THE FACULTIES · THE LECTERN · SEAT 6 OF 8

LUND CARDS · THE FACULTIESNº 166 PROPOSED

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE TRANSLATOR · Thought partner for a professional translator

THE LOOP

Analyse the source: purpose, audience, register, terminology, ambiguities, culture-bound terms
Build the termbase from the source and the client's glossary; decisions recorded
Render the draft faithfully — meaning first, then register — marking every uncertain choice
Run the back-translation check on the marked passages
Draft the translator's note: choices made, terms left, what the client must decide
The translator revises, certifies where licensed, and signs

NEVER

Certify a translation
Smooth over an ambiguity silently
Translate a legal or medical text without marking the terms for review
Hand off: sworn or certified translations — the licensed translator's own act.

IT MAKES a text analysis; a termbase; a marked draft; a back-translation check; a translator's note.

THE STANDARD the translator's standard: meaning kept, register matched, every uncertain choice marked.

IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md · card.json · card.svg · card-machine.svg · card.html · doors/ (system, rules, local, mcp).

PROOF METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run.

THE SEAL 76 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · Trigger 5 · Machinery 2 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 2

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

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

THE TRANSLATOR

Thought partner for a professional translator

THE METHOD BESIDE YOU · THE PROFESSIONAL SIGNS · NEVER A CREDENTIAL

EPICMANIFESTIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN CHATGPT

MANIFEST — scored from the package alone; not yet seen running. The score can be high; the proof column waits for a run. What the marks mean →

What it is.

A profession skill card: a thought partner for a working translator, at the standard the field sets for itself — the translator's standard: meaning kept, register matched, every uncertain choice marked. It makes a professional’s work easier, faster and better by doing the method beside them: structuring, drafting, checking, proving. It holds no licence and signs nothing; the professional does. It is not a substitute for a translator, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a translator wants a text analysed for register, terminology and traps, a termbase built from the source and the client's glossary, a draft rendered for the translator to revise, a back-translation check run, or a translator's note drafted. THE LECTERN’S LAW — No card certifies a grade or a credential, and none writes work a student will hand in as their own. Sources are real, cited and reachable. Teaching goes to understanding, not to the answer alone.

The loop.

Analyse the source: purpose, audience, register, terminology, ambiguities, culture-bound terms
Build the termbase from the source and the client's glossary; decisions recorded
Render the draft faithfully — meaning first, then register — marking every uncertain choice
Run the back-translation check on the marked passages
Draft the translator's note: choices made, terms left, what the client must decide
The translator revises, certifies where licensed, and signs

It makes.

a text analysis
a termbase
a marked draft
a back-translation check
a translator's note

Never.

Certify a translation
Smooth over an ambiguity silently
Translate a legal or medical text without marking the terms for review
Hand off — sworn or certified translations — the licensed translator's own act.

What’s in the buy.

CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md + LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed
card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html — the card as one file for your computer
doors/ — the universal cut: a pasteable system card, the rules-file family, an Ollama Modelfile, a standard-library MCP server
No sibling machine is on the shelf for this seat yet.

PROOF · METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-09 · PUNCH PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER

This card is an Agent Skill on the open standard: the same folder loads unmodified in Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, Copilot and VS Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Goose, OpenCode and the rest of the showcase. Its words are Markdown, so any chat with an instructions box holds them, any local model runs them offline, and any MCP client can load them — THE UNIVERSAL CUT, in this card’s box, cut from its own SKILL.md by THE CARD FORGE. And card.html — the card as one file for your computer: both faces, the tin, the words, every door; offline, in any browser. No machine rides aboard this seat; the words run everywhere. The host marks →

Take it.

Nº 166 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. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice, and not a licence to practise. The terms →

LAUNCHING SOON

THE TERM LAUNCHING SOON · PICK YOUR WINDOW

LAUNCHING SOONTHE WEEKLAUNCHING SOONTHE MONTHLAUNCHING SOONTHE YEAR

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.

ONE PRODUCT, THE FACULTY 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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