{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE BRIEF CARD",
 "handle": "brief-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "the hand-off brief, checked before it goes",
 "tagline": "Goal, done-when, ruled out, read first, scope, answer shape, do not touch — seven parts, scored, the missing ones named.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "389064E1C009D2FA977DDA18",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 11/11 · THREE COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "wakes": "someone is about to hand work to another agent or asks whether a brief is good enough to send",
 "loop": [
  "brief.py template · the seven parts",
  "fill it from the work, not from memory",
  "check · score, missing parts, vague words",
  "mend what is named; check again",
  "cut · the one-screen brief; send that"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Seven parts, every time.** A brief missing a part is not shorter; it is a guess the receiver makes for the sender.",
  "**Done-when is a test.** A number, a file, a command that passes. \"When it works\" is not a test.",
  "**Paths, not hints.** READ FIRST names files and links; \"the relevant docs\" sends the receiver searching.",
  "**Out is written down.** The scope line says what is out; that line stops the receiver rebuilding the world.",
  "**Vague words are named.** \"Clean up\", \"as needed\", \"etc\" are flagged and rewritten before sending.",
  "**The score is the shape.** A brief can score 100 and ask for the wrong thing; the sender owns the wisdom, the card owns the form."
 ],
 "never": [
  "send a brief with no done-when test",
  "name \"the relevant files\" instead of paths",
  "let a pronoun stand with nothing before it"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/brief.py · template · check · cut · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 11/11 · THREE commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/brief.py",
  "references/THE-SEVEN-PARTS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}