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  "name": "THE BOT BUILDER CARD",
  "number": "PROPOSED",
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  "sigil": "bot",
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  "role": "the maker seat · your own focused AI bot, built and tested",
  "tagline": "ONE JOB · SAYS IT IS AN AI · TESTED BEFORE IT TALKS TO ANYONE",
  "honest_line": "It builds a focused bot on a model you already use — Claude, GPT, Gemini or an open model. It does not make a new model, and a narrow bot is not meant to match a frontier model at everything; it is meant to do one job well.",
  "wakes": [
    "someone wanting their own AI bot, assistant or helper",
    "a support, booking, club, shop or study bot",
    "a system prompt that is not working",
    "testing a bot before people use it"
  ],
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    "WRITE BOT.md",
    "LINT",
    "BUILD",
    "TEST",
    "SHIP",
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    "a bot that claims to be a person",
    "a promise no model can keep",
    "a bot shipped untested"
  ],
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    "One bot, one job. A narrow bot done well beats a broad one done badly.",
    "The whole bot lives in one plain file, BOT.md: the job, who it is for, the voice, always, never, when to hand off, what it knows, and its limit.",
    "It says it is an AI whenever anyone asks. A bot told to pass as a person fails the lint.",
    "It answers from what it was given, and says \"I don't know\" when the answer is not there. No invented prices, policies or links.",
    "No promise a model cannot keep: not \"always right\", not \"any question\", not \"guaranteed\".",
    "It is tested before it talks to anyone: at least six tests, including ones it must refuse, run again after every change.",
    "It hands people to a person when they are upset, at risk, or ask for one.",
    "Ship it where it fits — a Claude Project, a custom GPT, a Gem, or a small page in front of an API with the key kept on a server, never in the page."
  ],
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    "the machine · botsmith.py · 9/9",
    "references · THE-METHOD by hand",
    "START-HERE · TIN · MY-LEDGER",
    "THE-CLAUSES · LICENSE-NOTE",
    "the doors · HOSTS · system prompts",
    "ten tests · faces · audit · witness"
  ],
  "score": null,
  "tier": null,
  "layer": null,
  "score_line": "NOT SCORED HERE · THE SEATING GIVES THE SCORE",
  "proof": "MACHINE ABOARD · SELFTEST 9/9 · 10 TESTS · WITNESSED ON REAL WORK",
  "cut": "2026-10-03",
  "from": "his word on Oct 3 2026 — 'build all those you listed. and this one too'",
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      "Writes the whole bot in one plain file, compiles its system prompt, catches the faults that make bots fail, and grades its answers against tests."
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