{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 2,
 "cut": "2026-10-14",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE METHODS",
 "wing": "CLAUDE CODE",
 "no": "Nº 488",
 "name": "THE CREW CARD",
 "handle": "crew-card",
 "role": "The subagent seat: work carved into briefs, each helper owning its files, every report reviewed.",
 "description": "Use when splitting work across helper agents: who owns which files, which tools each gets, how each reports, and the review before any merge. Not for planning the change or undoing what agents did.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "Work is being split across helpers.",
  "situations": [
   "A job is too big for one session and someone wants several helpers on it.",
   "The helpers keep stepping on each other's files.",
   "Someone is writing a subagent brief or definition and wants it to hold.",
   "Reports have come back from helpers and someone has to decide what merges."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Decide whether to split at all",
  "Carve the work into briefs with owned files",
  "Give each helper the fewest tools it needs",
  "Review every report before anything merges"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never puts two helpers on one file",
  "Never gives every helper every tool",
  "Never lets a helper merge its own work",
  "Never claims a certainty it does not have"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "Planning the change before anyone starts → THE PLAN CARD",
  "Undoing what the helpers did → THE CHECKPOINT CARD",
  "A workflow one person repeats → THE COMMAND CARD"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/crew.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/crew.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/crew.py carve --work WORK.csv --out DIR  — write DIR/<helper>.md briefs from the breakdown; SAME FILE and FULL PERMISSIONS are refused (exit 1)",
   "python3 scripts/crew.py check --work WORK.csv  — check the breakdown without writing: collisions, permissions, NO DONE-WHEN, NO FILES",
   "python3 scripts/crew.py decide --work WORK.csv  — say whether to split at all: one helper with everything is not a crew, and prints DO NOT SPLIT when the work is one file",
   "python3 scripts/crew.py review --work WORK.csv --reports REPORTS.csv --out REVIEW.md  — read each helper's report against its brief; a report with no listed files or no proof line is NOT DONE",
   "python3 scripts/crew.py list --work WORK.csv  — print every helper with its files and tools",
   "python3 scripts/crew.py selftest  — build a fictional breakdown in a temp dir and prove every command and every refusal"
  ],
  "selftest": "13/13"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "E6E58CD687ED43F11DBE5C5E",
  "bits": "111001101110010110001100110101101000011111101101010000111111000100011101101111100101110001011110",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 13/13 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 197 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, `crew.py`, whose selftest passes (13/13); +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 8 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 work, broken into parts a person can name.",
  "The files each part touches.",
  "The tools the helpers may use, by name."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Planned as a separate seat, not in this box and not yet on sale: the crews the studio runs on its own builds, briefs and all.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not a guarantee of merge safety · 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."
}