Every card, ranked. Pick yours.

The chain that makes an AI skill card, in one box. The interview writes the packet, the audit refuses what may not ship, the cutter makes it a card with the real punch, the packager makes it install in one tap; the seating engine does it at volume.

PROOF · SELFTEST 13/13 · FORGED, AUDITED 12/12, FACED AND PACKED ON ITS OWN PACKET · 2026-09-07

Names every word that vanishes into its background, in every reading mode.

PROOF · SELFTEST 4/4 · A FIXTURE WITH TWO MODES: THE FAINT WORD NAMED IN THE MODE THAT HIDES IT, PASSING IN THE ONE THAT SHOWS IT, THE READABLE WORD NEVER NAMED, GROUND.MD WRITTEN · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 0FAE42E6671EDD760991E720

Counts the files, lines and tests a change touches; prints a floor.

PROOF · SELFTEST 3/3 · THE FILES, LINES AND IMPORTING TESTS COUNTED; NO RATE FILE MEANS NOT ON RECORD; WITH A RATE FILE THE FLOOR IS ARITHMETIC · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH E315D5B9572BBF396D389CB6

Names every accessibility fault on a page with its element.

PROOF · SELFTEST 2/2 · A BAD PAGE NAMED FOR EVERY FAULT; A PAGE THAT DOES IT RIGHT PASSES · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 4B94BD63BAA45EB8AAF69257

Calls every endpoint in the spec and names the drift; NOT CALLED where it did not call.

PROOF · SELFTEST 4/4 · AN AGREEING ENDPOINT AGREES; A BODY MISSING A REQUIRED FIELD IS DRIFT; A STATUS THE SPEC DOES NOT NAME IS DRIFT; A POST IS WRITTEN NOT CALLED · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 22D7EF9B04687D049E353222

The timeline from the log, the first bad change by bisection.

PROOF · SELFTEST 3/3 · THE TIMELINE NAMES THE FIRST ERROR AND THE MINUTE RATE; THE POSTMORTEM SAYS NOT ON RECORD WHERE NOTHING WAS GIVEN; BISECTION FINDS THE FIRST BAD COMMIT BY RUNNING · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 290FFC649973F65A85B6D9F8

Refuses a migration without a proven rollback; prints the counts.

PROOF · SELFTEST 3/3 · A TRUE ROLLBACK PASSES WITH THE COUNTS PRINTED; A ROLLBACK THAT LOSES ROWS REFUSED BY THE COUNT; NO ROLLBACK REFUSED BEFORE ANYTHING RUNS · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH AFD441676C155A14A9A54F0A

Writes a pull request from the diff and the runs, never from memory.

PROOF · SELFTEST 4/4 · PR.MD WRITTEN FROM THE DIFF WITH THE FILES AND THE NEW DEFINITION; NOT RUN WHEN NO TEST COMMAND; THE RUN AND ITS NUMBERS WHEN GIVEN; THE CHECKLIST ABOARD · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH EFD02F47E850F9506ED811DF

Refuses unpinned, unverifiable or invented-looking packages.

PROOF · SELFTEST 4/4 · UNPINNED VERSIONS REFUSED; TWO INVENTED-LOOKING NAMES REFUSED; UNVERIFIABLE PACKAGES NAMED; PINNED AND KNOWN PACKAGES PASS · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 38570D099AB7134F31F0065E

Refuses any fix without a failing run before and a passing run after, on the record.

PROOF · SELFTEST 5/5 · THE FIRST RUN RED; ACCEPT REFUSED WITHOUT A GREEN; THE SECOND RUN GREEN ON A CHANGED TREE; ACCEPT PASSES; GREEN AFTER GREEN REFUSED · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 7B75DFB998F0E8BBC9F8B97C

Sweeps files and pastes for keys, tokens and private data, and refuses.

