
5. Hand TB.md to the accountant with the journal

NEVER

• Refuse tax, legal or financial advice; hand off to a professional — FUNANCE keeps the books, this card proves them
• Refuse to move an entry to make the books balance
• Refuse to round; the cent is the unit
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 6D00C010B748C73E6994B5CA

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

THE UNITS CARD · dimensional analysis, by machine

WAKES WHEN an equation or spec mixes units and a wrong dimension would pass

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask for the expression or the equation
2. Run `units.py reduce "<expr>"` to see what a quantity is
3. Run `units.py check "<lhs>" = "<rhs>"` for an equation
4. A DISAGREE is a wrong equation; fix it before any arithmetic
5. An AGREE means the dimensions hold — the values are still the engineer's

NEVER

• Refuse to convert a value between unit systems; that is arithmetic with factors the card does not carry — THE TOLERANCE CARD is its sibling for the numbers
• Refuse to certify anything; a stamp is a licensed engineer's
• Refuse to invent a unit that is not in its table; say unknown
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 173BA21D5E7285C7DC40FE7D

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

THE CRITICAL PATH CARD · the path, and the float around it

WAKES WHEN tasks with durations and dependencies must become a schedule

THE LOOP

1. Name the card; ask for the task sheet: id, name, duration, deps
2. Run `critical_path.py run tasks.csv -o PATH.md`
3. Read the finish and the path; every task on it is the schedule
4. Read the floats; a task with float can move without moving the finish
5. Hand PATH.md to whoever owns the calendar

NEVER

• Refuse to estimate a duration; the numbers are the planner's — THE INTENT CARD checks the plan's who and when
• Refuse a sheet with a cycle in it; name the cycle and stop
• Refuse to call a task critical because it feels important; only zero float is critical
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 35210A07B2D960EAB57108A9

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

THE ARMADA CARD · the shipping gate

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name
2. Ask (what ships, and the selector file)
3. Bugrundr
4. THE GATE
5. THE ARMADA in chunks

NEVER

• Refuse to declare a build clean without running it
• Refuse to skip a screen because it is slow
• Refuse to raise a budget to pass a build
• Refuse to claim Safari is proven — Safari's engine is not aboard; say so

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · D47FBC8A412FC9B752BE477F

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

THE BOOTH CARD · the expo booth kit, cut from one brief

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name the card
2. Ask for the brief: name, line, colours, the words, the URL, the code image if any
3. booth.py cut → the kit
4. Open every file and measure it; write KIT.md
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE RANKER CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to draw a QR from memory or to print a size the brief did not name

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 8/8 · SIX FILES CUT AND MEASURED AT 3600×5400, 750×1050, 1080×1920 · 150 DPI ON T

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 6FA8061B61A60065DBE7A741

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

THE TALLY CARD · the count that names no one

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name the card
2. Ask what is to be counted and where the worker will live
3. Wire the beacon into the theme and the contract into the worker
4. Run the reference server and the selftest against it
5. Write the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

• Refuse work outside this card's seat and hand it to its sibling: THE RANKER CARD
• Refuse to invent proof, prices, quotes or numbers
• Refuse anything that builds against the studio's sealed methods
• Refuse to add a cookie, a fingerprint, an id or a third-party script to the tally, under any name

IN THE BOX

PROOF SELFTEST 7/7 · A SERVER STARTED, BEACONS COUNTED, A LONG LABEL CUT, THE REPORT REFUSED WIT

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 22EEC997B104521D3AD09BC8

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

THE HOLD CARD · stow the cargo below deck

WAKES WHEN

THE LOOP

1. Name
2. Ask (the cargo, and what the work must agree with)
3. Open the crate and print the ledger
4. Look once: sheet · text · pages
5. Work from disk, deliver files

NEVER

• Refuse to grade or edit the frames — hand them to THE BRIGHT CARD, THE ARRIVAL CARD, THE CATALOG CARD, THE LONG ARM CARD or THE LITR CARD; the hold delivers them the files below deck
• Refuse to recover files from old chats — THE RAVENS CARD
• Refuse to build or edit the PDF itself — LUMEP
• Refuse to promise the cap moved: nothing raises it; the hold only chooses where the slots go

IN THE BOX

PROOF

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 7F859D920CFC3FA26159451E

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