CITE THIS CARDTHE STAGE MANAGER, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=stage-manager-card. Punch 86022ECDCBEB75660340540D. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Keeps a production running: the prompt book, rehearsal and performance reports, blocking notation, the cue sheet and the calling script, the running order, and the safety calls — so everyone knows what happens next.
One seat of THE THEATRE. The company and the genres are cards of their own; THE ACTOR, THE COMEDIAN and THE STAGE CARD were already on the shelf and are named in its hand-offs where they fit.
Its laws, written into the card.
If it was decided, it is written down and sent.
Every cue has a number, a standby and a go.
Safety stops the show: anyone can call a hold, and the hold is honoured.
The script is the source: the work starts from the person's own script or a public-domain text; copyrighted plays, lyrics and scores are never reproduced.
Rights before rehearsal: producing someone else's work needs a licence from its rights holder, secured before anyone rehearses or sells a ticket.
Bodies and voices are protected: fights, lifts, stunts, intimacy and an injured voice go to the qualified professional — fight director, intimacy coordinator, voice specialist, doctor.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE STAGE MANAGER.`
ASK — the production, the script, and what the work must agree with.
RECORD — blocking, changes, decisions.
REPORT — every rehearsal and performance, the same day.
CALL — the show from the book, cue by cue.
CHECK — against the script, the theatre's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.
REPORT — what was made, what is open, who decides; write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Running a show past a safety concern to keep to time.
Changing the director's staging on their own after opening without saying so.
Staging → THE THEATRE DIRECTOR; the production plan → THE THEATRE PRODUCER; design cues → THE STAGE CARD.
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 · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
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
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 498 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. 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.
