{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE DESCRIPTION CARD",
 "handle": "description-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "the words a router reads to wake a skill",
 "tagline": "Eight checks on a skill description, a draft from the body, and the pairs in a set that wake on the same words.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "578AFAE38C8E4071684DDCFB",
 "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": "a skill wakes at the wrong time, or someone writes or reviews a SKILL.md description",
 "loop": [
  "describe.py lint · the eight checks",
  "draft · from the body, if there is none",
  "write the Use-when in the person's words",
  "collide · the pairs that share too much",
  "THE TRIGGER TEST CARD proves it on prompts"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**The description is the only thing the router reads.** Every word in it is a routing word; every word not in it is unreachable.",
  "**Third person, what it does, first.** \"Checks a brief…\" — the first verb is the first match.",
  "**Use when, in their words.** The ask as a person says it, not the feature as the builder names it.",
  "**Vague words match everything** and therefore nothing: powerful, various, helps with — out.",
  "**Twelve distinctive words** or the router cannot tell this skill from the next; collide names the pairs.",
  "**The draft is a start**, never the end: the Use-when clause is written by someone who has heard the ask."
 ],
 "never": [
  "open a description on \"this skill helps\"",
  "leave out when to use it",
  "let two skills share a description"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/describe.py · lint · draft · collide · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 10/10 · THREE 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/describe.py",
  "references/THE-EIGHT-CHECKS.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"
}