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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE CUT LIST",
 "handle": "cut-list-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "what every turn pays for; what no run used",
 "tagline": "Tokens per file and per section, every turn; the sections no transcript ever touched; a trimmed copy with the saving.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "58DC7905B5475DA9002D4242",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 10/10 · 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 asks what the always-on files cost every turn, or what could be cut from them",
 "loop": [
  "budget.py measure · tokens, file by file",
  "unused · against a month of transcripts",
  "read the cut list; a rare rule may earn it",
  "trim --out · a copy, never the original",
  "run on the copy a week; then replace"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Every turn pays for every line.** What is loaded always is read always; the cost is the file times the turns.",
  "**A count, not a tokenizer.** Words × 1.3 and characters ÷ 4, the higher kept — the same error on every file, so the order holds.",
  "**Unused is where to look, not what to delete.** A section no transcript touched is a question for the person who wrote it.",
  "**Trim to a copy.** The original stays; the trimmed file runs for a week before it replaces anything.",
  "**Stop words are not evidence.** A section is used when its distinctive words appear, not when \"the\" does.",
  "**Say the saving in tokens a turn**, because that is the unit the bill is in."
 ],
 "never": [
  "delete a section on the count alone",
  "call the estimate a tokenizer: it is a count",
  "trim the original in place"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/budget.py · measure · unused · trim · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 10/10 · THREE commands on the record",
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  "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/budget.py",
  "references/WHAT-A-TURN-COSTS.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"
}