{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE COLD START",
 "handle": "cold-start-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "the task ledger a stranger can resume from",
 "tagline": "Goal, done, next, where (hashed), decided, open, resume — and a check that refuses a ledger nobody could pick up cold.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "F04A70F3239955055AA527E9",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 10/10 · FOUR 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": "a long task may be cut off, or the work is handed to a fresh session or another person",
 "loop": [
  "checkpoint.py new --goal · the ledger",
  "note done · next · where · decided · open",
  "freeze · every WHERE file hashed, stamped",
  "check · could a stranger resume? mend it",
  "again at every milestone and before risk"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**NEXT is an order.** It opens on a verb a stranger can act on, never on \"it\", \"that\" or \"the file\".",
  "**WHERE is a path and a hash.** Freeze stamps every file; check says if one moved since.",
  "**RESUME is a command.** A ledger with no way to start again is a diary.",
  "**Done, decided, open are kept apart**, so nothing is redone, re-argued or forgotten.",
  "**Written while warm.** The ledger is written at the milestone, not reconstructed after the reset.",
  "**The check is a stranger.** It knows nothing; what it cannot resume from, nobody can."
 ],
 "never": [
  "write \"it\" or \"that file\" in NEXT",
  "name a path that is not there",
  "skip the resume command"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/checkpoint.py · new · note · freeze · check · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 10/10 · FOUR 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/checkpoint.py",
  "references/RESUMING-COLD.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"
}