PROOF · SELFTEST 8/8 · AN ANTHROPIC-SHAPE KEY, AN AWS KEY, A CONNECTION STRING, A .ENV SECRET AND A PRIVATE-KEY BLOCK FOUND BY FILE AND LINE; A CLEAN FILE RAISES NOTHING; LUHN BEFORE A CARD NUMBER COUNTS; THE HIT NEVER SHOWS THE WHOLE SECRET · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 04CD46860DD40C5841C52552

Refuses truncated, placeholder or silently shortened files from an AI.

PROOF · SELFTEST 4/4 · A TRUNCATED FILE REFUSED FOR THE PLACEHOLDER, THE SHRINK AND THE LOST DEFINITIONS; A WHOLE FILE WITH ONE CHANGE PASSES; A FILE ENDING MID-BLOCK REFUSED; A DELIBERATE DELETION PASSES ONLY WITH --allow-delete · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 9D08734E29BFFFAF5D3CB283

The eye-strain reading surface as a card: six colours, the numbers, a reading control, an audit against six laws.

PROOF · SELFTEST 6/6 · A BAD PAGE NAMED FOR SIX FAULTS, THE SAME PAGE APPLIED AND PASSING, THE CONTROL ABOARD, THE SIX COLOURS, CREAM ON WALNUT AT 11.2:1, THE NUMBERS · 2026-09-09 · PUNCH 6AA4986DEF644FB559A5B951

Files in, skills out: any file becomes an audited, faced AI skill on the open standard, one command per folder.

PROOF · SELFTEST 14/14 · FOUR FIXTURES — A MARKDOWN PROCEDURE, A TEXT SOP, CSV RULES, A PYTHON TOOL — EACH CUT, AUDITED SEATED, FACED WITH A REAL PUNCH, CUT FOR EVERY DOOR · 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 5F4F55CD8374F02E9E7AF3AA

THE PUNCH proves a packet is intact; the signet proves who pressed it.

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 8407F632DAC4B7D769D9D8DA

Before anything leaves the house: THE HUSH reads it for what must not ship, THE STRONGBOX for keys, THE UNDERSTUDY for stand-ins, THE BALLAST for pages that n

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH F6E923CCA871B2052185B4D6

Every budget line must be named in the narrative; the narrative’s stated total must equal the budget’s total; every category must be present.

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH A0C86296151C7095DB334638

A contract’s structure checked by machine: each defined term defined exactly once, every capitalised term in the body backed by a definition, every "Sec

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 905FA75382B5D70C315D70D4

A journal goes in; the per-account totals and the trial balance come out, every entry that does not balance is named by its id, and the whole is either in bal

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 6D00C010B748C73E6994B5CA

Every quantity carries its dimensions; an equation whose sides disagree is wrong before any number is checked.

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 173BA21D5E7285C7DC40FE7D

Tasks with durations and dependencies go in; earliest and latest start and finish, the float of every task and the critical path come out.

PROOF · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · WITNESSED. · CUT 2026-09-08 · PUNCH 35210A07B2D960EAB57108A9

The shipping gate for web builds: the sweep, the gate, the device armada — nothing faked.

PROOF · THE PACKET’S OWN RECORD · SEATED BY THE GREAT SEATING AS GS-00002 · NOT YET SEEN RUNNING ON A BUYER’S ACCOUNT

An expo booth kit — wall, tents, screen loops — cut from one brief at print size and measured.

PROOF · SELFTEST 8/8 · SIX FILES CUT AND MEASURED AT 3600×5400, 750×1050, 1080×1920 · 150 DPI ON THE WALL · 2026-09-08

A first-party tally that names no one: the beacon, the contract, a reference server.

PROOF · SELFTEST 7/7 · A SERVER STARTED, BEACONS COUNTED, A LONG LABEL CUT, THE REPORT REFUSED WITHOUT THE SECRET, NOTHING IDENTIFYING STORED · 2026-09-08

The way of working that spends a chat’s image budget on purpose: crate in, count, look once.

PROOF · SELFTEST 9 OF 9 · 40 LOOSE SLOTS OPENED FOR 0 · 2 SHEETS · 2 PAGES · WORDS FOR NONE · 2026-09-07