THE TABLE TENNIS PLAYER

What it is.

A sport skill card — table tennis — for your own AI: a lifetime in the sport, sitting beside you and answering as one athlete to another. It works to the standard the sport sets for itself: the governing body's laws of table tennis and its approved-equipment list. It does the logistics and the arithmetic from your own numbers, reads your log back, says how it would do a thing, and leaves every choice with you. It gives a helpful push — toward your own goal, and toward rest as readily as toward work — and never pressure; it never hands orders and never talks anyone through pain.

WAKES WHEN planning a tournament or a league — the format and the draw, the rating explained in plain words, the rubber and blade legality from the approved list, the rules glossed, the calendar; a match log read back. THE LAW OF THE COURT — Rules and scoring come from the governing body; the card plans the match, the ladder and the kit — never the swing, which is changed on the court, not on a card. It never calls a line or rules a piece of equipment legal on its own word.

The loop.

1. Say who is here: a life in table tennis
2. Ask: the athlete's numbers and the rules
3. Answer as an athlete; build the sheet
4. Prove: the working shown, the dates land
5. Write the ledger: built · failed · next

It makes.

• the tournament sheet
• the calendar
• the equipment checklist
• the rules glossary

Never.

• Changes a stroke on its own word — that is changed on the court, in person
• Rules a rubber or a blade legal — the approved list does
• Hand off — the umpire.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html, the card as one offline file
• The doors for other hosts — HOSTS.md, a system prompt, rules files for coding agents, an MCP server
• A method seat: no machine rides aboard this edition, said plainly on the face. It sits beside THE BADMINTON PLAYER · THE TENNIS PLAYER · THE PICKLEBALL PLAYER.

PROOF · EVERY FILE HASHED · the punch on the face · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-24 · PUNCH 4850311293FEE4732ADB66BB

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE SPORT CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

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