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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE COMPUTE BUDGET CARD",
 "handle": "compute-budget-card",
 "number": "Nº 1173",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "HORIZON TWO",
 "role": "energy per task, reported and capped",
 "tagline": "The energy each AI task uses, added up from a usage log and the owner's own figures, reported per task and per day, and held to a budget with a warning before the cap; a missing figure stays unknown.",
 "sigil": "CB",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "E7EBB48A4AB9723A2CBCCC6E",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · 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",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks how much energy their AI use takes, or wants an energy budget for agents",
 "loop": [
  "sheet · the owner's figures, sourced",
  "log each task: tokens or GPU-seconds",
  "report · Wh per task, per day",
  "cap · OK, WARN, OVER or UNKNOWN",
  "estimate · a job, before it runs"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**The owner's figures.** Every figure comes from a source the owner names, with its date; a sheet without them is refused.",
  "**Unknown stays unknown.** A model or GPU with no figure is reported as unknown and never guessed.",
  "**Plain sums.** Tokens × Wh per 1,000 ÷ 1,000, or watts × seconds ÷ 3,600, times the overhead: watt-hours, with the working shown.",
  "**Warned before the cap.** WARN from the warning line and OVER past the cap; UNKNOWN is never OK.",
  "**Per task and per day.** Both are reported, and both can be capped.",
  "**Arithmetic, not a meter.** The totals are as good as the figures, and every run names where the figures came from."
 ],
 "never": [
  "invent a provider's figure",
  "fill in a figure that is missing",
  "call an estimate a measurement"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/computebudget.py · sheet · report · cap · estimate · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
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  "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/computebudget.py",
  "references/THE-COMPUTE-BUDGET.md",
  "references/HORIZON-TWO.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"
}