Does it need the Shopify connection?

No. Without it the machine works from the store's product list pasted in and cuts files the store imports. With it on, the card creates the drafts and reads the catalog itself, and says what it did.

Will it publish for me?

It makes drafts freely and publishes a product only when you name it; a batch is listed first. That is the law on the face.

Where do prices come from?

From you, on the ladder or off it. The card never prints a price it was not given and the store's price is the only true one.

Can it attach the files?

No — that door is the app's and yours. It checks the app's list against the record by name and bytes, and the room's punch check proves a downloaded copy.

How the house's own ticket finds a product: the handle first, then a handle or title that carries exactly its words. The card runs the same reading on the store's list so the ticket is never surprised.

No. It is a card at your elbow — a person with a machine and, when you allow it, a connection. It stores nothing, runs no server and holds no key of its own.

THE CREATIVE DOMAINS · Nº 422 · EDITION 1 · METHOD SEAT

LUND CARDS · THE CREATIVE DOMAINSNº 422 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE STAGE CARD · the production seat

WAKES WHEN putting on a play, a musical or a live show; a production schedule back from opening night; blocking, a prompt book, cue sheets; tech week, a cue-to-cue, rehearsal reports; a front-of-house or show-stop plan

THE LOOP

Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the script, the venue, the licence, the opening date)
Break down the script
Build the schedule back from opening
Block it into the prompt book
Place and number the cues, then plan tech
Report, then the ledger line: built · failed · next

NEVER

a rigging load or a pyro plan
a show staged without its licence
a blocked exit

THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · a method seat, words only, no machine aboard and no witnessed run yet

IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · A0D58831F314F55C76BFFFDC

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

THE STAGE CARD

the production seat

A SHOW TAKEN FROM SCRIPT TO CURTAIN — SCHEDULE, BLOCKING, CUES AND THE PROMPT BOOK — RUN SAFELY AND ON TIME

EPICMANIFESTIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN CHATGPT

WITNESSED — the studio saw this card run and produce what its tin promises, and wrote the date down. What the marks mean →

THE SPEC SHEET · READ BEFORE YOU BUY · THE STANDARD EVERY CARD MEETS →

SEAL: 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST
EDITION: E1
MACHINE: None — words only: CARD.md, SKILL.md, the references. Nothing to install, nothing runs.
RUNS: Wherever an AI reads a text file. Nothing phones home.
HOSTS: Claude · Claude Code · ChatGPT · Gemini · any AI that reads a file (HOSTS.md names each door)
LICENCE: One person, any number of their own AIs and computers · editions replace files · nothing renews · freeze, not loss
PUNCH: A0D58831F314F55C76BFFFDC · sha-256 of SKILL.md · check any file against it →

CITE THIS CARDTHE STAGE CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=stage-card. Punch A0D58831F314F55C76BFFFDC. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

What it is.

THE STAGE CARD — the production seat: a show taken from script to curtain — schedule, blocking, cues and the prompt book — run safely and on time.

A stage manager's and director's seat for a Claude session: production schedules back from opening, blocking in a prompt book, numbered cue sheets, tech-week plans, breakdowns, reports and a front-of-house safety plan — the script decides, safety outranks the effect.

Its laws, written into the card.

The script decides; every cue and every move traces to a line or a moment.
The prompt book is the show's memory — if it is not in the book, it did not happen.
Safety outranks the effect: rigging, flying, pyrotechnics, haze and weapons-as-props belong to licensed specialists and the venue's rules, and the card says so first.
Every cue is numbered, placed and called the same way every night.
Performing rights are cleared before a ticket is sold; the licence is the holder's to obtain.
Reports go out the same night, plainly, to every department.
Refuse per §4 — no rigging, flying, pyrotechnic or firearm work a licence exists to sign, no script staged without its performing licence, no blocked exit. Every cue traces to a line and is called the same way every night.

How it works, once your AI has it.

Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the script, the venue, the licence, the opening date)
Break down the script
Build the schedule back from opening
Block it into the prompt book
Place and number the cues, then plan tech
Report, then the ledger line: built · failed · next

When it says no.

Rigging loads, flying systems, pyrotechnic or firearm handling, or anything a licence exists to sign — the specialist and the venue are named instead.
Reproducing a script or score under copyright, or staging one without its performing licence.
Crowding a venue past its stated capacity or blocking an exit for an effect.
The writing is THE WRITING CARD's. The movement is THE CHOREOGRAPHY CARD's. The film of the show is THE FILM CARD's. The poster is THE GRAPHIC DESIGN CARD's.

What’s in the buy.

CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md — the method, written down
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door

PROOF · A METHOD SEAT · AUDIT 12/12 · NO MACHINE ABOARD, NONE CLAIMED · EDITION 1 · PUNCH A0D58831F314F55C76BFFFDC

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 422 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT

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 legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →

ONE PAYMENT · NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF

OFFLINE · ONE LICENCE · PUNCH-CHECKABLE · THE STANDARD

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.

ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.

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