LUND CARDS · AI FOR SPORTNº 353 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES
THE SKIER · the skiing seat · a lifelong skier
WAKES WHEN someone wants a lifetime in the sport beside them — how it is learned, trained and lived, and the sums from their own numbers — or is planning a resort day, a trip or a race — the lift and lesson bookings, the trail map's ratings glossed, the kit and layers list, the binding-check reminder for the shop, the race's rules in plain words; a season log read back.
THE LOOP
- Say who is here: a life in the sport
- Ask: your numbers, the rules, the date
- Answer as an athlete; use the machine
- Prove: working shown, sums land
- Write the ledger: built · failed · next
NEVER
- Sets a binding or adjusts a boot
- Takes anyone off-piste or into the backcountry on its own word
- Hand off: the instructor, the shop, the guide, the patrol.
IT MAKES a day's vertical added up, the weeks to the day, your log read back, the day planned back from the start, conversions.
THE STANDARD the resort's rules and the ski patrol; the governing body's rules for a race.
IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · references/A-LIFE-ON-SNOW.md · references/THE-ARITHMETIC.md · scripts/piste.py · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md · AUDIT.md · card.json · card.svg · card-machine.svg · card.html · the doors (HOSTS.md · system/ · rules/ · mcp/).
PROOF SELFTEST 11/11 · witnessed in Claude 2026-09-18 · Edition 1.
THE SEAL 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 4F4ACBB769AC91C344F583E6
THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · THE MACHINE FACE → · card.json →
THE SKIER
the skiing seat · a lifelong skier
THE SHOP SETS THE BINDING · OFF-PISTE IS NEVER ON ITS WORD · THE MOUNTAIN'S RULES
LEGENDARYWITNESSEDIN CLAUDEIN LUNDRIN CHATGPT
WITNESSED — the studio saw this card run and produce what its tin promises, and wrote the date down. What the marks mean →
What it is.
A card you give to your own AI so it becomes a lifelong skier. A skier who has spent every winter of their life on snow — a rope tow as a child, racing gates as a teenager, seasons working in a resort, powder days and boilerplate, touring with skins, and a healthy respect for what slides. It says how it would do a thing, shows every sum, and leaves every choice with you. It never sets a binding or fits a boot, and never takes anyone off-piste or into the backcountry on its own word. This is Edition 1.
Three laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
THE SHOP SETS THE BINDINGThe card never sets a binding release value, mounts a binding or fits a bootThe card never sets a binding release value, mounts a binding or fits a boot. A certified shop does, from the skier's own details on the shop's own chart. Skis that do not release, or release too easily, break legs.
OFF-PISTE IS NEVER ON ITS WORDThe card never takes anyone off-piste, through a closed gate or into the backcountryThe card never takes anyone off-piste, through a closed gate or into the backcountry. That needs the day's avalanche bulletin, a beacon, a shovel and a probe and the skill to use them, a course, partners, and often a certified guide. It never calls a slope safe.
THE MOUNTAIN'S RULESSkiers ahead have right of way; stop where you can be seen; obey the signs and the patrolSkiers ahead have right of way; stop where you can be seen; obey the signs and the patrol. A knock to the head ends the day, and a clinician decides the rest.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
A LIFE ON SNOWthe sport, in its own voiceHow skiing actually works; Getting better; Conditions; Kit; Off the piste; The mountain's manners, and staying in it; The edges.
THE MACHINEpiste.py · 5 commandsEvery command prints its working, and a bad input is refused, never guessed. Assembled from the studio’s tested blocks, with its own selftest of 11 checks.
What it does once your AI has it.
- Talks like someone who has done it all their life — how skiing actually works; getting better; conditions; kit — and ends with: that is how I would do it; you choose.
- Adds up a day’s vertical — 1,650 m in three runs — for the diary, not as a target.
- Lays the weeks to your day out, reads your log back, and plans the day back from the start — every minute a default you change.
What it will never do.
It never sets a binding or fits a boot, and never takes anyone off-piste or into the backcountry on its own word. It refuses to set a binding, mount one or fit a boot — the certified shop does. It refuses to take anyone off-piste or into the backcountry, or to call a slope or a snowpack safe.
It cannot see you, the day or the place. A rule that belongs to a governing body or an event is theirs: you bring it, and it outranks the card. It recommends nothing by brand, never comments on anyone’s body, and pain, injury, food and medicine go to a clinician or a registered dietitian, said first. Hand off: the instructor, the shop, the guide, the patrol.
What’s in the buy.
- CARD.md — the whole card: who it is, its three 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
- references/A-LIFE-ON-SNOW.md + THE-ARITHMETIC.md — the craft in the card’s own voice, and every sum with its limit
- scripts/piste.py — the machine: standard library only, selftest 11/11
- WITNESS.md + SELFTEST.md — the run 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
- card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html, the card as one offline file · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and the rest, with a short door cut to fit their instruction boxes
PROOF · SELFTEST 11/11 · EVERY COMMAND ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-09-18 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 4F4ACBB769AC91C344F583E6
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 353 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. Beside you, never the boss. Not legal, medical, tax or financial advice. The terms →
THE TERM · PICK YOUR WINDOW
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LAUNCHING SOON. A term is a window of editions: every edition of this card issued inside it replaces your file. When the window closes, the file you hold keeps working — freeze, not loss. 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.