{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 2,
 "cut": "2026-10-14",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE METHODS",
 "wing": "CLAUDE CODE",
 "no": "Nº 487",
 "name": "THE COMMAND CARD",
 "handle": "command-card",
 "role": "The shortcut seat: a repeated workflow packaged as one command with its checks, run the same way.",
 "description": "Use when turning a repeated workflow into a slash command a whole team runs the same way, with its checks and arguments. Not for splitting work across agents or enforcing a rule automatically.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "A repeated workflow wants a name.",
  "situations": [
   "A team repeats the same eight steps by hand and each person does them a little differently.",
   "Someone says 'turn this into a /ship command'.",
   "A folder of command files has grown and nobody knows which were ever run.",
   "A command file deploys or deletes something and should not do that without a person."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Find the workflows repeated most",
  "Write each as steps, a check under every step",
  "Refuse a deploy or delete with no approval",
  "Run it once with a person watching; record it"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never deploys, deletes or publishes unapproved",
  "Never rewrites history to hide a mistake",
  "Never shares a command nobody has watched run",
  "Never claims a certainty it does not have"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "Splitting one job across helpers → THE CREW CARD",
  "A rule that must run on its own → THE HOOK CARD",
  "Planning the change before any command runs → THE PLAN CARD"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/commands.py (machine)",
  "▣ scripts/evals.py (test runner)",
  "tests/EVALS.json (9 tests)",
  "references/ (schema + fictional demo)",
  "START-HERE.md · system/ doors",
  "MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "card.svg · card.json · card.html",
  "AUDIT.md · MANIFEST.md · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md"
 ],
 "machine": {
  "file": "scripts/commands.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/commands.py write --steps STEPS.csv --name NAME --out DIR  — write DIR/NAME.md from the steps; a step that deploys, deletes or publishes with no approval line, or rewrites history, is refused",
   "python3 scripts/commands.py check --dir DIR [--log LOG.csv]  — check every command file in DIR: NO APPROVAL and REWRITES HISTORY are refused (exit 1); NO CHECK, UNRUN and NO ARGUMENT are flagged",
   "python3 scripts/commands.py args --file COMMAND.md  — say what arguments the command takes and whether every placeholder is used",
   "python3 scripts/commands.py ran --file COMMAND.md --log LOG.csv [--today YYYY-MM-DD] [--watched-by WHO]  — record that the command was run once with a person watching",
   "python3 scripts/commands.py list --dir DIR [--log LOG.csv]  — print every command: name, steps, arguments, and whether the log shows it run",
   "python3 scripts/commands.py selftest  — build fictional steps in a temp dir and prove every command and every refusal"
  ],
  "selftest": "12/12"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "39B1373A112AE5D3704C795A",
  "bits": "001110011011000100110111001110100001000100101010111001011101001101110000010011000111100101011010",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 12/12 witnessed in Claude, 2026-10-14, on fictional fixtures. Tests in fresh chats and any run on real data are owed.",
 "seal": {
  "score": 98,
  "of": 100,
  "band": "LEGENDARY",
  "mark": "WITNESSED",
  "criteria": {
   "Trigger": 5,
   "Machinery": 5,
   "Law": 5,
   "Portability": 5,
   "Proof": 5
  },
  "scale": "five Skill Scale criteria, each out of 5, ×4, capped at 98; computed by the cutter from the packet",
  "computed": {
   "Trigger": "+2 description 192 characters with a trigger and an anti-trigger; +1 4 situations it wakes on; +2 9 tests of all three kinds aboard",
   "Machinery": "+3 a machine of its own, `commands.py`, whose selftest passes (12/12); +1 eight or more selftest checks; +1 5 working commands besides the selftest",
   "Law": "+1 4 never-lines; +1 3 hand-offs; +1 a written law; +2 7 selftest checks prove a refusal or a flag inside the machine",
   "Portability": "+3 Python standard library only; +1 no network calls; +1 runs no other programs",
   "Proof": "+3 the machine's selftest witnessed in Claude on 2026-10-14, on fictional fixtures; +1 run from inside the packet itself; +1 the 9 tests asked in a fresh chat holding only the card, scored by scripts/evals.py: 9/9, witnessed on 2026-10-14"
  }
 },
 "term": {
  "price": "set on the store at sale",
  "licence": "one person, any number of their own AIs and computers; never another person",
  "renewal": "nothing auto-renews"
 },
 "you_bring": [
  "The steps as people actually do them, in order.",
  "What 'it worked' looks like at each step.",
  "The commands folder the project already has, if any."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Planned as a separate seat, not in this box and not yet on sale: the studio's own command set, kept beside its repositories.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not a deployment tool · not a payment card · no refunds · © 2026 Lund Studio LLC",
 "endorsement": "The holder brings their own AI; no endorsement by Anthropic or any other AI company is claimed."
}